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I will have to confirm that it passed at the closing session, but the rules committee recommended that the rule about setting American Records be amended to:

Each athlete who achieves an American Record or American Junior Record in any event recognized for a World Record by the IAAF. . . . shall submit to a doping control at the end of the event. . . . If such testing results in a doping violation, or if such testing is not conducted, USATF will not ratify this record.

I will have to try to get the full text to see if they added any provisions about meets where doping control is not present (for example, giving the athlete a certain amount of time to hunt down a tester and get tested).

As I am reading it, this would be bad for pole vaulters. How many meets in the US have doping control present and offer the pole vault? Not that many. Yes, it is ideal if our athletes break records at major meets, but that's not always how it works for field event people. Oh yeah and that pretty much screws the racewalkers.

USADA will come to you and test. This was the case when Gio and Gao broke their respectful national records at 2007 Mt. SAC Relays. We simply phoned USADA and they came out and tested the athletes within the required time period.

KLocke wrote:USADA will come to you and test. This was the case when Gio and Gao broke their respectful national records at 2007 Mt. SAC Relays. We simply phoned USADA and they came out and tested the athletes within the required time period.

That was nice of USADA to provide testing to foreign athletes.

rainbowgirl28 wrote:

KLocke wrote:USADA will come to you and test. This was the case when Gio and Gao broke their respectful national records at 2007 Mt. SAC Relays. We simply phoned USADA and they came out and tested the athletes within the required time period.

That was nice of USADA to provide testing to foreign athletes.

Well, the testing process for the two was quite lucrative for USADA. The individual test cost over $600 per athlete. For one hour of work they made around $1280

Dam that's spendy! Guess you probably wouldn't care about the cost after the glory of breaking the record.