Message from Craig Masback and Bill Roe about doping

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[quote]Dear USATF Member,

As you are aware, several doping cases involving track and field athletes, including Justin Gatlin, recently been in the news. We don’t need to tell you how serious of a concern this is for the track and field world, for USATF and even for American sports as a whole, especially given that these cases coincide the testosterone positive of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.

Since the BALCO scandal of 2003/2004, our athletes, Board of Directors, administrators, coaches and membership have worked to battle doping in our sport. USATF adopted and began to implement our Zero Tolerance policy at the Annual Meeting in 2003. Thanks to the organization uniting as one, and to the efforts of our athletes and their actions on and off the track, we were able to put the drugs issue in the background. But as we have known from the very start, drugs will never be behind us, and these cases – the first “majorâ€Â