True-Sport-Report

Preface
Sport plays a big part in our lives—whether through informal play with
friends for fun and camaraderie, team competition as student athletes,
coaching young athletes, or as parents of children who play sports both
informally and in organized leagues. Like so many Americans, we are fans
of sport at all levels, including professional, collegiate, Olympic and Paralympic,
amateur, and youth.
In our roles at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), it is an honor to be
a part of helping to preserve the integrity of sport, inspire a commitment to
the core principles of true sport, and protect the rights of our U.S. athletes
to compete healthy and clean.
The entire U.S. Olympic movement has been praised for implementing
one of the toughest and most effective anti-doping programs in the world
and for making great strides in the advancement of all anti-doping programs.
Olympic and Paralympic athletes are recognized as some of the most positive
role models in sport today.
For the past 12 years, USADA has respectfully and faithfully served the
nearly 50 national governing bodies for Olympic, Paralympic, and Pan
American sports, as well as the tens of thousands of clean athletes who want
and need us to be successful and whose partnerships have been critical to
our success.
There is nothing quite like sport to bring people together, impart
invaluable life skills and tools, and provide unique and profound experiences
and adventures. It is undeniably one of our most beloved pastimes and
endeavors—woven into the tapestry of our culture and responsible for
countless benefits to the vast majority of Americans—in fact, so much so
that the rewards and pressures of success in sport can lead some participants
to embrace priorities that are seemingly at odds with the potential value
of sport.
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