LPGA Planning to Implement Drug Testing in 2008
November 22nd, 2006 by ddetox
The Ladies Professional Golf Association commissioner Carolyn Bivens said she has no knowledge of drug use among tour players. The tour still plans to start checking. The LPGA Tour said Wednesday it will begin testing players for performance-enhancing drugs in 2008, a move that makes it the first major golf tour to announce a drugtesting program. Specifics of the testing plan will be worked up over the next 6 to 9 months. The tour plans to announce the program details, including testing methods and banned substances, in the second half of the 2007 season.
Next year, the LPGA will contract with the National Center for Drug Free Sport to develop an anti-doping policy and prepare for a 2008 launch. “While we have no evidence to date that any of our players are using performance-enhancing drugs, we need to have a very clear policy and a program in place,” Bivens said. “We want to educate our members and we also want to promote fair and equitable competition.”
AP via Yahoo!News
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