Or should he refuse any sort of blood testing and go fight Paulie instead? "After filling a glass tube with his blood for the fifteenth time in a week, American decathlete Bryan Clay wondered whether it might be taking a toll. "That's a lot of blood," Clay says. Bryan Clay chose to participate in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency testing program because to him it is worth showing that he competes cleanly. Three days of testing during that week in early March, five vials each day. And he volunteered for this. Clay did say it was beyond the requirements when he competed in the world indoor heptathlon championship in Valencia, Spain, but he did win the gold. But Clay signed up for this unprecedented level of testing because, when the meet was over, anti-doping experts say they were able to look at Clay and say they were nearly certain he had been clean. Maybe not with scientific certainty -- much more research would have to be done -- but with a greater assurance than anyone has had in more than 50 years. "It's worth it," Clay says."
Maybe not to that extent, but this is Pacquiao's career on the line here. As I say whenever commenting on this, I have no idea whether Pacquiao is or isn't taking steriods and I'm not going to say that he's juicing, but others will, and it's going to tarnish his career if this is still looming over him when he calls it a day.
