Morales gets excused by most everyone because he's a "legend" and supposedly ate bad meat. Berto also had trace amounts of another ped and he's a doper and cheater. Ped's are ped's plain and simple.
Making weight is part of boxing so Morales is out of order for using clenbuterol for sure. However for me anabolic steroids is another ball park. Its like theft and murder. Both crimes but different in scale.
just shows you how stupid these ****ing tests are. there should be a certain level of substance to cause you to fail...not some traces of something so small it gets passed off for "contamination" . and Failing a test should be FAILING a test. not take 2 more tests and pass. he either should NEVER have been consider to have failed this in the first place or if he failed because he legitimately had something in him he shouldnt have, then punish the guy. this wishy washy **** makes a mockery of the "take the test" tests :--(
They just said that it was in the contract that Morales would be allowed to have trace amounts of it in his system, which means the positive test was due to the food he was eating in Mexico.
The problem here is both tested positive at the beginning of the testing when they could have been cycling off something and have low 'trace amounts' left. This is why year round testing is needed. Now if something shows up in trace amounts you can be assured it was contamination.
I still have yet to hear anybody from VADA or USADA come out and say that they only found "trace amounts" in either of these guys' samples, and I'm not just gonna take Conte's, De La Hoya's or Schaeffer's word for it.
Synthetic clenbuterol in trace amounts can be a byproduct of (dyn-) epo use. Often they can't find the epo but find other stuff like clenbuterol or miniscule plastic residue (from the bloodbags) in the blood wich gives it away. That's what a big name cyclist (Contador) was caught on too and he came up with the meat contemination defence. It took a while but eventually they suspended him. In my book Berto, Contador and Morales are all guilty and probably not on clenbuterol use itself but some other ped wich left the trace amount in the blood. There's always the chance it's food contemination, but in most cases smoke means fire.