USADA Case against Lance Armstrong | USADA Adjudication Process Part I | USADA ‘Results Management’

by Renée Kolar

USADA’s adjudication process relies on an American Arbitration Association (AAA)/Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitrated hearing under the modified AAA Commercial Rules. For a complete listing of USADA protocol and policy documents, visit the Resources section of the USADA website.

The first step towards the USADA adjudication process occurs when a laboratory reports an Adverse Analytical Finding on an A Sample for a Prohibited Substance (See World Anti-Doping Code for a list of prohibited substances). USADA will then notify the Athlete or other Person that they have three days in which to accept a Provisional Suspension. USADA may for good cause shorten the period by two days or lengthen it by four. United States Anti-Doping Agency, Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing § 11 (2009) [hereinafter USADA Protocol].

If the Athlete or other Person accepts a Provisional Suspension the Athlete’s case will proceed on the Anti-Doping Review Board Track. Id. at § 12. If the Athlete does not accept the Provisional Suspension proposed by USADA by the deadline and if an involuntary Provisional Suspension is not imposed, the Athlete’s case will proceed on the Expedited Track. Id.

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Renée Kolar is a summer intern at Karl Bayer, Dispute Resolution Expert . Renée is a J.D. candidate at The University of Texas School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Foreign Languages from l’Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France.