Den forne tungviktsmästaren Frank Mir fick under fredagskvällen sitt straff efter att ha testat positivt vid en dopningskontroll. Det var i samband med sin match mot Mark Hunt som den snart 38-årige amerikanen hade spår av dehydrochloromethyltestosterone i sitt test och för det stänger USADA av Mir i två år.
Så här skriver USADA i ett officiellt uttalande angående Mirs test:
DHCMT is a non-Specified Substance in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, which has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List. The finding of a long-term DHCMT metabolite in Mir’s sample, which was identified through a new detection method by the WADA-accredited laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, led to Mir being provisionally suspended from competition on April 8, 2016.
Upon learning of the positive results of the sample analyzed in Tokyo, USADA had all previously collected stored samples for Mir reanalyzed at the WADA-accredited laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah (SMRTL), which had also recently implemented methodology for the detection of newly identified long-term DHCMT metabolites. As a result of the additional analyses, SMRTL discovered that an out-of-competition sample Mir provided on February 5, 2016, which had previously been reported to USADA as negative for the presence of prohibited substances, was also positive for the same long-term DHCMT metabolite found in Mir’s in-competition sample.
Mir som förlorade matchen mot Hunt via KO har två vinster på sina åtta senaste matcher. Avstängningen gäller fram tills 8:e april 2018.
