Comments Thread For: USADA Responds: There is No Bias Against Pacquiao

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

USADA's zealot bossman, the lawyer Travis Tygart, is on a summer vacation but I was able to speak at length with the drug testing agency's media relations manager, Annie Skinner, twice on Monday concerning Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum's proclamation that his side will accept fully random blood testing for a possible mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - if WADA, the world anti-doping organization handles it.


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[ronniejunior]

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She said that perhaps Arum has a misperception of how WADA operates, explaining "does not do any actual testing, they do not have the infrastructure to do that. You take (world soccer body) FIFA, the Swimming Federation and others...they are all signatories to WADA. What WADA does is contract out (the testing) to recognized doping control agencies in the different countries."

I asked Skinner if hypothetically a third party doping control laboratory or organization might be agreed to, thus overcoming Team Pacquiao's objections to USADA, which Arum branded as "not neutral" in this matter.

"No other organization in the US does the type of gold standard testing that that we do. Personally, at least, I've never heard of any third party organization that performs the WADA approved standards to the same degree that we do," Skinner said.

[MrRolltide91]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Pacquiao'd]

Top prank and the juicehead owned again

[Imatroll]

These guys will "randomly" test pacquiao 3x times on fight day

[BesWorldChamp]

"No other organization in the US does the type of gold standard testing that that we do. Personally, at least, I've never heard of any third party organization that performs the WADA approved standards to the same degree that we do,"

I don't think that Bob Arum really thinks that the USADA is biased toward Mayweather. I just think that they don't want to be "bullied" by Mayweather with Arum being a man of immense pride, and Pacquiao being a man of honor.

I was excited when I heard that Arum would use the WADA for unlimited blood testing. However, the above quote casts doubt on the potential of the fight being made (yet again).

I can see the Mayweather camp not accepting anything but USADA because of what is highlighted in the quote.

Here we go again.

[BesWorldChamp]

Originally Posted by yesir

Top prank and the juicehead owned again

Yeah right.

[ThePrince]

Tygart starting 'vacation' season off early this year, already setting the pace

And there's plenty of agencies that can handle the testing with WADA oversight. But I guess the self-proclaimed gold standard organization wants that Floyd Mayweather Boxing Association check that they've been eating off of lately.

[ThePhantom5]

Originally Posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP

USADA's zealot bossman, the lawyer Travis Tygart, is on a summer vacation but I was able to speak at length with the drug testing agency's media relations manager, Annie Skinner, twice on Monday concerning Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum's proclamation that his side will accept fully random blood testing for a possible mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - if WADA, the world anti-doping organization handles it.


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[BesWorldChamp]

Originally Posted by Imatroll

These guys will "randomly" test pacquiao 3x times on fight day

No, they won't.