Look at the bitter Oscar quotes De la Hoya claims USADA CEO Travis Tygart "personally" informed him that he “testified before Congress that anyone who says HGH (human growth hormone) can be detected by a urine test is mistaken. It can only be detected by a blood test.” "Now I have to wonder about him," De La Hoya wrote. "I’m saying to myself, 'Wow. Those Mosley punches, those Vargas punches and those Pacquiao punches all felt the same.' I’m not saying yes or no (about whether Pacquiao might be taking performance-enhancing drugs); I’m just saying that now people have to wonder: Why doesn’t he want to do this? Why is it such a big deal? "A lot of eyebrows have been raised. This is not good at all. C’mon. It’s only a little bit of blood. If you have nothing to hide, then do the test." "If Pacquiao doesn’t want to do this and risk a possible $40 million payday because he’s afraid of needles or believes he’ll be weakened by blood tests, then that raises question marks," De La Hoya wrote. "The guy has tattoos everywhere; he’s tattooed from top to bottom. You’re telling me he’s afraid of needles?" “If Pacquiao, the toughest guy on the planet, is afraid of needles and having a few tablespoons of blood drawn from his system, then something is wrong,” de la Hoya writes in his blog. “The guy has tattoos everywhere; he’s tattooed from top to bottom. You’re telling me he’s afraid of needles?” “Just look away when they put the needle in your arm,” de la Hoya says, adding that Pacquiao will “probably lose more blood in the fight than the blood being drawn for the test.” He's even more bitter about the Margarito fight and I would imagine it is partly to do with him wasting all those California court cost trying to ban Margarito for life
It's not like they had a choice in the matter. The testing agency felt that had taken enough blood at that time. They store it for future tests, anyway. The point is they, according to Travis Tygart, did not notify the fighters that they were done taking blood. So, the fighters did not know exactly which tests would be performed when the agency showed up. That's the true effectiveness of that approach, IMO. It's more of a deterrent than anything. And testing both blood and urine is a way for them to try to cover all the bases. I don't think anyone can say either fighter's performance was hampered by the testing. Floyd performed extremely well, and Shane has shown in his follow up fight against Mora that he is at a stage in career, where his age is beginning to show.
but didnt tygart say that they only needed the one blood test and they didnt go past 18 days before the fight in order to make sure of no ill effects. So why the double standard 7 or 10 days for Manny?
its not aboutw hen they stopped getting the test its the fact that they could have been tested all the way to the fight. i dont care if they did only one test. random is the key if you never knew when they were comming or how many test they were going to do you would take anything?? too much of a risk. cuz you dont know, now if the cutoff date was 18days thats different but it wasnt.
Good article... until the last minute of it, you had a lot of inside information on Ariza and that's about all that's worth anything in this article., but you have absolutely no proof or even the slightest evidence that would make anybody with common sense believe Pacquiao is on steroids. Pacaquio is a workaholic and hard work and dedication has gotten him to were he is today, please stop jumping on a theory that Floyd Sr came up with, I find it very stupid for someone to all of sudden out of no were accuse a fighter of using steroids because of great performances, and I find it even more stupid for people like you to actually take a crackhead serious and listen to someone who religiously hates Pacaquio and his camp.
:rofl You are such a clown. A fat mother****er like you having the audacity to call ANYONE lazy Brilliant.
pac is lazy, karceno can ramdomly name 20 fighters straight out of his ass who trains harder than pac.
I agree fully...I surf using my Blackberry and the charges become abit too much for my no job havin ass lol
Of course Floyd had a say. He obviously did NOT want to adhere to FULL OLYMPIC STYLE TESTING where Floyd would be subjected to year round testing like it's suppose to be done. USADA's foundation is for RANDOM testing regardless of how it's conformed to Floyd's request. So no matter who is delegated to handle the drug testing....no matter what organization....The RANDOM element will be present no matter what the two parties agree to in terms of the cut off date.