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In the wake of all these roided stars and champions, it speaks rather loudly that GSP willingly submitted himself to VADA testing for his fight with Hendricks. A few details about the ordeal should cast light on how well GSP is looking by the second:
1) GSP openly campaigned for both him and Hendricks to take VADA testing. This included random testing, which he passed and publicly published:
http://fightmedicine.net/peds/georges-st-pierre-shares-drug-test-results-from-random-vada-testing
2) VADA and USADA are both testing organizations which test in accordance to regulations imposed by WADA strictures.
3) Hendricks refused to partake in the testing for two reasons:
(a) he said there was a conflict of interest, because GSP's photograph was in the VADA website. Well, VADA shows the pictures of high profile athletes who have willingly submitted themselves submitted to testing as part of their advertising campaign. Others have appeared there as well, including former GSP opponents.
(b) He said he wanted both to submit to WADA instead. But this is evasive nonsense, since WADA does not do testing itself, but prescribe the rules which USADA and VADA follow.
GSP still went through, tested clean, and beat Hendricks in a controversial bout. Since then, USADA made a deal to test ubiquitously the UFC roster; Hendricks has notably, as many others, changed dramatically physically and in performance.
4) Now, USADA is not VADA. But both follow WADA regulations, and if anything, VADA has the cleaner track record. Check the controversies surrounding USADA in boxing. VADA has caught more athletes in a shorter span of time, disclosed openly, even though it's considerably cheaper than USADA.
5) Hendricks' camp claimed that GSPs camp were trying to ask weird questions to Kizer and the commission, including knowledge about random testing to be done. Rodolphe posted the entire series of correspondences between him and Kizer, which revealed GSP did not want to refuse random testing, and that they agreed to whatever conditions Hendricks' camp would determine.
Here is the link:
http://www.sbnation.com/2013/9/11/4719572/georges-st-pierre-johny-hendricks-drug-testing-gsp-ufc
6) After this Hendricks overtly said that he wouldn't test unless forced to, because 'GSP might test positive and then he wouldn't get his title shot'. That's right folks.
Hendricks: "And all of a sudden he's pushing these drug tests and here it is blowing up so big, he has to take WADA, he fails, then I don't get my title shot. So that's why I'm sitting here saying I don't want the drug tests."
With all this said, GSP does not only appear as one of the unblemished champions among the greats; so is Fedor. But furthermore, he has openly gone his way to prove he was clean before shit the fan, submitting himself to a testing even more strenuous than USADA, voluntarily, while his opponent didn't.
1) GSP openly campaigned for both him and Hendricks to take VADA testing. This included random testing, which he passed and publicly published:
http://fightmedicine.net/peds/georges-st-pierre-shares-drug-test-results-from-random-vada-testing
2) VADA and USADA are both testing organizations which test in accordance to regulations imposed by WADA strictures.
3) Hendricks refused to partake in the testing for two reasons:
(a) he said there was a conflict of interest, because GSP's photograph was in the VADA website. Well, VADA shows the pictures of high profile athletes who have willingly submitted themselves submitted to testing as part of their advertising campaign. Others have appeared there as well, including former GSP opponents.
(b) He said he wanted both to submit to WADA instead. But this is evasive nonsense, since WADA does not do testing itself, but prescribe the rules which USADA and VADA follow.
GSP still went through, tested clean, and beat Hendricks in a controversial bout. Since then, USADA made a deal to test ubiquitously the UFC roster; Hendricks has notably, as many others, changed dramatically physically and in performance.
4) Now, USADA is not VADA. But both follow WADA regulations, and if anything, VADA has the cleaner track record. Check the controversies surrounding USADA in boxing. VADA has caught more athletes in a shorter span of time, disclosed openly, even though it's considerably cheaper than USADA.
5) Hendricks' camp claimed that GSPs camp were trying to ask weird questions to Kizer and the commission, including knowledge about random testing to be done. Rodolphe posted the entire series of correspondences between him and Kizer, which revealed GSP did not want to refuse random testing, and that they agreed to whatever conditions Hendricks' camp would determine.
Here is the link:
http://www.sbnation.com/2013/9/11/4719572/georges-st-pierre-johny-hendricks-drug-testing-gsp-ufc
6) After this Hendricks overtly said that he wouldn't test unless forced to, because 'GSP might test positive and then he wouldn't get his title shot'. That's right folks.
Hendricks: "And all of a sudden he's pushing these drug tests and here it is blowing up so big, he has to take WADA, he fails, then I don't get my title shot. So that's why I'm sitting here saying I don't want the drug tests."
With all this said, GSP does not only appear as one of the unblemished champions among the greats; so is Fedor. But furthermore, he has openly gone his way to prove he was clean before shit the fan, submitting himself to a testing even more strenuous than USADA, voluntarily, while his opponent didn't.
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