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Erronius
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Top comment from Reddit "And then in September the UFC announces that it will no longer publicly reveal drug test failures until cases are resolved."
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iannis
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Haha, joe went HARD on promotion. After he'd finished saying "I don't know, lets talk to the science mans" about ten different ways him and Diaz spent a good 5 straight minutes talking about how awesome the event is.
I'd say the man knows who pays his bills. But I seriously doubt it's about money.
Joe wants to see some fights!
I'd say the man knows who pays his bills. But I seriously doubt it's about money.
Joe wants to see some fights!
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Finally some real science.
I'll take that over *shudder* reddit wall of text about why this kid needs drugs in his system to be able to fight.
Nobody else has this problem in the UFC. Just Jon Jones.
Reminder, many athletes including champions have used and injected steroids under USADA and been busted and completed testing without any issues.
I have a quote from Jon Jones on Ariel Helwani's yesterday "The testing is catching up". That is something a doper says. He was doped in the first fight with Gus and his T/E ratio said it all pre-USADA. The NSAC was already on him back in 2011. If you remember correctly it was flagged as a suspicious sample via ratio, but they couldn't PROVE doping at the time.
To be fair to Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier also had a suspicious T/E ratio flagging but I'm not accusing him because hes never actually tested positive for a banned substance. Daniel's T/E ratio was less suspicious than Jon Jones ratio, from what I recall.
Yes Jon the testing has caught up.
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Erronius
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Approved list of supplements?
Are people going to be using those supplements for the proscribed purpose, or as a shield for when they get caught?
JJ going to be like "I don't know how I got popped again, but I bet it's this approved supplement I'm taking"
Are people going to be using those supplements for the proscribed purpose, or as a shield for when they get caught?
JJ going to be like "I don't know how I got popped again, but I bet it's this approved supplement I'm taking"
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Sounds like an easy revenue source for the company. Done right, it's a win-win, but everyone's right to be suspicious.
Extra testing of the supplements costs money. Extra care to reduce cross contamination costs money. For an elite athletes, they may be worth the cost of doing business. However these won't be sold to UFC fighters exclusively; these products will be sold at a high markup and marketed to the average PPV buyer.
Extra testing of the supplements costs money. Extra care to reduce cross contamination costs money. For an elite athletes, they may be worth the cost of doing business. However these won't be sold to UFC fighters exclusively; these products will be sold at a high markup and marketed to the average PPV buyer.
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This seems like an incredibly retarded way to explain it. why not "imagine a picogram of sperm falling into a supermassive black hole and getting stretched to 100000 MILES!"?
The table salt comparison is fine. It's a real world, tangible thing that people understand. Who care if it's dense? Do you think it it was half the density and they said to cut it into 20 million pieces, people would suddenly think it's a large quantity?
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I think what he's getting at is relative scale. The salt is bad, because it's not talking about the scale of a cell.
The stretching out dna is a weird tabgent, and also not great.
the point is, the amount is not trivial. It's just very very small.
He hasn't tripped any other test has he? It really could just be contamination.
the policy is still not great.
The stretching out dna is a weird tabgent, and also not great.
the point is, the amount is not trivial. It's just very very small.
He hasn't tripped any other test has he? It really could just be contamination.
the policy is still not great.