earlier today Nick Diaz’s camp made headlines arguing that the Quebec compensation unwinded their guidelines concerning weigh-ins by enabling a weight as high as 170.9 pounds to be rounded down to 170. This was obviously revealed soon before the arranged evaluate in probably prejudicing a competitor who unnecessarily cut an additional pound. The second problem increased associated to GSP’s publish fight medication test arguing it was not correctly supervised. While these allegations, if true, paint the Quebec Commission in a bad light, they likely will do bit much more than that.
There are two points that at first spring to mind. First, with the weigh in controversy,Quebec’s policy concerning battle sports are silent on exactly how decimals are to be treated. Perhaps legislative amendment is needed however absent legislative clearness this appears to be a matter of discretion as well as it is challenging to see exactly how the Commission’s exercise of discretion with respect to decimals is appealable offered the discretion is being excersied similarly as well as consistently for fighters in a bout. Section 168(7) specifies that the fighter’s contract should specify “the maximum weight that the contestant should accomplish at the official weigh-in“. This strongly suggests the measurement of the binding weight agreed to by the fighters will be deferred to the Commission’s exercise of powers. That said, if there is evidence of inconsistency in application of this discretion from event to event then that is bad judgement on the part of the commission. Worse yet, however, it appears the utilize of decimals was an ‘off the record’ decision which frankly may delegitimize this utilize of discretion.
Second, with respect to allegations that GSP’s publish fight medication test was not properly supervised I stop working to see exactly how a legal treatment can occur from this this oversight alone. If this allegation is true it definitely shows poorly on the Commission, however, the medication test procedures are there to bind the athletes, not the Commission. The policies addressing the function as well as capability to subject fighters to Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Corea del Sur medication tests reads as follows:
71.1. A person authorized by the president of the board under section 46.2.2 of the Act respecting security in sports (chapter S-3.1) as well as designated to take urine samples may take urine samples from a contestant as much as 3 hours before as well as 6 hours after a bout.
The taking of samples is meant to establish whether a contestant having taken part in a battle sports event has taken a substance, in excess of the permitted quantity, appearing on the listing of Prohibited Substances as well as Prohibited techniques contained in the Olympic motion Anti-Doping Code published by the worldwide Olympic committee (IOC) Camiseta Paris Saint-Germain whose headquarters are found at Château de Vidy, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland, available through the electronic address Camiseta AC Milan (), as it reads on the date of the sampling.
These requirements are set to guarantee the integrity of the testing process to prevent abuse by fighters. This is expressly spelled out is s. 71.1. This, coupled with the truth that the authority to test is clearly discretionary (“may take urine samples“) will likely leave Nick Diaz’s grievance without treatment on this issue.
This recent debate reminds me of the murmurings made the Chael Sonnen camp complying with his second defeat to Anderson Silva alleging an ‘intended foul’. A grievance that may produce headlines however likely not a legal remedy. That being said, this debate has definitely shined a much needed spotlight on the antics of the Quebec compensation as well as it appears they requirement to clean up their act. Hopefully all of the light the Diaz camp is shining on the Quebec Commission’s antics will result in obviously much needed disinfecting.
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