\u201cWidely considered the most respected chemist in the sports anti-doping community\u2026 In a field in which testers have struggled to keep up with the innovations of cheaters, Catlin, 68, has been credited with nearly a dozen major testing discoveries and busts over the last decade, making him the most feared scientist among athletes who cheat with performance-enhancing drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n
— Washington Post, March 13, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cDon H. Catlin\u2026 founded the UCLA\u2019s Olympic drug-testing laboratory in 1982 and built it into the busiest such facility in the world\u2026 One of the world\u2019s leading authorities in sports doping\u2026 As lab director (at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory), Catlin notched numerous milestones in the field of sports doping, notably his identification in 2003 of tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a \u2018designer steroid\u2019 illicitly dispensed to athletes by the notorious Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, or BALCO.\u201d<\/p>\n
— Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cCatlin\u2026 has been at the forefront of the anti-doping battle movement for a quarter-century\u2026 He has made some of the biggest gains in the world against cheaters in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n
— USA Today, updated March 4, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Don Catlin (is) one of the world\u2019s leading anti-doping experts. Catlin has developed numerous tests to detect performance-enhancing drugs and helped expose hundreds of cheating athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n
— The Associated Press, March 14, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n
“Dr. Don Catlin is one of the world’s foremost drug testing experts.”<\/p>\n
Bob Costas,”Costas Now” (Show #13)
\nHBO Sports, July 24, 2007<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong the world\u2019s pre-eminent anti-doping scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n
— ESPN.com, updated May 23, 2008<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cSome call Dr. Don Catlin\u2026 the father of drug testing in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n
— New York Times, September 18, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n
Chicago Tribune Sportsman of the Year – 2003<\/p>\n
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