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Retiring means you're no longer available for USADA testing.

helltoupee said:
You may be right, but there is also the fact that he is in Iceland. Not sure how many testers are in Iceland, and if there aren't, that would play into the fact that since he was supposed to be coming to Vegas for the promo's, USADA would test him then, hence McGregor being informed by his team that he may test dirty.
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Nah, doesnt work like that.. USADA dont test someone because they are in a certain place... and Nevada is no more convenient to USADA than anywhere else.. Usada are based in Colorado, their main lab SMRTL is based in Salt Lake City, so Nevada is no more convenient than say, Tampa, or Washington, or Los Angeles. I dont know why people think that you are somehow more likely to get tested in Nevada..

I think people think because historically NSAC did testing in Nevada that somehow if you are in Nevada you are more likely to be tested, when that isnt the case.

USADA decide when someone will be tested, then, when they put the date in it tells them where they will be, and they in turn notify either the collection agency in teh US, or they notify their WADA partner in the relevant place and they notify the collection agency.

In Iceland that partner would be the Iceland NOC (National Olympic Comittee) as they oversee testing there.

The main NOC office and their headquarters in Iceland is Rejkavik. Gunnar is listed as living in Rejkavik, Gunnars gym Mjölnir MMA is in Rejkavic

So actually, if anything, being in Iceland is even more test friendly for USADA as far as McGregor goes because the Gymn, Gunnars home, the main headquarters of Icelandic andit doping are all in the same city.

Granted there is no WADA lab in Iceland, but there are WADA labs in Sweden, Norway, Finland so its not complicated to move the samples, certainly no more complicated than flying samples from say Miami, to Salt Lake City, in fact the distance might even be shorter.
 
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The logistics behind gathering fighters' piss are astounding.
 
In fact, if we really want to get picky... Its only a ten minute drive from the head office of Icelandic Anti Doping (NOC) to Gunny's gym.

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Colorado to Vegas is 800 miles... Granted USADA wouldnt travel from Colorado, they would send a local collection agency, but you get my point....

Iceland would be a shitty hiding place

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OrigFan255 said:
Those are extreme cases slick....I have had them myself and behind that little circle that georgy has is a developing mass, aka gyno....If you ain't had it, stopped looking at pictures for references
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Show me an action shot before and after not an edited pic from the ufc website .. He's always looked the exact same
 
OrigFan255 said:
Those are extreme cases slick....I have had them myself and behind that little circle that georgy has is a developing mass, aka gyno....If you ain't had it, stopped looking at pictures for references
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Ufc 79 bro puffy nipples not gyno ... And if he had been taking steroids since then it would be worse due to the heightened estrogen levels. Also when u inject test your buddy stops producing it on its own and the higher levels of test will cause u to produce more estrogen so if it's true what u say then there in no physical way Gsp would look the way he doesn now and he would have had to have surgery. Just saying.
Since you're an expert on the subject I'm sure u can vouch for what I wrote.
If you've ever done steroids you would know how hard it is to hold that muscle mass and it's not like u can shoot up for 8 years straight. Anyone who's done steroids knows the battles, blow up shrink down blow up shrink down. Gsp looks the same for the last 12 years and it's not like he hides from interviews or doesn't post videos.

Be real then bring this shit here
 
Giovanefugazza said:
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His allegedly HGH gut always intrigued me.
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That's not a HGH gut. HGH gut doesn't exist. There's no evidence HGH causes your internal organs to grow to such an extent. Think how huge his stomach must be if that was caused by unchecked organ growth.

If people who were claimed to have "HGH" gut actually had their organs grow to such an extent they would be very very ill. They don't know the cause but bloating (in GSP's case from cutting 20+ pounds) is the likely cause, not melon size stomachs.
 
subhuman trash said:
Conor will retire, start PEDs, and then right before UFC 200, he'll stop and test clean. He's been accused of this before.
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“If Conor McGregor is truly retired, then the belt is vacant. The other thing is that if Conor McGregor is truly retired he would have to take four months off before he could— it would take four months to come back because of USADA. You can’t just say you’re retired and then not have random drug testing for however long you’re out and then decide ‘Oh, well I’m going to come back now’.”

http://entimports.com/2016/04/white...-months-of-drug-testing-before-he-can-return/
 
politozx7r said:
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Ufc 79 bro puffy nipples not gyno ... And if he had been taking steroids since then it would be worse due to the heightened estrogen levels. Also when u inject test your buddy stops producing it on its own and the higher levels of test will cause u to produce more estrogen so if it's true what u say then there in no physical way Gsp would look the way he doesn now and he would have had to have surgery. Just saying.
Since you're an expert on the subject I'm sure u can vouch for what I wrote.
If you've ever done steroids you would know how hard it is to hold that muscle mass and it's not like u can shoot up for 8 years straight. Anyone who's done steroids knows the battles, blow up shrink down blow up shrink down. Gsp looks the same for the last 12 years and it's not like he hides from interviews or doesn't post videos.

Be real then bring this shit here
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Go ahead, deny factual pictures. I can't argue with someone who cannot see evidence.
 
Retirement does take you out of the testing pool, and all that is required is literally an email, fax or letter to the UFC.

I'm not suggesting that is at all the case here - I think its likely we are seeing a dispute over money.

But it did bring to light the somewhat absurd notion that you can get out of the testing pool almost immediately by simply shooting over an email that announces your retirement.

If I were an athlete on PEDS and had reasonably good resources, I would pay for my own lab work. If things look bad, and I knew a series of tests were eminently coming, I would retire to get out of the testing pool. With 2 year bans as the baseline it would make sense to pull such a move.

At a minimum you should stay in the testing pool for 6 months after retirement.
 
FlyingKimurabar said:
After pouring over the details of the USADA paperwork, they've highlighted three potential loopholes for fighters still looking to stay on the juice in this new, harsher reality. The first potential loophole, retirement. As stated in section 5.7.1:

"An Athlete who gives notice of retirement to UFC, or has otherwise ceased to have a contractual relationship with UFC, may not resume competing in UFC bouts until he/she has given UFC written notice of his.her intent to resume competing and has made him/herself available for Testing for a period of four months before returning to competition. UFC may grant an exemption to the four-month written notice rule in exceptional circumstances or where the strict application of that rule would be manifestly unfair to an Athlete."

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/6/2...s-usada-rules-retirement-steroid-use-mma-news
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I've noticed. Why do you think GSP always retires instead of taking time off to rehab his injuries?
 
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His elbow looks really funny. There's this thing called Palumboism in bodybuilding where the trunk is bloated and the arms shrink with weird looking elbows. It's been speculated that HGH causes the limbs to grow so the arm muscles are stretched out.

Look at this guy's elbows:
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IntelligenceQuo said:
Barnett was super ripped wasn't he.
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It's funny how people who know nothing about ped's think they make u look like superman.
A healthy diet and lots of weights make u look like superman. Barnett is the perfect example of doing steroids and yes it helped his performance but ate like shit so he had some fat on him
 
zephid said:
That could make sense if it wasn't for the fact that GSP wanted to do WADA testing for his fight with Hendricks.
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Not only wanted it but did it, all while Hendricks who accused Him of using steroids opted out.
 
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