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Tygart

American  
[tahy-gert] / ˈtaɪ gərt /

noun

  1. a river in E West Virginia, flowing N and joining the West Fork River to form the Monongahela River. 160 miles (257 km) long.


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However, the US Anti-Doping Agency's Tygart told the BBC as long as an athlete passes doping tests to qualify for the Olympics, there's nothing to stop them from taking part.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“As we have repeatedly said, for all of the obvious reasons, the Enhanced Games or any other open competition is a bad idea,” Tygart said in comments emailed to Agence France-Presse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

“He was a towering legend,” Travis T. Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said in an interview.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024

“Things are not as they are being portrayed — to say that Russian athletes have been held to the same standards as other athletes is a slap in the face to clean athletes,” Tygart said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

GRAFTON, a city and the county-seat of Taylor county, West Virginia, U.S.A., on Tygart river, about 100 m. by rail S.E. of Wheeling.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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