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SB Nation: Doctors Administered Illegal IV on Floyd Mayweather before Pacquiao Fight

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SB Nation reports that boxing champ Floyd Mayweather took an illegal IV before his fight with Manny Pacquiao.

The discovery was made during a random drug test at Mayweather’s home in Las Vegas. The boxer’s medical team says the IV was necessary to address concerns about dehydration.

Such IV’s are illegal because they can be used to mask drugs during testing or to administer banned substances. In this case, the actual substances in the IV– saline, multi-vitamins and vitamin C are not illegal– according to the report from Thomas Hauser.

Ironically, it has been Pacquiao, not Mayweather, who has been suspected of taking banned substances. Mayweather has carved himself a reputation for being a leader in PED testing to clean up the sport.

Mayweather received an exemption to receive the injections 18 days after the fight.

The SB Nation report raises some serious issues about how drug testing is administered by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“USADA’s boxing testing program is propaganda; that’s all,” says Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO which has bee involved in numerous steroid controversies and served time for distributing steroids and money laundering. “It has one set of rules for some fighters and a different set of rules for others. That’s not the way real drug testing works.”

Under the rules, Mayweather can determine when drug testing starts. Unlike the Olympics, testing is not conducted year round. In boxing, testing doesn’t begin until a fight is announced. Mayweather didn’t announce this weekend’s fight with Andre Berto until 39 days before the actual fight, leaving little time for serious testing.

You can read about serious issues raised about drug testing and what the USADA did about its discovery in SB Nation.

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