USADA’s recent inconsistent decision is the latest in a series of missteps by the organization. Iain Kidd lays out the pressing issues with the UFC’s anti-doping program.
News came out yesterday that Carlos Diego Ferreira has accepted a 17-month suspension from USADA for disclosing his use of 7-keto-DHEA and testing positive for ostarine. Let me contextualize that suspension, and explain how it highlights some of the major issues with the UFC’s anti-doping program.
The most recent inconsistent decision
Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator and the substance that Tim Means received a 6-month suspension for taking, after proving his ingestion was inadvertent. It’s also the substance Tom Lawlor is facing up to a two-year suspension over after he tested positive for the…
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