Author: Andrew Pearson / Source: MMAmania.com
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Jeff Novitsky attempted to refute comparisons between Frank Mir, Tom Lawlor and Jon Jones. Here’s the specific clip:
Its very consistent! Jon was sanctioned the first time it showed up in his system for fifteen months for what [arbitrator] McLaren ultimately determined was non-intentional use.
So those out there saying that Jon got off scot-free… I mean, an independent arbitrator determined that he didn’t do anything on purpose. It was, however it got into his system, he still got fifteen months. Frank Mir, this wasn’t a second occasion where there was still remnants from the first time. He was sanctioned for strict liability, same with Tom Lawlor.
There are a couple issues with his response. The first one is that Mir alleges that he wanted USADA to test supplements from further back than six months and USADA told him that is ridiculous, contrary to what they are now saying with Jon Jones, where they have concluded, in a result that happens to financially benefit their partner the UFC, that Jones’ positive results 18 months after his first failed test are due to the metabolites remaining in his system. Novitsky doesn’t address that in the above clip. The single study he references, with one study participant (which, unless I’m mistaken, was the Russian doctor who was the subject of the excellent Netflix documentary Icarus), was in 2012, prior to Mir’s failed 2016 test, leaving that discrepancy in how the two cases were handled.
The second issue is the pulsing issue, which there isn’t enough information on to make the kind of call USADA opted to make in this case. Novitsky is really sticking to the argument that…
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