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USOC RAISES ANTI-DOPING FUNDING BY NEARLY 25%

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The U.S. Olympic Committee has approved a nearly 25% funding increase to the country’s antidoping agency, choosing money over words in an effort to fix a worldwide system that CEO

Scott Blackmun says is broken. The USOC board approved the increase starting next year from $3.7 million to $4.6 million annually for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which is tasked with testing U.S. athletes and internatio­nal competitor­s who train here.

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