USADA announced Wednesday that UFC's Conor McGregor is returning to USADA's testing pool, the next step ahead of a potential return fight. But CEO Travis Tygart said in a statement that USADA's partnership with the UFC will be over starting Jan. 1, 2024.
has officially been entered back into the drug-testing pool, the next step ahead of a potential return fight. But CEO Travis Tygart's statement in an accompanying news release came with a caveat: USADA's partnership with the UFC will be over beginning Jan. 1, 2024.
"Fighters' long-term health and safety -- in addition to a fair and level playing field -- are more important to USADA than short-term profits at the expense of clean athletes," Tygart wrote in the statement. Tygart wrote that"statements made by UFC leaders and others questioning USADA's principled stance" led to the break between the two organizations. That was a clear reference to an interview UFC president Dana White did in July with TSN, where he said there was a chance McGregor could fight before the end of the year, insinuating he didn't have to be in the drug-testing pool for six months.
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