Karim Zidan spoke to the United States Anti-Doping Association about the biological passport and how it will be used in the UFC.
When the UFC announced their new anti-doping policy and partnership with the United States Anti-Doping Agency, the primary changes that got peoples' attention were the whereabouts policy, the year-round out-of-competition testing, as well as the stringent penalties for positive tests. However, they arguably missed one of the pivotal aspects of the entire program: the Athlete Biological Passport.
Wouldn't it be an advance if drug agencies stopped looking for the next performance enhancing substance and instead focused on establishing what an athlete's normal blood levels and biological variables are before looking for suspicious results?