While USADA continues to clean out the UFC of all performance enhancing drug users, sports around the world have been undergoing strict drug testing for years.
Many UFC fighters stand behind their innocence, and nearly every time a fighter fails, they blame supplements or some unknown accidental intake of a banned substance.
Many fans discredit the fighters, because it’s hard to believe that so many drug test failures come from tainted supplements, and if every fighter who says their innocent, is actually innocent, the entire system is flawed.
With World Anti Doping Agency at the lead, Olympians remain some of the most drug tested athletes in the sport today.
Recently an athlete failed a drug test for performance enhancing drugs, declared and stood by his innocence, and through an investigation it was discovered that a rival actually spiked his drink, so that he would fail and get banned from the 2020 Olympic games.
The strategy backfired though, and as such, the man responsible for force feeding his competition drugs, has received an 8 year suspension from competition.
Breitbart.com has it:
Yasuhiro Suzuki allegedly put anabolic steroids in the drink of fellow racer Seiji Komatsu who then failed a doping test, Japan’s anti-doping agency reported this week, according to USA Today.
After his failed test, the Japan Canoe Federation (JFC) began investigating Komatsu who maintained his innocence the whole time.
At length, the 32-year-old Suzuki finally admitted that he was the one who surreptitiously administered the drug.
According to reports, Suzuki and Komatsu were vying head-to-head for a spot on Japan’s 2020 Olympics team.
“I wanted to be in the kayak four in the Tokyo Olympic Games, but I was ranked fifth with a younger kayaker higher than me. If this continued, I knew I would fail to qualify for the Olympics, so I put in (the banned drug),” Yasuhiro Suzuki later admitted.
Suzuki also said that he admitted to his perfidy after becoming wracked with guilt.
“We apologize for causing trouble, not only to canoe athletes but also to those of all other sports,” JCF Director Osahiro Haruzono said, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
