Klitschko junior refuses random drug testing

[killersheep]

This is highly suspect. Surely the easy play is to accept the tests and put it back to Povetkin to back out again. This gives him a clear slate from any misinterpretations the public may have.

I've said it before no professional athlete should ever turn down a drug test especially if their opponent is subject to the same testing.

[boxingbantz]

I'm all in favour for letting all athletes take PEDs. There will be no suspiscion over who is doing them - as every will be - and some of the achievements we would see would be incredible. Imagine Usain Bolt on PEDs? He'd run the 100m faster than it would take me to blow my nose.

[Gandalf]

There is simply no excuse to refuse a random drugs test as a pro athlete. It would be like me refusing to allow a school any verification of my teaching qualifications. Why would I ever do that? If I know that I am qualified surely I would just go along with the request? After all, I'm sure I can get the job done and getting the job does mean a decent payday. It's silly to refuse that. Unless.... Povetkin is morally right to make the request, but Klit does also have the room to refuse. Boxing is a sport with too few scruples and not enough athletes willing to stand up and make point of things. He will probably never have to give blood in boxing...but he should.

[CFH]

There is simply no excuse to refuse a random drugs test as a pro athlete. It would be like me refusing to allow a school any verification of my teaching qualifications. Why would I ever do that? If I know that I am qualified surely I would just go along with the request? After all, I'm sure I can get the job done and getting the job does mean a decent payday. It's silly to refuse that. Unless.... Povetkin is morally right to make the request, but Klit does also have the room to refuse. Boxing is a sport with too few scruples and not enough athletes willing to stand up and make point of things. He will probably never have to give blood in boxing...but he should.

I think the problem is that there is no uniform system of teaching. If the teachers at your school were subject to more rigorous standards than teachers at a school a block away, I could understand being upset about it. I'm sure 90% of boxers, just like 90% of all athletes, are using something and I think that they feel uneven testing would put them at a disadvantage.

[Chino]

I think that they feel uneven testing would put them at a disadvantage.

It only sounds uneven to me if one goes through those tests while the other doesn't.

[CFH]

I think that they feel uneven testing would put them at a disadvantage.

It only sounds uneven to me if one goes through those tests while the other doesn't.

Yes, that was my point. But it's not just an issue between the two boxers in one particular fight, it's an issue between the few boxers who are required to undergo more stringent testing and the greater community of boxers who do not. Until all boxers, or at least all boxers fighting in a particular region/country/sanctioning body/whatever, are required to undergo this kind of testing than I think we will see a lot of resistance.