Marco Polo Reyes notified of potential anti-doping violation
USADA has informed Marco Reyes of a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample collected on March 8, 2018.
Mexican UFC lightweight Marco Polo ‘El Toro’ Reyes came tearing out of the The Ultimate Fighter Latin America season 2, winning four of five fights in the UFC, and earning three performance bonuses, two of them the Fight of the Night. Unfortunately, he is the latest fighter to have an anti-doping test flagged.
Via UFC.USADA.org.
The UFC organization was notified today that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has informed Marco Reyes of a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample collected on March 8, 2018.
USADA, the independent administrator of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, will handle the results management and appropriate adjudication of this case involving Reyes. Under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, there is a full and fair legal process that is afforded to all athletes before any sanctions are imposed. Additional information will be provided at the appropriate time as the process moves forward.
Reyes is entitled to a presumption of innocence here. Not every fighter with a flagged test is guilty of PED use. For example, in a little over a year, Ning Guangyou, Li Jingliang, Augusto Montano, and Brandon Moreno each was flagged for Clenbuterol, but eventually found No Fault due to the ubiquity of trace elements of Clenbuterol in the food chain in Mexico and China. Reyes is of course from Mexico. But neither does that alone exonerate him. As noted, there will be to a full and fair investigation, with full details becoming known in time. Until the full story comes out, it’s wrong to assume Reyes is a doper.