If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of thousands of tin foil hats being sheepishly crumpled and thrown in the bin.
Jose Aldo was forced out of his bout with Conor McGregor at UFC 189 after sustaining fractured rib in training. However, before pulling out he was at the centre of an out-of-competition drug-test fiasco that resulted in a urine sample he gave being discarded.
This happened because a Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) representative collected the sample without the proper paperwork and was subsequently fined and booted out of Brazil.
The Brazilian Athletic Commission (CABMMA) then came to the rescue with a World Anti-Doping Accredited agent to take another urine sample from the champion and send it to a laboratory in Salt Lake City, to do the test by the book.
The results of that test have come in, and it turns out Aldo’s clean. Check out the details below as per MMAWeekly.com.
“Sports Medicine Research and Testing in Salt Lake City processed the sample, which it says was analyzed for anabolic agents, peptide hormones, growth factors and related substances, Beta-2 Agonists, hormone and metabolic modulators, and diuretics and other masking agents. Aldo’s SMRTL test results were reported to Christopher Eccles, a Nevada deputy attorney general, detecting ‘no prohibited substance(s) or prohibited method(s), or their metabolite(s) or marker(s).”
Now we can put the conspiracy theory that Aldo was juicing to bed.
Hat-tip to Combate
