What exactly is "Olympic Style Drug Testing? The Olympic style testing includes blood which is in contrast with the Nevada State Athletic commission's drug testing of urine, but no blood.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, based in Colorado Springs, was contacted by Golden Boy Promotions, which is representing Floyd Mayweather, Jr. for the proposed March 13 bout in Las Vegas against Manny Pacquiao, regarding performing the tests on both fighters.
Performance enhancing drugs or PEDs include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), certain forms of synthetic hemoglobin.
Unlike urine, blood test is more thorough because it can reveal if traces of drug use by analyzing the bodily functions that may have been altered even though the particular performance enhancing drug used by an athlete is no longer present.
Manny Pacquiao has agreed to additional testing — beyond the NSAC's requirements — 30 days before the fight event and immediately after the fight.
US Anti Doping Agency insists that setting blackout dates for testing is not enough, simply because there's a lot of things you can do to cheat and get away with it. The blood is taken from the arm and it's less than one teaspoon of about 380 teaspoons in the body and not a whole lot to make an athlete weak the day of their fight.
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