It is well comprehended that the UFC-USADA custom tailored anti-doping policy (“ADP”) generally prohibits Intravenous Infusions. What is not rather as well comprehended are the exceptions to this rule as well as the requirement to comply with overlapping regulatory requirements.
After UFC 209 it was revealed that Alistair Overeem utilized an IV prior to his bout against mark Hunt. As transcribed by MMAJunkie, at the publish fight press seminar Dana White noted that
“(He was) throwing up as well as all the other pleasantries of food poisoning for 24 hours. He was in the hospital, we brought him home, as well as then we had to bring him back to the hospital. They had to fill him with bags of fluids as well as IVs, as well as at one point he was afraid to leave his space since he couldn’t stop throwing up as well Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Canadá as whatever else.”
Overeem went on to verify as follows:
“We went with all the steps necessary…I got truly ill Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Irán as well as yesterday at the weigh-ins I was out. I was low-energy. I put on my acting face, however I had like zero energy. If I felt today as I felt yesterday I would not have been able to perform. I went to the hospital, got an IV, took something to assist me sleep. I might get some food in yesterday before sleeping as well as recovered type of OK“.
So what are the “steps necessary” Overeem is alluding to? There is overlapping regulatory jurisdiction for this bout, namely the policies of UFC/USADA’s ADP as well as those of the Nevada athletic Commission.
The ADP adopts the WADA listing of prohibited methods which bans the complying with methods of chemical as well as physical manipulation –
So, if Overeem’s IV utilize was administrated legitimately “in the program of hospital Camiseta Stade Rennais FC admission” it is not a rule infraction nor is a Therapeutic utilize exemption (“TUE”) needed.
If his IV utilize was out of hospital then he might request a TUE, either promptly or retroactively, for its use.
Turning to Nevada’s policies things differ somewhat.
Nevada just recently overhauled their anti-doping guidelines as well as particularly adopted WADA’s prohibited ‘methods‘ so they as well generally ban IV use.
However, in the overhaul, Nevada carved out a limitation to granting retroactive TUE’s. Specifically Nevada stripped the NAC of power to grant a retroactive TUE for a bout which has already taken location with the rule reading as follows:
If Overeem utilized his IV outside of hospital, as well as if he was not granted a TUE for its utilize ahead of time that would amount to an anti doping infraction under Nevada policies as well as one that cannot be remedied.
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