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If he says growth hormone could be allowed if you consult the USADA, why didn't he just call them.
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Cops hate snitches, but finding and rewarding them is part of their job.
This is based on nothing but anecdotal evidence btw
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Problem with this is when people translate his interviews, they often forget the stuff he had said before when this happened. In a nutshell, before his announced fight with Hamilton, he tried absolutely everything, including cryotherapy, various massages etc. to heal his shoulder, but the only real solution was for him to rest, and that would make him miss he fight. In an act of desperation(because he's getting older and can't postpone fights no longer) he started with blood plasma therapies with added therapeutic doses of HGH. He regretted it immediately and notified the UFC.
Also, he said that this e-mail was not for USADA, but for the UFC official that told him to write him an e-mail and there will be no problem with USADA, because they normally give these exemptions, but there was no time to go through that entire process. As Mirko clearly stated, he could have said to USADA that he has 2 administrators handling his e-mails and fan pages, and that they sent that to the UFC official, because he mostly communicates in English by speaking, and that his writing of English is not at the level where he could send official or business related letters by himself without losing hours to check everything on the internet.
I'm from Croatia and by no means a hardcore Mirko fan, I also really dislike many decisions that he had made in his career and for a very long time I despised the guy for some dumb and arrogant shit he would say in his interviews. After a while, I realized that deep down he's a nice guy and that most of the dumb stuff that he had said in the past was a result of his emotional responses and typical talk that young guys have when they think they're on top of the world and unbeatable.
It was really shitty from USADA to delay giving him the test results(which were 100% clean) so he couldn't file an appeal in time.
I personally think he's clean, because he never fought like a guy that was juiced. Normally a guy that abuses peds also gains that mental edge and courage(among other things) because he feels invincible. You could clearly see how he became a much different fighter with age, especially after all his surgeries. His movement was limited, explosiveness gone, he was afraid to pull the trigger even in moments when the opponent would be wide open etc. In other words, he fought as you would expect an aging man with many wars behind him fight.
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Dude, you should talk even louder next time - that will make your posts even more valid.Thank you
Roid ragin, brah.
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Doping is when you have no injures
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Sad that there isnt a system in place just yet to give the doctors (the subject matter experts) control and discretion to prescribe the medication (I don't like how it's put on the fighters to get the exemptions). USADA should be working with the medical experts on therapies so the UFC can keep these guys fight ready, as long as it doesn't have them hopped up on PEDs while in the actual fights or taking outside of therapeutic doses of meds. Mirko was clearly wrong for not following protocol, but like I said this needs to involve the physicians directly with USADA, not the fighters who are less than trained to discuss the scientific and medical facts or relevance of the given therapy. IMO this is a trial run for USADA and they will have to adjust fire sooner rather than later or the bulk UFC roster is going to either suspended or shelved with injuries that cannot be healed in a timely manner.
USADA did fuck up here. Making it an ordeal to get growth hormone shots for joint injuries is retarding not just sports science, but advances in medicine that we should all be able to benefit from. Shit works – why is it not standard?
Answer: because the mostly useless anti-doping bureaucrats have tainted the reputation of an immensely promising branch of medicine.
And yes, they are mostly useless. Olympians run rings around them and even in MMA their tests failed to actually find Mirko's growth hormones, so they're obviously not as hot as they make out.
USADA approved!
Similarly, research into steroids would be way, way in advance of where it is now if it wasn't for all the sports fan phagottry which swirls around them, rendering research politically unpalatable.
If we could solve the issues around male fertility and the heart, we could all be fitter, stronger and more full of energy well into our Autumn years, drastically increasing the really productive portion of our lifespans and banishing most of the diseases of old age.
TRT, used responsibly
...But no, the course of human progress has to be held back decades so a bunch of idiot manchild sports fans can keep their delusions about the "integrity" of their sporting heroes, the vast majority of whom are using, while shitting on the tiny minority who are caught from a position of chumplike ignorance.
NEWSFLASH: Lance Armstrong beat every test and only got caught because fellow cyclists grassed him up – but they were only able to dish the dirt because they were all in on the trick as well.
We're long overdue for abolishing the stupid PEDs taboo and allowing modern medicine to do its thing. The gains for society far outweigh the negatives for fat-gutted babies whose chief concern is the impact this would have on sport, even though they don't compete themselves.
