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Drug Testing

By mrwhitehair29

  • Summer Olympic Games i

    Summer Olympic Games i
    • First Drug Testing at Olympic Games in Mexico

  • Montreal Olympics

    Montreal Olympics
    • Steriod Testing Conducted for the First Time at the Montreal Olympics.
    • Out of 786 drug tests perfromed, 11 tested positive.

  • NBA

    NBA
    • NBA adopted the first anti-drug policy in major professional sports.
    • all players are subject to random testing for banned substances during the start to the end of the season.
    • 1999-steriods was added to the list of banned substances

  • Fall

    Fall
    • CU started a drug testing program in the fall of 1984 for its intercollegiate student athletes.

  • CU third amendment program became effective.

    CU third amendment program became effective.
    First, added alcohol, over the counter drugs and performance enhancing substances to its list .
    Second, the term athlete was defined as students who participates with intercollegiate sports.
    Third, random (REE) rapideye examination testing was substituted for random urinalysis. resonable suspicion.
    Fourth, urine samples were to be collected within the athletic department facilities. checked for color, temperature.
    Fifth, athletes were required to give their consent to realeasing test result

  • University of Colorado v. David Derdeyn

    University of Colorado v. David Derdeyn
    • Former and current CU athletes challengs CU drug-testing program in 1986.
    • Issue was to determine whether CU drug-testing program violates the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article II, Section 7, of the Colorado Constitution.

  • Decision

    Decision
    Yes, the court decided that CU drug-testing program was unconstituional under the 4th Amendment. Agree that in the absence of coluntary consent, CU random, suspicionless urinalysis drug-testing of student athletes violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 7, of the Colorado Constitution.

  • WADA

    WADA
    • Worlds Anti-Doping Agency is established.
    • To coordinate the fight against doping in sport internationally.
    • Supported and helped government, public authorities and anybody else in fighting against doping.

  • USADA begins operation

    USADA begins operation
    • United Stated Anti-Doping Agency begins operations
    • National anti-doping organization for the olympic movement in the USA.
    • Make competition equal, to inspire true sports and protect the rigths of athletes in the Olympic & Paralympic movement in the United States.

  • WADA

    WADA
    • Annoced a drug control program for all international sports.
    • Sixty-five sports federations (covers all Olympic sports) and over fifty nations including the united states had signed this code.
    • WADA created a list of banned drugs, system for testing, and penalties for violators.
    • Before code each olympic sport operated its own drug program.

  • MLB

    MLB
    • MLB starts its first random drug-testing program in the minor league in 2001.
    • MLB Drug testing begins in MLB Spring Training Camps.
    • May 11, 2004-MLB and Players Association move all collective urine samples to (WADA). L.A.-Montreal
    • June 2004 drug testing begins under Joint Drug Agreement

  • (IOC_ Entered into Force

    (IOC_ Entered into Force
    • International Olympic Committee
    • Code led to several advantages in the global fight against doping in sports.
    • Code allowed for sanctioning in cases where there was no positive doping test, but evidence that an anti-doping rule violation has occurred. Marion Jones ws five gold medals in 2000 Olympic Games, and even though she passed every drug test she took, Dec 7, 2007 was stripped because she admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs.

  • New Jersey

    New Jersey
    • Became the first state to mandate random steroid testing for high school students. Texas and Florida are in process of doing so.
    • New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) contracted with Drug Free Sports in Kansas City, MO. Same company that does NCAA and Minor League Basebal.

  • NFL

    NFL
    • National Football League annouces stricter anti-doping policies
    • Randomly tested each week during preseason, regular and post season from 7 athletes to 10 per team.
    • 12,000 tests will happen each season.

  • Revised WADA

    Revised WADA
    • One of the main complaints was the inflexibility surrounding violations. It held athletes for all positive test, no matter how it got into their bodies.
    • First-2-year banned from competition. Second-banned for life.
    • Code provide some flexibiliy but athletes had to submit to no-notice, out of competition tests anytime, anywhere.
    • Athletes from Olympics of major sports team had to register for national testing.
    • Tell WADA; 1hr/day between 6am-11pm, 7days a week, three months in advance.