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1971) is an American lawyer and CEO of the United States Anti-Doping

Agency (USADA). He is best known for his role in exposing Lance

Armstrong's massive doping operation.

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he

attended the Bolles School, He starred on the baseball and basketball

teams; on the former, one of his teammates was future Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and in 2010

received the University's Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Tygart went on

to get his J.D. from Southern Methodist

University in 1999, graduating Order of the Coif. Prior to

joining USADA, Tygart was an athlete and associate in the sports law practice

at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO). While at HRO, Tygart worked with

individual athletes and the United States Olympic

Committee, USA Basketball, USA Swimming, USA Volleyball, and

the Pro Rodeo Cowboys' Association. Tygart is on the board of

advisors of the Taylor Hooton Foundation. Tygart became Chief Executive Officer

of USADA in September 2007. He originally joined the agency in October

2002 as director of legal affairs, later becoming senior managing director and

general counsel. He has also prosecuted cases before the American Arbitration

Association and the Court of Arbitration for

Sport on behalf of USADA. Tygart had harbored suspicions about

Armstrong for most of his tenure at USADA. A number of former members of

Armstrong's U.S. Postal

Service Pro Cycling Team had been caught doping. Having learned

about the doping that then ran rampant in the sport, Tygart found it hard to

believe that Armstrong was clean. In

June 2012, USADA accused Armstrong of doping, a charge that Armstrong ceased

trying to defend in August 2012. As a result, he was stripped of all results

from August 1, 1998 onward–including his seven consecutive Tour titles–and

banned for life from all sports whose federations followed the World

Anti-Doping Code. The latter sanction had the effect of ending his competitive

career. Armstrong filed a suit in U.S. District Court against Tygart and USADA.

When dismissing the lawsuit against 'Defendant Travis Tygart and United States

Anti-Doping Agency (collectively, "USADA")', U.S. District Judge Sam

Sparks wrote, "USADA's conduct raises serious questions about whether its

real interest in charging Armstrong is to combat doping, or if it is acting

according to less noble motives." Tygart was previously involved in the

investigation of Floyd Landis. Tygart

stated in an interview with French newspaper L'Équipe that he had received three death threats

since the beginning of the Armstrong investigation and that security had been

tightened around him by the FBI. After USADA announced that it would

strip Armstrong of all his results obtained after August 1, 1998, Tygart stated

in an interview with VeloNation: "He [Armstrong] knows all the

evidence as well and he knows the truth, and so the smarter move on his part is

to attempt to hide behind baseless accusations of process." In July 2018,

Tygart testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission in Washington, DC on the subject

of doping in sports. He was on a panel alongside Jim Walden, the attorney

for Russian Whistle-blower Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, Yuliya Stepanova, a former Russian track star, and Katie Uhlaender, a four-time member of the U.S. Skeleton team.

Tygart submitted eight pages of testimony and told the Commission he would continue

attempting to persuade Congress to address international doping.