ARUM OUTRAGED OVER VIOLATION OF WADA ANTI DOPING RULES BY MAYWEATHER
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 11 Sep 2015
The intravenous administration of rehydration substances into Floyd Mayweather Jr after the May 1 weigh-in for the May 2 ?Fight of the Century? against eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao which the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) prohibits was made known to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum only 18 days after it was administered, has blasted it as ?an outrage.?
Arum told the New Standard./boxingmirror.com that the violation of accepted WADA protocol concerned him very much and branded it ?an outrage.?
He said it was ?disgraceful to allow the guy (Mayweaher) to do what he did and then 20 days after the fight decree that ?what you (Mayweather) did was wrong but we are giving you the exception? while mat the same time refusing to give Pacquiao permission to get treatment for his aching right shoulder hours before the fight.
Arum noted that ?Legally there is nothing about it.?
He said ?sometimes there are things for which there is no legal redress for and this is one of those situations. I?ve been outraged since I found out about this.?
Asked whether he would raise the issue of the Mayweaher violation with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Arum replied ?Are you kidding? Are you kidding?? meaning it was useless raising the issue with the NSAC.
Arum said ?I have kept my mouth shut because what am I supposed to do, shoot out my mouth for what purpose??.
In an article on SB Nation he reported ?shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, May 1, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao weighed in for their historic encounter that would be contested the following night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Later on Friday afternoon, collection agents for the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which had been contracted to oversee drug testing for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, went to Mayweather?s Las Vegas home to conduct a random unannounced drug test.
The collection agents found evidence of an IV being administered to Mayweather. Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which had jurisdiction over the fight, says that USADA did not tell the commission whether the IV was actually being administered when the agents arrived. USADA did later advise the NSAC that Mayweather?s medical team told its agents that the IV was administered to address concerns related to dehydration.
Mayweather?s medical team also told the collection agents that the IV consisted of two separate mixes. The first was a mixture of 250 milliliters of saline and multi-vitamins. The second was a 500-milliliter mixture of saline and Vitamin C. Seven hundred and fifty milliliters equals 25.361 ounces, an amount equal to roughly 16 percent of the blood normally present in an average adult male.
The mixes themselves are not prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which sets the standards that USADA purports to follow. However, their intravenous administration is prohibited by WADA.
18 days after the fight, USADA gave Mayweather a retroactive therapeutic use exemption for a procedure that is on the WADA ?Prohibited Substances and Methods List.? And because of a loophole in its drug-testing contract, USADA wasn?t obligated to notify the Nevada State Athletic Commission or Pacquiao camp regarding Mayweather?s IV until after the retroactive TUE was granted.
Meanwhile, on May 2 (fight night), Pacquiao?s request to be injected with Toradol (a legal substance) to ease the pain caused by a torn rotator cuff was denied by the Nevada State Athletic Commission because the request was not made in a timely manner.
A conclusion that one might draw from these events is that it helps to have friends at USADA.?
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