Carlos Diego Ferreira has accepted a 17-month suspension from USADA from a failed drug test this past spring. The 31-year-old Brazilian fighter declared the use of a product that listed and contained a prohibited substance and tested for another prohibited substance.
Ferreira tested positive for Ostarine as a result of an out of competition test on April 29, 2016. He also listed 7-keto-DHEA on his sample paperwork. Both are prohibited substances in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy.
The release from USADA indicates that Ferreira tested several of the supplement products he was reportedly using at the time of his positive test. Ostarine was not listed on the product label but testing conducted on the product that listed 7-keto-DHEA also contained Ostarine.
Despite the standard two-year period of ineligibility, USADA determined that a reduction to 17-months was justified.
Payout Perspective:
This suspension might be compared with that of Lyoto Machida who took an 18-month USADA suspension. Machida declared the use of 7-keto-DEHA on his sample collection paperwork but his suspension was reduced to 18 months. In Ferreira’s case, he declared the use of one prohibited substance but not another. This makes Machida’s penalty seem uneven. It’s not known if Ferreira attempted to take his case to arbitration. Machida did make an attempt to appeal the decision at first but then decided to accept the decrease of the suspension. Did Machida’s suspension considered when USADA decided to suspend Ferreira for 17-months?
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