The Vancouver Athletic Commission announced today the implementation of an aggressive, comprehensive anti-doping testing policy that will be employed at UFC 131: Carwin vs. dos Santos.
UFC 131: Vancouver Athletic Commission Clarifies New Testing Policy
1. This new policy is not Canada-wide. Each athletic commission in Canada has their own rules and procedures and Vancouver has independently elected to employ the stated anti-doping policy.
2. This new policy slightly differs from how matters were conducted at UFC 115, the last time the UFC held an event in Vancouver. Previously, a medical director of the commission and his personnel oversaw sample collection, not the CCES. This new anti-doping policy is an upgrade in the comprehensiveness, transparency and management from the previous rules that were in place during the UFC’s last visit. Lastly, last year’s testing was not conducted according to WADA’s International Standard for Testing for ‘in competition’ and the samples were not sent to the only WADA-accredited lab in Canada.
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