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Shortly after reclaiming the UFC light heavyweight title with a knockout of Daniel Cormier, Jon Jones failed a USADA<\/a>-administered drug test and lost that same title<\/a>.\u00a0Since then, Jones and his team have maintained that he did not intentionally ingest any banned substances<\/a>. In the opinion of former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, however, ignorance is no excuse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re either clean or you\u2019re not. There is no gray zone when it comes to full contact sports, period,\u201d Miesha Tate said on\u00a0MMA Tonight on Sirius XM<\/a>\u00a0(h\/t\u00a0Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cI don\u2019t care if USADA says, Miesha, don\u2019t eat Cheerios the week of your fight. Guess what, I ain\u2019t eating Cheerios. That\u2019s the rules. They make it so the sport is safe and clean, and we need to follow them.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know the rules directly ahead of time,\u201d Tate continued. \u201cUSADA hands out pamphlets, tons of information. They make it very very easy. If you have a question, if there\u2019s\u00a0anything\u00a0that a doctor prescribes you, you have phone numbers, you have a website. You can run it through a number of people to verify if this is a safe product or not.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Jon<\/p>\n

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\u201cI utilized this many times myself, just [for] precautions. I have a slight thyroid disorder. My thyroid runs a little bit slow. I took a natural pig hormone, but I wanted to make sure that it was safe, it was okay. It was cleared, and it was alright, but I went through the process to make sure that what I was putting into my body \u2014 I sent all my supplements to USADA to have them cleared, and they\u2019re happy to do that. And that gives me the reassurance because I don\u2019t want to accidentally take something.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you\u2019re \u2018accidentally\u2019 speeding, and a police officer pulls you over, and said, \u2018sorry sir, I was going 20 over, I didn\u2019t realize,\u2019 you\u2019re still going 20 over, period. You can\u2019t use ignorance as an excuse, and it needs to be 100% clean, not basically clean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these comments from Miesha Tate?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 9\/24\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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