| The USATF Youth Commitee voted to implement a drug testing program this year
at the Youth National & Junior Olympic Meets. The executive committee recently decided that this year they would use this year to educate the athletes about the drug testing procedures and begin testing next year. This year, athletes at the USATF Junior Olympics and the Youth National Championship will be shown a video on drug testing. An event will be selected and all athletes from that event will be escorted off of the track to a location to watch the video. It will incoroporate the Youth, Intermediate and Young Men/Women age divisions. The Youth division was added since for testing purposes next year, some of these athletes will be in the Intermediate age division. When testing is done next year, will not be restricted to medal winners. Athlete selection will be random by competitor number. |
