The saga of UFC Light Heav🅘yweight Champion Jon Jones and the failed UFC 214 drug test c🐼ontinues to get ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚstranger with each passing day.
Initial reports stated that the light heavyweight champion failed a second in competition drug test (first was prior to UFC 200) leading into his fight at UFC 214.
Jones was popped for an illegal substance known as turinabol, which can only be detected✃ through a uri𒀰ne test.
However, according to two separa🐓te reports 🌳from Ariel Helwani and , it was Jones who passed a post-fight blood test issued by USADA on the night of UFC 214.
Jon Jones passed his blood test right after UFC 214, according to multiple sources. This was 24 hours after th꧋e positive test. More coming.
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani)
Al-Shatti is also stating that Jones had also passed two separate out of competition drug tests issued by USADA on July 6 and🉐 July 7, UFC 214 took place on July 29.
As was stated ear𝄹lier, the substance known as turinabol can only be detected through a urine tests, so all the passed drug tests ✤for Jones doesn’t clear him of using the illegal substance.
Andy Foster in the꧒ California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) Executive Director and he is saying that the whole situation surrounding Jones doesn’t make any sense to him.
“This entire situation doesn’t make any sense to me,” Foster told . “It just doesn’t.”
Also according to Foster, the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion was subjected to a꧅ steroid panel as part of the drug testing leading into the fight and if Jones was using any kind of illegal steroids, then it should’ve shown up on the panel.
“If you’re doing a steroid panel, then this drug is going to show up every time. The fact that it didn’t show up on (July 6 and 7) when he was tested before, that’s an indication that he was not on that drug at that time,” says Foster.
Even though Jones has a previous history with taking illegal substances, t𒆙he CSAC Executive Director doesn’t wღant any kind of judgment passed on the fighter until the whole process is complete.
“At that point, one of two things is probably going on here: He’s either extremely careless, or he’s a cheater,” Foster said. “I know he’s already been extremely careless once in his career … but none of this makes any sense. That’s why I think it’s very important that we vet this and look at all the available evidence before we jump to conclusions and hang this guy out to dry.”
Either way, it looks like there is going to beꦛ more to this story than just a basic failed drug test scenario that we’ve seen countless times before.
