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Deeja Youngquist Receives Two Year Suspension for Positive r-EPO Test The
United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced today the decision by an
independent three-member arbitration panel from the American Arbitration
Association (AAA)/North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that Deeja
Youngquist of Albuquerque, N.M., an athlete in the sport of track and field, has
committed a doping violation and imposed the minimum two-year suspension for a
first time offense.
Youngquist, 27, tested
positive for recombinant human Erythropoietin (r-EPO) during an
out-of-competition test conducted by USADA on March 16, 2004, in advance of the
2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in the Women's Youngquist, one of the
top marathoners in the U.S., did not contest the validity of the UCLA
laboratorys application of the test in the analysis of her urine sample and
received the minimum two-year suspension to take effect December 4, 2004, the
date she accepted and began serving her provisional suspension. Additionally, Youngquist forfeits all
competitive results and winnings since March 16, 2004, the date of the test,
including her eighth place finish in the Olympic Team
Trials. USA Track & Field,
the national governing body for the sport in the USADA is responsible
for managing the testing and results management process for athletes in the
A
copy of the AAA/CAS decision is available in the results management section of
the official USADA Web site
(http://www.usantidoping.org).
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