Nu har även USADA kommit med sitt straff för Brock Lesnars övertramp i samband med UFC 200. De följer NSAC linje och stänger av WWE-stjärnan i ett år för att ha testat positivt.
Den 9 juli anordnades UFC 200, en efterlängtad gala som kom att överskuggas av en hel del skandaler. Bland annat testade två atleter positivt och fick straff i efterhand. En av dem var Brock Lesnar (5-3-1 NC) som vann över Mark Hunt (12–10–1-1 NC) via enhälligt domslut.
Kort efter galan meddelade U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) att Lesnar testat positivt. I den 39-åriga slagskämpen provtagningar återfanns clomiphene och dess metaboliter 4-hydroxyclomiphene, ämnen som är strikt förbjudna enligt USADA.
Först meddelade The Nevada Athletic Commission (NSAC) att de skulle stänga av Lesnar i ett år, förändra hans vinst till en ”No Contest” samt ge honom böter som motsvarade 10% av hans lön, totalt $ 250 000 (ca. 2,2 miljoner kronor).
Nu kommer det besked från USADA att även dem stänger av Lesnar i ett år. Du kan läsa hela uttalandet här:
USADA announced today that UFC® athlete, Brock Lesnar, of the Brooklyn Park, M.N., received a one-year sanction, pursuant to the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, after testing positive for a prohibited substance on two occasions.
Lesnar, 39, tested positive for clomiphene and its metabolite, 4-hydroxyclomiphene, following an out-of-competition urine test conducted on June 28, 2016, and an in-competition urine test conducted on July 9, 2016, at UFC 200 in Las Vegas, Nev. Clomiphene is a prohibited substance in the category of Hormone and Metabolic Modulators and is prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, which has adopted the WADA Prohibited List.
Lesnar’s one-year period of ineligibility began on July 15, 2016, the date on which he was provisionally suspended by USADA, and is identical in length to the sanction imposed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) on December 15, 2016. In addition, the NSAC overturned Lesnar’s victory at UFC 200 to a no-contest.
Pursuant to the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, all UFC athletes serving a period of ineligibility for an anti-doping policy violation are required to remain in the USADA registered testing pool and make themselves available for testing in order to receive credit for time served under his or her sanction. Furthermore, if an athlete retires during his or her period of ineligibility, the athlete’s sanction will be tolled until such time the athlete notifies USADA of his or her return from retirement and once again makes him or herself available for no-advance-notice, out-of-competition testing.
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