{"id":277752,"date":"2018-06-04T05:52:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277752"},"modified":"2018-06-04T05:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:57:57","slug":"georges-st-pierre-says-its-still-easy-to-beat-drug-tests-even-in-usada-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/georges-st-pierre\/georges-st-pierre-says-its-still-easy-to-beat-drug-tests-even-in-usada-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges St-Pierre says it’s “still easy” for fighters to beat drug tests, even in USADA era"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Georges St-Pierre’s eyes, performance-enhancing drug use is still a major problem in the UFC. Although the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has been working diligently to punish fighters who seek to gain an advantage with banned substances, St-Pierre feels there are still plenty of cheaters slipping through their nets.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven now, it\u2019s still easy to [cheat]. Even now,\u201d St-Pierre said recently during an appearance on\u00a0The Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>\u00a0(transcribed by MMA Fighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say I want to have an injection of a product that will last in my body for two days or one day. So I know that particular day I cannot be tested, because if I am, I\u2019m screwed. So I put on my [USADA] whereabouts [app] that I\u2019m traveling to freakin\u2019 Antarctica or anywhere, somewhere that is believable, and then I come back two days after. That substance will stay in my body for a certain period of time, but the effect of it will last maybe a month. And now we\u2019re talking about performance enhancing drugs \u2014 people, they misunderstand this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey go, \u2018Well yeah, but it still doesn\u2019t make a difference.\u2019 Yes, it does make the different in an athlete,\u201d St-Pierre continued. \u201cAnd the reason, in the eighties and before, [PEDs gave] you more power, more stamina, more endurance. Now, man, with the technology, they have stuff that will change your reaction time, your confidence, your reset time. And this is a huge, huge application, man. If you play baseball or you\u2019re fighting, you see the things coming, you have your reaction time, you\u2019re sharper in the brain. What makes a guy athletic, it\u2019s not his muscle. The reason why Usain Bolt ran faster \u2014 there\u2019s many reasons why, but one of the main reasons is because his brain, his nervous system is faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you make your nervous system better and more competent, you\u2019re a better athlete. You\u2019re a better fighter, you\u2019re a better baseball player. You\u2019re a better person, in a way. Of course that effect is limited, but there\u2019s still the muscle memory thing that will last and it could last forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

St-Pierre continued:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to catch people. So like I said, it\u2019s easy to take something. There is a always a chance that you get caught, but if I would do it, that\u2019s how I would do it. I would pretend I\u2019m going to Antarctica, get an injection, then I come back and I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think of Georges St-Pierre’s comments on the UFC’s performance-enhancing drug problem?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/4\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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