UCLA Cleans Up in the Olympics
No, not with athletes. But in case you missed it, here is an excerpt from a story in UCLA Today:
Highly regarded lab ensures that Olympic athletes are ‘clean’
Anthony Butch is not an athlete or coach, but he and his team had to undergo their own kind of Olympic time trials before the Games opened in London. Just a few weeks ago, Butch and his staff at UCLA’s Olympic Analytical Laboratory were working furiously to process hundreds of urine samples from members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. The testing had to be done quickly, since a positive result meant that the athlete would have to be replaced with an alternate. As one of only two drug-testing labs in the United States accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)), UCLA’s lab split the samples with the country’s other lab in Salt Lake City. They had 150 days in which to receive the samples, test them and submit their reports to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)…