Povetkin failed Drug Test - Fight Off

[Ron Swanson]

Is anyone here a bio chemist who has a working knowledge of shelf life with these agents? This drug was fine/not included until January of this year. Is it possible that this chemical could be found in a blood test 5 months after it was actually taken? And if so is it fair to then ruin someone over something they stopped taking once they knew it was added to the banned list?

The maker of it says it can indeed take months to leave your body. But, why was he taking it in the first place? I highly doubt he has myocardial ischemia.

It was placed on the PED list because it is a PE, maybe it wasn't banned before but these athletes weren't taking it for its intended purpose they were taking it to performance enhance.

It seems like both sides should be reasonable because we know what we need to know, athletes could still be testing positive even if they stopped taking it when it was banned(shortened suspension). But athletes were taking something unnatural to gain an advantage(so accept shortened suspension)

[p4pking]

Define "unnatural" though? That opens a whole nother can of worms. I'd bet there aren't many elite fighters who don't take some kind of supplement which doesn't exactly grow on trees. If it legit wasn't banned and he stopped taking it when it became so, then he shouldn't be punished imo. For the record, I don't doubt he was also taking other things which weren't detectable, and I wouldn't doubt Wilder is/was also.