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quoted from here. some other tidbits:
“In my experience as an arbitrator of hundreds of cases of doping cases, I have never heard testimony from an individual who has taken so much care to record his supplement regime in order to avoid the very problem he is now experiencing,” McLaren wrote.
Barnett did his due diligence in investigating the substance he was taking..... He also kept detailed records and preserved a sample of every supplement he took, just in case he needed to provide it as evidence later on.
He did, in the arbitrator’s view, just about everything he could reasonably be expected to do in order to prevent an anti-doping policy violation....But McLaren declined to count Barnett’s 2009 test in California against him here, on the grounds it did not meet the standards set out by the current USADA policy.
The result is something of a blueprint for other UFC fighters. Want to take supplements, but fear contamination? Then be as careful about it as Barnett was, and take every step along the way to prove it just in case you need to defend yourself some day.
it's too easy to draw parallels to the famous CSAC hearing a few weeks ago, so i won't bother.
“In my experience as an arbitrator of hundreds of cases of doping cases, I have never heard testimony from an individual who has taken so much care to record his supplement regime in order to avoid the very problem he is now experiencing,” McLaren wrote.
Barnett did his due diligence in investigating the substance he was taking..... He also kept detailed records and preserved a sample of every supplement he took, just in case he needed to provide it as evidence later on.
He did, in the arbitrator’s view, just about everything he could reasonably be expected to do in order to prevent an anti-doping policy violation....But McLaren declined to count Barnett’s 2009 test in California against him here, on the grounds it did not meet the standards set out by the current USADA policy.
The result is something of a blueprint for other UFC fighters. Want to take supplements, but fear contamination? Then be as careful about it as Barnett was, and take every step along the way to prove it just in case you need to defend yourself some day.
it's too easy to draw parallels to the famous CSAC hearing a few weeks ago, so i won't bother.
