Athletes at Navy failed drug tests

GreatAmerican
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:52:03 +0000

Cummings calls for congressional probe

Published in today’s BS:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-te.md.athletes18nov18,0,2686149.story?coll=bal-home-headlines



Naval Academy officials acknowledged yesterday that they waited more than two months to administer urine tests to five football players who admitted early last year to using steroids - a delay that experts said would have allowed any trace of the banned drug to disappear.

“I think it’s very important that we know who made the decision to test these young folks two months after we had good cause for suspecting illegal drug use,” said U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Baltimore Democrat who sits on the academy’s Board of Visitors, a civilian oversight panel. “I want to know who made the decision, why that decision was made, and I think that whatever answer that is provided should be one that every single member of the board should be very much interested in knowing.”…