Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports truly hit the nail on the head when he said “WADA preys on the public’s ignorance” in his article entitled ‘Enough with WADA’s phony warnings to MLB’.
Such public ignorance Jeff Passan mentioned was clearly exemplified in a piece penned by a boxing scribe just recently. In this article, the scribe assumed that it is possible for WADA to impose a two-year suspension on Floyd Mayweather or /and Shane Mosley if one (or both) is found positive for illegal drugs use.
This scribe is totally misinformed. Presently, WADA has no authority to suspend professional boxers even if it finds them positive for banned substance. Only boxing commissions have the power to suspend the license of boxers.
In Mayweather-Mosley case since the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has yet to agree or sign up to WADA code and hence will conduct its own drug testing, WADA can only advise the commission on anything relevant to the results of its random drug testing. Only NSAC has the authority to make decisions, based on their own tests and investigation, on matters such as suspension of boxers and penalties regardless of what the contractual agreement for the mega-fight states.
Now, considering that WADA’s testing is more stringent than NSAC’s (as Human Growth Hormones
, HGH, can only be determined via blood testing at the moment), it is a possibility that NSAC and WADA test results will yield different conclusion. Should this happen, NSAC’s decision and regulations will govern.Nonetheless, it is still highly doubtful that WADA would be able to find Mayweather and/or Mosley positive for HGH use bearing in mind that its blood test has been used since 2004 Summer Olympics Games in Athens, Greece but it has never produced a positive result. The first and only case involving a finding of for HGH in an athlete only happened of late when UK Anti-Doping found Wakefield Trinity Wildcats player Terry Newton positive for the banned substance.
- Marshall N. B., marx7204@lycos.com
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