VICTOR CONTE CLAIMS CURRENT USADA DRUG TESTS ON PACQUIAO AND MAYWEATHER IS NOT OLYMPIC STYLE TESTING
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 21 Mar 2015
Conte.
An expert on the use of various forms of performance enhancing drugs, Victor Conte, claims the current so-called random drug tests conducted by the US Anti Doping Agency on Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao which boxing scribes continue to refer to as ?Olympic Style testing? is incorrect.
Conte responded to a question from the New Standard/Viva Sports in the wake of the verbal exchanges between Pacquiao?s longtime adviser Michael Koncz and Mayweather Promotions Leonard Ellerbe after Koncz had suggested that if either fighters tests positive for a banned substance, he pays a fine of $5 million to his opponent.
Conte said ?short-term comprehensive blood and urine testing? is what Mayweather and Pacquiao are doing not 24/7 365 days a year like Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire under VADA, the Voluntary Anti Doping Agency as well as Olympic athletes.
He told us that ?if a boxer is allowed to determine the start date of the testing, then they can use PEDS and then taper off and begin testing,?
Conte posed the question ?what were the boxers doing for the two months before the six weeks of testing before a fight begins? insinuating that it could mean a PED green light.
The expert explained that a boxer ?could use PEDs for two months and taper off for two weeks before testing begins for six weeks and still receive benefits at fight time.
He claimed the reason the testing Mayweather and Pacquiao are doing is NOT as effective as 24/7 all year round is because Mayweather determined the start date.
At the same time Conte warned that ?it's important for the boxing world to understand that PEDS can have long lasting carry over effects upon performance after use.?
The founder and president of BALCO, a sports nutrition center in California, Conte served time in prison in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering.
After serving a prison term Conte developed sports supplements that are legal to use and has been in the forefront of efforts to clean up sports.
Conte for some time worked with Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire who enrolled some years ago in a year round random drug testing program of VADA and is now reportedly working with Zab Judah, a sparring partner of Mayweather and Andre Berto.
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