Great piece on drug testing in swimming: (MSNBC)
Though Dara can not prove she's clean, she is doing the very best next thing. She is one of a dozen volunteers - along with Michael Phelps and others - in a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency program, launched this spring, that collects blood and urine samples well beyond normal protocols.
I have said this before but at the risk of repetition say again: USADA can not afford for this program to fail.
Moreover, it's not just that Dara volunteered. It's how she volunteered.
She picked up the phone and asked to be tested.
Then, last fall, she traveled to Colorado Springs, where USADA is based, and met with chief executive Travis Tygart - one on one, without a lawyer or an agent at her side.
In that meeting with Tygart, she told him, as she recounted last week, "DNA test. Blood test. Urine test. Whatever you want to do. Just test me."
She added Tuesday on the telephone, "They can take my hair samples. I want to show everyone I am totally clean."
She said she already has undergone testing that would test anyone - last year hearing the knock of testers at her front door at 7 one morning when she was breastfeeding daughter Tessa.
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