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After testing positive for metabolites of the steroid turinabol during an in-competition medication test at UFC 214 Jon Jones subjected himself to a hold of prospective legal consequences provided that this was his second anti-doping infraction in the Camiseta Atalanta BC UFC’s USADA era.
In September Jones cleared Camiseta Sport Club Internacional one of the biggest of these hurdles protecting a reduction in his USADA suspension based on providing “substantial assistance” to the anti-doping regulator.
Today Jones cleared his final hurdle with the California specify athletic compensation reinstating his MMA licence.
During a Camiseta Gamba Osaka public hearing in Sacramento today the compensation executive director Andy Foster appeared side-by-side with Jones as well as strongly submitted that his licence should be reinstated. Foster made important comments about California sharing concurrent jurisdiction with USADA (who enjoy doping powers by virtue of personal contract with the UFC as well as their athletes). Foster noted the USADA “program needs tweaking” as well as went on record that he told USADA to no longer punish UFC athletes who stop working in their jurisdiction however rather that USADA should send any type of samples they gather to the compensation who should be the only authority to problem suspensions.
Jones paid a fine of $205,000. A neighborhood service plan of providing youth services at a BJJ academy with services needing to be completed by the end of the very first quarter of 2019. He likewise agreed to be willing to indication up for anti-doping testing to be conducted by VADA (the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency) with the compensation agreeing to pay for it if that might feasibly be done. Interestingly Jones did not have to dedicate to this testing he just was motivated to do so.
The compensation authorized a movement to eliminate Jones “from all suspension lists” as well as unanimously granted him a temporary licence enabling him to return to MMA.
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