Often it seems that it takes months to find out the results of a USADA investigation into a flagged drug test. Occasionally, news of the actual suspension duration doesn’t even come to light until the suspension is all but over. So, it’s somewhat surprising then, that just under a month after TUF 25 winner Jesse Taylor was pulled from UFC Sydney over a failed drug test, the verdict is in.
Taylor will serve a 1-year suspension stemming for a positive out-of-competition test for clomiphene, collected on August 22nd. USADA announced the decision in a press release on their website:
“Taylor’s one-year period of ineligibility, the highest sanction for a first offense involving a Specified Substance, began on September 13, 2017,” the statement reads, “the date his provisional suspension was imposed.