Timm Peddie is a retired professional

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and

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from the United States. He won the collegiate national track championships (1991) and the U.S. Olympic Road Trials (1992). He represented the United States in the

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Road Race, in

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and competed from 1991 through 1996, winning over 20 professional and international races. He was selected by his peers to the

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( USOC), in 1996, where he served for four years (1996-2000). He re-ignited and led the debate on externalizing drug testing from the USOC, leading to the creation of the

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), which he helped found at the end of his term, in 2000.

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