Jon Jones Vada Test Results Come Back Positive Again
LAS VEGAS >> Hither nosotros are once again.
Those were the opening words from Jeff Novitzky, the UFC Vice President of Athlete Health of Operation, addressing the news Thursday that minuscule trace levels of turinabol appeared again in two recent drug tests administered to calorie-free heavyweight champion Jon Jones.
It is yet another chapter in the mercurial career of the one of the greatest and most controversial fighters in UFC history.
The proficient news is, considering the amounts were once more so microscopic, it doesn't bear on Jones' title defense against Anthony Smith at UFC 235 on Saturday.
The bad news is it's more questions surrounding Jones and drug testing, which is why Novitzky met with the media Thursday before the UFC 235 open workouts at the MGM Grand.
Hither's a breakup of what it all ways:
ROUND I
The low levels of turinabol first appeared in Jones' system in December and resulted in the unabridged UFC 232 card – which featured Jones successfully defending his title against Alexander Gustafsson – to be moved from Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena to The Forum in Inglewood.
The event came w on six days' detect considering the Nevada State Athletic Commission said it didn't have enough time to properly vet the positive test. The California Land Athletic Commission felt comfortable with the testify and the word of scientists and experts that there was no bear witness of the turinabol being readministered.
The CSAC also approved the fight subsequently asking Jones to take a drug exam at KorvaLabs in San Dimas, as well equally enroll with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA), which has no ties to the UFC, dissimilar USADA, which is the UFC'southward anti-doping partner.
Round Two (AND Earlier)
Scientists and experts have determined the microscopic amounts of turinabol are a residual "pulsing" from when Jones tested positive for the anabolic steroid in 2017 and was later on suspended for 15 months.
For the record, Jones has likewise tested positive for cocaine metabolites at the end of 2014, which he admitted to using. Because it was an out-of-competition drug test and the main metabolite benzoylecgonine is not banned out-of-competition past the World Anti-Doping Agency, Jones was allowed to fight at UFC 182. He was eventually fined $25,000 for violating the UFC's Athlete Code of Behave policy.
He also tested positive for ii banned substances – clomiphene, an anti-estrogenic substance, and letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor – in July 2016. Though Jones professed his innocence and an arbitration console concluded Jones did not take the banned substances intentionally, USADA still suspended Jones for 1 year.
WHY DOESN'T THIS 1 MATTER?
Jones was tested five times in a bridge of 23 days in February. A USADA test on Feb. 1 came dorsum negative, as did a Feb. nine VADA examination ordered by the CSAC. NSAC tests on February. xiv and fifteen came back positive, the first for 40 picograms and the second for 20 picograms. On Feb. 18, a VADA exam ordered by Nevada came dorsum negative.
To Novitzky, this is actually proficient news.
"Y'all have two very depression-level picogram positives volume-ended by ii negative tests within a week and a week and a half," Novitzky said. "If there was re-administration of this substance, you would conspicuously see a parent compound, you'd run across curt- and mid-term metabolites, which science has shown to be in being for several weeks. Again, it'due south unfortunate for Jon, but based on the levels of amount of testing, information technology's the best testify I've seen."
HOW MUCH IS A PICOGRAM?
A picogram is i-trillionth of a gram. Or, as Novitzky has put it over and over again: "Take a grain of common salt, cutting it 55 1000000 times. One of those pieces is a picogram."
WHY THE TWO POSITIVES?
Novitzky said he spoke with Jones' squad about Feb. fourteen and 15. He was told that was when Jones' grooming has reached its zenith.
"That was right in the eye when Jon, what his camp told me, was peaking in his grooming," he said.
WHY NOW?
To be able to find one piece out of 55 million particles of the equivalent of a grain of table salt is testament to the enhanced testing. Novitzky said at that place are other athletes who have tested positive for such minuscule amounts – including UFC fighter Grant Dawson, whose potential violation was dismissed by USADA in early December.
"It'due south condign quite mutual and I think it'southward just the circumstance at that level, the sensitivity level of testing, over last couple of years, has increased ten-, hundredfold," Novitzky said.
In example you lot're wondering what the next microscopic level might be, Novitzky said he doesn't know the name of the next-lowest level of measurement.
WHAT DID JON JONES SAY?
The light heavyweight champion didn't work out Thursday, instead bringing out his daughters – Mia, Carmen and Olivia – and saying he would take pictures with fans.
In addressing the media, Jones seemed resigned to his picogram paradox, simply remains at peace with it all.
"I'm comfortable with the idea that it's gonna exist office of my career and I don't know how long it's gonna concluding. What helps me slumber practiced at nighttime is knowing I submit to every drug exam, I've been tested by three of the about powerful agencies in the world. I've never avoided a test. I just experience the more accessible I am, the more data they understand that they all accept in this situation, the more everybody will understand."
Jones also spoke of other athletes – in Major League Baseball and the UFC, for example – experiencing similar bug with delayed positive tests.
No one has his notoriety and platform though.
"I know I'chiliad nearly a leader in this whole development. I'yard comfy in this infinite. I simply wish fans would not only expect at the headlines, simply click on the links and read and learn what's really going on."
WHAT DOES ANTHONY SMITH Call up?
Jones' opponent was asked after his open workout Thursday what he thought of Jones' latest drug tests. Smith, who in the by has said he doesn't care about picograms, wasn't as diplomatic this time.
"For whatever reason, it tends to pulse when he gets close to a fight. I expected it. I would have been more shocked if information technology wasn't in that location. It is what it is … nosotros're good. We're proficient.
"I trust the Nevada State Athletic Commission. I don't understand the science behind it. It doesn't make whatsoever sense to any of us. We're only regular people, and then it doesn't make whatsoever sense to me."
Smith said he spoke to Bob Bennett, who heads up the NSAC, and trusts Bennett wouldn't allow Jones to accept any unfair advantage over him.
Yet, Smith is still skeptical of Jones. "Obviously at that place's been some sort of indiscretion in that location. At some bespeak he used PEDs. I don't think we can fence that. But as far as at present? I think Jon is a clean athlete."
Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/28/ufc-235-jon-jones-tests-positive-for-picograms-again-why-it-does-and-doesnt-matter/
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