Artur Beterbiev had an “atypical finding" for test and HGH

I wonder how many atypical test findings happen that aren’t released, from sounds of this was only released because of pressure from Hearn and smith.

 

Beat me to it.

 

His head is huge man.

 

Yes, there's a lot of doping going around. No news there. But no country has been as rampant as the Russians in Sotji 2014.

And you forgot to say that the American's picked up the use of steroids from - yeah, you guessed it - the Soviets in the 50's. Wasn't illegal back then, though.

 

Every athlete is on roids, me included.

 

I disagree, the Chinese, Cubans and Africans/ Caribbean countries have rampant drug use as well. Problem is that Russia is geopolitical enemy number one, so all eyes are on them. And the Chinese basically have influence over the world doping agencies. Every single elite American boxer is on the juice. Boxing didn't even start testing for steroids until the 90's. And that testing was pathetic.

 

Ever since Lance Armstrong I have lost all faith in professionals not doping

 

Check out American Olympic doctor Exum Wade exposing rampant American drug use in sports in the 80's and 90's.

https://www.espn.com/oly/news/2003/0416/1540029.html

 

Mirko definitely was a saucy fighter, sure kicked hard.

Damn finally someone who knows something about hormonal manipulation and how it relates to professional athletics. Let's go

 

If a fighter has atypically high levels of endogenous hormones, then you would expect them to continually test at an "abnormal" level. Sudden spikes are only indicative of a mistimed cycle.

 

Steroids were able to be masked until like, Ben Johnson. You could just take masking agents becuase the tests were so ass. You didn't even need to "land the plane" so to speak, you could just blast right through and mask it. After that, you had to be 10% more clever but it was still so easy. It still is so easy. Holyfield never failed a drugs test, neither did Bonds, and neither have obviously doped athletes like many top heavyweights.

Not necessarily, but almost 100%. Would have to see the levels. Test fluctuation is very normal and one of the main advantages of supplementation imo would be the consistency of test release vs. inconsistent natural production. Chris Weidman had an interesting one where he crashed his levels too low and had nearly no testosterone in his body at all for his pre-fight drugs test.

He certainly doped, the metabolites say it all. Also HGH being high at that age and not appearing in tests before as you say is definitely another guilty verdict.

But still morons clinging to Nandrolone boar bc their daddy roided and got gyno, or Clen Beef because they don't want to sully the reputation of boxing's last real cash cow. But Lamont Peterson did it for sure. OK.

 

He’s too old to be testing abnormally high like this. But he’s popular on this forum so the excuses already are flowing.

 

I agree with you; the testosterone finding is perhaps arguable but the HGH finding is not, and when one considers the odds of them occurring simultaneously it is even more damning.

 

I remember the female East German swimmers winning gold medal after gold medal. One of them had her endocrine system so ****ed up, she couldn't be a normal female so she ended up living as a male for the rest of her life with a wife.