Enligt den amerikanska nyhetssidan Deadspin ska UFC under 2012 ha dolt Vitor Belforts dopningsresultat, som ska ha visat att Belfort haft för höga testostronsnivåer. Deadspin ska ha fått tag i ett internt UFC-mail som under 2012 av misstag skickats ut till ett flertal fighters och deras manager. I mailet finns Belforts testresultat från en dopningskontroll som gjordes inför hans match mot Jon Jones på UFC 152. Testet visar att den 38-årige brassen hade 2,5 gånger så höga testostronsnivåer i kroppen än den normala mängden för män i Belforts ålder.
Så här skriver Deadspin:
[The] document shows that Belfort’s free testosterone levels were high—two and a half times above the average for a man his age, in fact. At a time when the TRT exemption as a form of sanctioned doping was becoming a major issue in the sport, the document rightly raised suspicions among those who received it.
Belfort’s test—administered, according to these records, on Sept. 1, 2012 by Dr. Pierce—measured 1038 nanograms of testosterone per deciliter. A person in Belfort’s age range is more likely to be in the 700s, so while this result was within the normal range, it was near the high end of it. His free testosterone levels, though, were clearly elevated.
Beneath ”FLAG,” to the right of the ”RESULT” column on the LabCorp document, Belfort’s free testosterone result is labeled in bold as ”High.”The acceptable range listed on LabCorp metrics—standards vary between laboratories—is 8.7 to 25.1 picograms, or a trillionth of a gram, per milliliter. Belfort’s free testosterone, which encompasses .5- to 3-percent of the testosterone in the body and is crucial to enhancing recovery and performance, registered 47.7 pg/ml. That’s two and a half times where a man his age should have been.
Dessa resultat kom drygt ett halvår innan Belfort fick tillstånd att genomgå TRT-behandling, som var laglig fram tills mars 2014, vilket indikerar att Belfort förmodligen gick på TRT-behandling innan han fick ett officiellt tillstånd.
Galan gick i Ontario, Kanade, och enligt Deadspin fick inte tillsynsmyndigheten i staten tillgång till testresultaten.
Regulators in Ontario, Canada, oversaw the Jones-Belfort fight at UFC 152 on Sept. 22, 2012, and were unaware of Belfort’s TRT or apparent use exemption. As far as the Ontario commission was concerned, any details related to testosterone exemptions were spelled out in the contract between the UFC and its fighters, said Stephen Puddister, a representative of the province’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Any questions should have been directed to the UFC.
Ahead of the fight, Marc Ratner, the UFC’s head of regulatory affairs, told TheScore.com that the UFC ”cannot disclose” drug testing or use exemption information because of the commission. On the night Jones stopped Belfort—though not before the young champion’s arm was injured during a submission attempt by the Brazilian—Puddister told me that Ontario was not preventing UFC from disclosing this sort of information.
UFC har ännu inte kommenterat detta. Belfort kommer att ta sig an Dan Henderson på UFC Fight Night 77 den 7:e november.
