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Nick Diaz accepts 12 month USADA suspension for failing to post whereabouts in 2017

Last year, UFC fan favorite Nick Diaz violated the terms of USADA’s drug testing protocol by refusing to post his whereabouts for three separate out-of-competition drug tests.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency requires all UFC fighters to provide updates on their whereabouts in order to enforce random drug tests across the board.

“The accumulation of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping policy violation,” according to USADA, which means Diaz suffered an infraction for his failure to comply on three separate occasions in 2017.

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