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A week in UFC 232, a story moved MMA's back on Sunday (23): an anti-doping test found traces of steroidal turinabol in Jon Jones' body. The former light heavyweight champion (93 kg) was to play the title again on Saturday (29), against Alexander Gustafsson in Las Vegas (USA).
As Dana White, president of the organization, told the site "MMA Junkie", the entire event will be transferred to Inglewood, in the US state of California , and executed the same day. As the show was scheduled for Vegas and the Nevada State Sports Commission (NSAC) would need time to review the outcome of the exams, the entity authorized Jones to cancel the license application for fighting in the city.
California had already approved the authorization to fight in the US state, the court having recently ruled the athlete for the use of the same substance, which he has reported in 2017. Jeff Novitzky, vice president of health and performance of the UFC, told the site "MMA Junkie", the current situation of Jon does not put in place a positive doping control. According to him, USADA thinks it 's about a residual amount of the substance found in Jon' s body last year.
Novitzky stated that the amount of turinabol metabolites found in the test that caused the change. from UFC 232 is in the order of picograms. "If you put a gram of salt on a table and you divide it into 50 million pieces, a picogram will be one of those pieces of that gram of salt." These levels appear in one and two picogram numbers – so a very small amount, "he said.
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