Usoc Passes On Testing

No-notice drug testing for U.S. Olympic-level athletes was postponed until 1997. Officials said present anti-doping rules were enough to catch cheats in the final months before the Summer Games in Atlanta.

Early this week, USOC executive director Dick Schultz, who headed the task force with former executive director Baaron Pittenger, said the no-notice testing could be implemented as soon as the plan was adopted, with a knock-on-the-door simply replacing 48-hours warning.

That time frame was rejected as too tight by the executive committee.