USFF DOPING POLICY
If you’ve been anywhere around the World Championship competitions, you’ve inevitably heard fellow athletes making accusations about other athletes who they believe are doping. There are a number of reasons for these accusations which range from fear, anger, frustration, disappointment and maybe they have a first hand experience having seen others dope. Regardless of the accusations, doping of any kind is unacceptable, unfair, unsportsperson-like and just down right wrong. Either way, no one really knows if there is doping being done and the only way to prove an athlete is doping is through proper testing and procedures.
Over the last two months, CMAS International has taken a lead position on this doping matter by suspending a few athletes who tested positive. While the suspensions given are provisional and subject to further investigation, it is a step forward to help keep freediving a clean sport.
To further this cause, the US Freediving Federation has created their first ever DOPING POLICY which you can review by clicking this LINK HERE. We want to do our part by showing the rest of the community the path to a clean sport with this policy which also makes it very clear to any US athlete how things will be handled as well as the consequences they will suffer if found in possession of PEDs or having tested positive for any PEDs.
The US Freediving Federation will not tolerate anything less than a clean sport and it expects its athletes, as well as those across the world, to hold themselves to the highest standards of sport to keep the game fair for all. Anything less than is unacceptable.