DrAlexHarrison wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
DrAlexHarrison wrote:
AchillesHeal wrote:
I am pleasantly surprised however to see USADA confronting WADA. It gives me a glimmer of hope that there are forces in the world fighting for justice.***climbs up on soapbox***
If you're talking about the UFC Partnership, that partnership is over. Ended in October when McGregor re-entered the testing pool, it was gonna get killed off by Christmas I'm sure as the UFC wanted to move to a more NFL like sanction model (be a lot softer) and USADA didn't want to be a part of that. They now contract out to Drug Free Sport International.
Nah. The USOPC which has an ARR of half a billion dollars mostly from media deals provides roughly 50% of USADA's $30-40M annual operating budget.
Confused about your nah....you meant the organization that makes money by producing entertaining competition wasn't a reference to UFC, but OSOPC? I believe TheStroBro's account of the USADA-UFC relationship is accurate.
All elite - and amateur - sport is about producing entertaining competition so I could understand the confusion.