USADA allows recreational competitors to use steroids but only if they LOSE

[Millard]

USADA allows "recreational competitors" to use anabolic steroids (testosterone) but ONLY IF they compete in "low-level competitions" AND they must lose the race. LOL!

Prescription Steroids Get a Quiet Exemption
By FREDERICK DREIER
April 22, 2016

USADA isn’t broadcasting the news. But it has created a new exemption for masters and amateur athletes who are prescribed banned drugs. Called a Recreational Competitor Therapeutic Use Exemption, it allows masters and amateur athletes to compete in low-level competitions while taking banned substances. An athlete must prove to USADA that he or she is unlikely to actually win one of these amateur races, in addition to proving a medical need for an illicit chemical.

“Out of fairness to those non-competitive athletes, we put in place a process that allows for them to compete while still requiring a fair and reasonable review of each recreational athlete’s medical situation,” USADA said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.

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USADA received a legal challenge to its TUE procedures for testosterone in 2014 from Texas urologist Sloan Teeple. Teeple, 45, was banned for 18 months after testing positive at a local mountain bike race in 2013, where he finished in the middle of the pack.

Teeple, who was diagnosed with hypogonadism in 2005, said he applied with USADA for a TUE in 2011 and 2012, but was denied both times. When USADA denied Teeple’s third TUE application, he requested an arbitration hearing. Teeple hired sports lawyer Howard Jacobs, who has represented multiple high-profile athletes accused of doping.

“I felt that I wasn’t doing anything morally or ethically wrong,” Teeple said. “I wanted a panel of arbitrators to hear my story and decide what is right.”

USADA declined to comment on Teeple’s case. Teeple said he and Jacobs scheduled a meeting with USADA’s lawyers and three arbitrators in Austin, Texas, in July 2014. On the eve of the meeting, Teeple said, USADA asked Teeple to suspend his testosterone treatment for six weeks, and then submit blood levels along with results from an MRI of his brain.

After following the instructions, Teeple received an email in June 2015 containing a Recreational Competitor TUE.

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Jacobs, who previously represented disgraced sprinter Marion Jones and Landis in their respective doping cases, said he had never heard of the Recreational Competitor TUE before receiving the Teeple’s document from USADA.

“[USADA] told me it was something new that they had just created,” Jacobs said. “I see it as a compromise.”

Source: Prescription Steroids Get a Quiet Exemption

 

[Millard]

How recreational athletes can use anabolic steroids with USADA's blessing:

"Recreational Competitor: For the purposes of the USADA TUE Policy, a Non-National Athletewho within the last 25 years (1) has not been in the USADA Registered Testing Pool or the Registered Testing Pool of an International Federation; (2) has not represented the United States in an International Event; (3) has not won a national or regional level Competition in any sport; (4) has not finished first, second or third in an age group category of any Event sanctioned by an NGB in which fifty (50) or more competitors have been entered in that category in the sport in which they are presently competing; (5) has not won more than five hundred dollars (500.00 USD) in prize money in an Event in the sport in which they are presently competing; and (6) is not classified as a professional Athlete.

"Recreational Competitor TUE (or “RCTUE”): A Therapeutic Use Exemption for use by a Recreational Competitor for substances and/or methods prohibited at all times or in Competitions where USADA anti-doping rules apply as defined by the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the USADA TUE Policy and as limited by the terms set forth in the certificate provided to an individual who has been granted an RCTUE."

Source: http://www.usada.org/substances/tue/policy/ (Therapeutic Use Exemption TUE Policy | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA))

 

[tubesox]

Well I'm on my way to the doc with this one.

 

[Millard]

Here's the TRT doc that hired Howard Jacobs and Kevin Isern to fight USADA for the right to use steroids as a recreational competitor:

Sloan Teeple - "Teeple's Testosterone" website

Sloan Teeple, M.D. is a Board-Certified Urologist and expert in Testosterone Deficiency. He is a partner at Amarillo Urology Associates, focuses his practice on Testosterone Replacement Therapy, and was personally diagnosed with Low T in 2004. Dr. Teeple trained in urologic surgery at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana and attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He met his wife, Susan, while they both attended the University of Texas at Austin.

PRESS RELEASE

Sloan Teeple Successfully Fights For Change To Therapeutic Use Exemption Process For Recreational Athletes.

Amarillo, Texas (June 25, 2015) – Dr. Sloan Teeple, a Board-Certified Urologist and
expert in testosterone deficiency, has successfully fought for changes to the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (“USADA”) Therapeutic Use Exemption (“TUE”) process for recreational level athletes.

Several years ago, Dr. Teeple co-wrote “I'm Still Sexy So What's Up with Him? Learn How Testosterone Can Change Your Relationship” with his wife Susan, publicizing his discovery and treatment of his own testosterone deficiency issues, with the hope that his story could help others. Dr. Teeple, an avid cyclist and triathlete, applied to USADA for a TUE so that he could compete in cycling and triathlon events while using the testosterone treatment that he needs due to his documented testosterone deficiencies.

When USADA denied his TUE application in 2013, applying the strict standards that apply to elite and Olympic athletes, Dr. Teeple appealed that denial to the American Arbitration Association. Following a lengthy arbitration process, USADA adopted a new TUE process for recreational athletes like Dr. Teeple, and granted a TUE to Sloan Teeple.

As a result, Dr. Teeple no longer must choose between the testosterone treatment that he needs and entering the cycling and triathlon races that he loves. USADA’s new Recreational Competitor TUE (“RCTUE”) policy can be found at http://www.usada.org/substances/tue/policy/ (Therapeutic Use Exemption TUE Policy | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)).

In responding to the creation of this new RCTUE policy, Sloan Teeple stated as follows:

“When I wrote my book with my wife, I was hoping that it would help other men who suffered in the same way that I had suffered. My fight to use the testosterone treatment that I need and still be able to compete as a recreational athlete was also directed, at least in part, to helping other recreational athletes facing the same dilemma that I faced. While USADA’s new RCTUE process is complicated, I think it strikes the correct balance, and thank USADA for this common-sense solution to a difficult dilemma. I would also like to thank my lawyers - Kevin Isern and Howard Jacobs - for their tireless and invaluable assistance in this important fight.”

For more information, please contact Sloan Teeple, Kevin Isern or Howard Jacobs:

Sloan Teeple, M.D.
Amarillo Urology Associates
1900 Medi Park Dr.
Amarillo, TX 79106
Urologists Amarillo TX | Amarillo Urology Associates | Urinary Incontinence, Erectile Dysfunction, Prostate Cancer

Kevin Isern
Lovell, Lovell, Newsom & Isern
112 West 8th Ave, Suite 1000
Amarillo, TX 79101-2314
Phone: (806) 373-1515
http://www.lovell-law.net/home

Howard L. Jacobs
Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs
2815 Townsgate Road, Suite 200
Westlake Village, California 91361
Phone: (805) 418-9892
howard.jacobs@athleteslawyer.com
Welcome to the Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs

Source: http://www.teeplestestosterone.com/uploads/press-release-teeple.pdf

 

[Leancuisine]

Wow.

How far is this going to go to make sure the playing field is level and "fair"?

Gonna start limiting how many times a week an athlete can train or go to the gym? Limit their nutritional intake?

Athletics should be able to use AAS and PED. It's substantially less dangerous than the actual sport itself.
Medical supervision should be provided as well to those who choose to use AAS.
Athletes are going to do it, regardless of what's legal and what's not. It is their career on the line. A 9-5 isn't going to pay for their gigantic houses and equally large child support bills.
Might as well allow them guidance and supervision while they do it.