Clean Kids Program
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For Immediate Release
Friday, April 3, 2009
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Contact:
Jill Geer
USA Track & Field
Director of Communications
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Win With Integrity - Clean Kids Program Announced for 2009
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USA Track & Field will continue its youth-focused anti-doping efforts in 2009 by continuing educational outreach efforts
and, for the first time, conducting in-competition drug testing at
youth championship events. The Win With Integrity - Clean Kids Program
is a partnership with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and is tied
to USATF's Win With Integrity youth outreach program.
In
2008, USATF worked with USADA to distribute educational materials on
drug testing and other anti-doping information to youth athletes at
USATF's three youth national championship events. Additionally,
athletes in the Youth, Intermediate, and Young divisions were required
to view USADA's Doping Control Process video, which highlights the
processes and procedures that occur during an in-competition drug test.
In 2009, USATF will continue to provide educational materials to
athletes and has created a new Win With Integrity - Clean Kids Program
web page specific to enhancing the educational outreach on the
anti-doping initiative.
"'Clean Kids' is critical to our mission of eradicating performance enhancing drugs
from our sport and positively impacting society as a whole," said USATF
CEO Doug Logan. "If we can help these young athletes understand that
using drugs is an unethical choice that is wrong for them, wrong for
the sport and wrong for their health, then we have taken one step
forward in this fight."
In 2009, drug testing will be conducted at the World Youth Trials and USA Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Ypsilanti, Mich.; USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships in Greensboro, N.C.; and the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country
Championships in Reno, Nev. Athletes in the Intermediate and Young
divisions will be subject to drug testing conducted by USADA.
To learn more about the Win with Integrity - Clean Kids Program visit www.usatf.org/youth.
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About USA Track & Field
USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body
for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the
United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports,
some of the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high
school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30
million adult runners in the United States.
For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org
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