01-16-2014, 11:00 PM
DOPING PROTOCOL MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN THAT OF LANCE ARMSTRONG, ACCORDING TO USADA
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Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz Saturday upheld commissioner Bud Selig's suspension of Alex Rodriguez, star baseball player for the New York Yankees, reducing Selig's original 211-game suspension to 162, plus postseason games, for the 2014 season. Rodriquez is accused of doping.
Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against MLB and the MLB Players Association Monday seeking to vacate the ruling, making public Horowitz's detailed report in the process.
A-Rod's regimen, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart told the Associated Press, consisted of "a potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs stacked together to deliver power, aid recovery, avoid detection and create a home run champion."
"No one who cares about clean sports likes to hear it," said Tygart, who led the USADA investigation that led to the lifetime ban of Armstrong for doping. "And don't just take my word for it. Look at the findings of an independent arbitrator who saw all the evidence, sat through the testimony and laid the whole conspiracy out."
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Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz Saturday upheld commissioner Bud Selig's suspension of Alex Rodriguez, star baseball player for the New York Yankees, reducing Selig's original 211-game suspension to 162, plus postseason games, for the 2014 season. Rodriquez is accused of doping.
Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against MLB and the MLB Players Association Monday seeking to vacate the ruling, making public Horowitz's detailed report in the process.
A-Rod's regimen, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart told the Associated Press, consisted of "a potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs stacked together to deliver power, aid recovery, avoid detection and create a home run champion."
"No one who cares about clean sports likes to hear it," said Tygart, who led the USADA investigation that led to the lifetime ban of Armstrong for doping. "And don't just take my word for it. Look at the findings of an independent arbitrator who saw all the evidence, sat through the testimony and laid the whole conspiracy out."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team...z2qcX4Bbqt