Florida taking grassroots effort to education and enforcement

[jzimlin]

Learn about this grassroots effort we are taking in Florida to pay for testing through USADA as well as provide educational resources.

The reason for starting this fund is tied to a few things.
One, riders who are winning getting the rumor mill....that has to stop.
Second, most of the positive tests in the US are masters racers. We had 2 in Florida in 2011. We want to be sure that it stops at 2.
Third is rider education. The rules and regulations regarding what is legal, what is not, what supplements contain banned ingredients, what are TUE's and a lot more needs to be more available.

We launched this 11 days ago and have raised $6500 and have had almost 70000 visits to our site.

We are listing teams and companies who donate $250 with links to their site on our "Clean Team" tab.

USADA is working closely with us because this type of effort in the US has never been done at this level from the ground up.

Visit - Learn - Share your thoughts and suggestions.

http://www.floridacleanridefund.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Florida-Clean-Ride-Fund/188070174625797

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Learn about this grassroots effort we are taking in Florida to pay for testing through USADA as well as provide educational resources.

The reason for starting this fund is tied to a few things.
One, riders who are winning getting the rumor mill....that has to stop.
Second, most of the positive tests in the US are masters racers. We had 2 in Florida in 2011. We want to be sure that it stops at 2.
Third is rider education. The rules and regulations regarding what is legal, what is not, what supplements contain banned ingredients, what are TUE's and a lot more needs to be more available.

We launched this 11 days ago and have raised $6500 and have had almost 70000 visits to our site.

We are listing teams and companies who donate $250 with links to their site on our "Clean Team" tab.

USADA is working closely with us because this type of effort in the US has never been done at this level from the ground up.

Visit - Learn - Share your thoughts and suggestions.

http://www.floridacleanridefund.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Florida-Clean-Ride-Fund/188070174625797

Chapeau - that is a really good initiative.

Also, it seems that the idea has a lot of support, and not just financially , which is very encouraging.