USADA could have gotten back Brock Lesnar’s positive drug test result before UFC 200.

[WinZip]

good thing they didn't, they have ruined enough fights.

The Brock vs Hunt fight ruined itself. It didn't need help from USADA

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

I think USADA could have gotten a single test back before the fight.

 

[kflo]

Each individual samples are for different substances. You can not trace all of the banned substances/steroids/recreational drugs usage from a single sample.

The 8 tests are not administered to equal one complete test.

 

[TrainInVain]

interesting movement of the word "could" in the title by the way TS...

It only takes a simple change to make it click bait.

 

[Number1StockBroker]

they don't do that because of all the anonymity stuff and the bias involved

but maybe they could just expedite all results from ufc 200, without any distinction

Yeah, thats what they should have done, expediate all the results. Are you going to tell me they will go broke if the shell out an extra $1000 per event to do this? Hell to the fucking no.

Everyone knew that already.. but if you start to expedite some test ("high profile fighters", close to fights) but not others then you open yourself up for questions/"allegations".. If the UFC wants to expedite all I am sure they can pay USADA for that.

It is suppose to be pretty anonymous and "auto-systematic" to 100% secure "legitimacy", (integrity of the whole process). Just numbers on a cup, bag...

Edit:

That is what you open yourself up to then..

Youre not opening up yourself to nothing if you do it for all the fighters. All you will be doing is spending about $1000 more on expenses per event. You are going to tell me they will go broke if they do that? Come its obvious it was in the UFC' best interest if the results came back after the event was over.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

expediting a single sample is more suspicious than not.

 

[Team Sleep]

No sh+t , really?



you dont open yourself to nothing. some are more important and time sensitive than others.

They are all equally as important and time sensitive. Every in competition test should be taken and administered in exactly the same way. If you remove the anonymity of the sample itself at the laboratory level, with millions of dollars on the line, there could become an even larger financial motive for perhaps an underpaid technician at XYZ lab to sully a result, or perhaps cover one up and bet the farm on Jones.

USADA testing isn't about shit canning fights off of cards. It's about the chilling effect of fines, bans and the stigma that being a PED cheat label garners.

If you think that Jon Jones being pulled from UFC 200 is bigger news or more important than the fact that he will forever be tainted(pun and literal intent fully intended) that he is a drug cheat on top of being a first class asshole, you're an idiot.

USADA is working exactly as they should.

 

[lakersfan45]

 

[cheat toes]

 

[reddhelium]

Third.. from the article "An expediting request does not necessarily mean a result will come back any quicker than usual"

In some ways its right, in some ways its wrong.. but the article is quite balanced in countering both arguments...

its not QUITE as TS would have you believe from the title.. I dont think he read the entire article to be honest.

exactly. there's a reason the article was titled "could usada have gotten...", whereas TS decided to word it as fact.

 

[Cygnus-X]

You probably wouldn't do an expedited test unless there's a flag.

And, again, it for some reason can't be reiterated enough times. USADA has OTHER and BIGGER clients than the UFC as well. They have a lot of tests to do.

 

[Darkart]

Why pay $30 to get the results back before the fight? If you let him fight, test positive, then confiscate his purse you get six or seven figures.

 

[sbhatt]

There is a whole lot of stupid on this forum sometimes. He had passed several tests prior, so there was no case for 'expediting' the particular test that he popped on. It will be easier to speculate when we get actual confirmation on what he popped for specifically, and if that particular substance had been tested for in any of the prior samples. Until then, it's all random bullshit opinion/theory with no science to back it.

 

[dim_]

Meh, whatever. Hadn't he already passed a handful of tests?

And this is a crucial point.

IF, USADA chose to strategically expedite certain samples, Brock's first batches of testing coming through ok would not suggest that his next one needed fast tracking