DENVER – The typical day for Noah Lyles now looks something like this: Drive to park. Unload weights from truck.
Sprint on grassy field. Lift. And, every now and then, head home and take a doping test. The world-champion sprinter is one of 15 American athletes who have volunteered to conduct in-home drug tests on themselves as part of a pilot program being run by the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency. With anti-doping collections severely curtailed across the globe because of the coronavirus pandemic, USADA is looking at new options, in this case by asking a group of leading Americans to give urine and small dried blood samples at home. “They asked me to do it, and I wasn't opposed to doing it,” Lyles said. “It's a way to get my drug test in.” Athlet