Is boxing the only major sport without random/blood testing?

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  • S.G.
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    Is boxing the only major sport without random/blood testing?

    I was just reading about some rugby player being busted for cheating by a random blood test [here] and it got me thinking. I know football (soccer) and athletics are both heavily policed by anti-doping agencies, and I think I remember reading that the USADA (the organisation Mayweather proposed handle testing for the Pacquiao fight) are involved with the NFL and NBA to some extent.

    So I was just wondering if anyone knows of any major sports besides boxing where they apply neither blood nor random testing.

    And I'm not trying to incite a flame war, I'm genuinely curious and can't be arsed to wade through Google results.
  • 120
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    #2
    The WWE doesn't have any....

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    • AllEyesOpen
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      #3
      That's a very good question, I'd like to know that myself.

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      • -Spinal-
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        #4
        It's blood tests are definitely one of the weakest one's I have seen and so easy to pass.

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        • 120
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          #5
          Most professional sports don't have random drug testing. That's for amateur and olympics

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          • Vasyl’s dad
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            #6
            Boxing isn't considered one of the major sports.

            Sad, but true, which is why you rarely see coverage of it in your local paper.

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            • Ray*
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              Am sure Tennis started random testing 2 years ago and since then they have caught a lot of tennis players juicing up and ban them, The funny thing is people like Andre agassi recently came out and admit drug use while he was active.

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              • BattlingNelson
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                I highly doubt that any of the major yank sports like football, basketball, hockey and baseball has any kind of random blood testing what so ever. The yanks don't mind being fooled.

                Remember the first time the NBA players was to participate in the olympics? They had 2 conditions. The first was that they didn't want to stay in the olympic village. The second was that the wouldn't be available for any kind of drugtesting.

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                • fabie
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                  #9
                  No....but it's the only sport where a boxer named Mayweather would command a drug-test in the end of his career.

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                  • S.G.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by 120
                    Most professional sports don't have random drug testing. That's for amateur and olympics
                    In Britain I think all sports have random drug testing. That's the impression I got from reading a few articles anyway; I couldn't find anything specifically on anti-doping so I'm just going by tidbits and filling in the gaps.

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