One of the fighters he has worked with recently is Jean Pascal. Pascal recently tested for three different steroids which eliminated him from being in the co-main event against Badou Jack on the Floyd Mayweather — Logan Paul undercard. Pascal released a statement saying he never knowingly took any form of steroid and has since fired his strength and conditioning coach. Rafael has been given until Sunday to come up with proof of what he has stated or he will be taken to court stated Heredia in a series of Tweets.
This freaking guy thinks he has the freedom to write anything and get away with defamation? The Voice of the People. TBV Reunion Tickets. I have my family and my son. A few high-profile boxers have approached me trying to get dopes. EPO will leave your system in three days. Look at Sebastian Coe, how stupid and ridiculous he looks. What is he talking about?
Maybe he cleaned himself when he washed, but not this sport. Agents get a percentage. He can discuss these issues for hours on end. A life still encapsulated by sporting success, but no longer waged at all cost. As he looks to guide Duno to an odds-defying upset, he believes he's finally found freedom on the other side of the ropes. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. They were a perfect match. Stewart was looking for ways to give his runners an edge.
Heredia was eager to use what he'd learned in college and from his chemist father to make a splash in Olympic circles. So Heredia volunteered to help the ambitious coach get PEDs from Mexican pharmacies -- drugs that would have required a prescription in the U. He also invited Stewart to his father's lab, where according to evidence later collected by USADA, Stewart had blood and urine from his athletes analyzed to make sure they would pass official testing. Over the next five years, Heredia became perhaps the most prolific drug dealer in track and field, a steroids savant who supplied hard-to-detect PEDs to Stewart and a dozen star athletes.
He was also an expert in the contours of high-level cheating, endlessly studying the World Anti-Doping Agency's code so he could crack it. His tentacles reached so deeply into the sport that his client list grew to include Trevor Graham, a track coach with a roster of Olympic stars that included Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Jerome Young. But Heredia couldn't avoid detection by law enforcement forever.
In a federal investigation into the infamous BALCO lab turned up evidence that Heredia was dealing drugs to those track icons. That year, the government's lead agent, Jeff Novitzky, tracked Heredia to a Laredo hotel and confronted him with wiretaps on which he could be heard boasting about his doping operation. Novitzky gave Heredia a life-altering choice: Do the right thing or do time. Heredia chose the former, beginning an odyssey of government debriefings, grand jury appearances and trials that led to Olympic bans against Jones, Montgomery and their coach, Graham.
In the last of his cases, Heredia testified against his old friend Stewart, leading to the coach's lifetime ban in Heredia insists he's proud he took the cooperation route. But she had the opportunity to help out her government and didn't. But they never once have given me the credit in the media. Eventually Heredia shut down. But then he went silent. The reason was that Heredia, ruined in track and field, had returned to Mexico in to plan his next move.
He applied for a teaching job. When that didn't come through, he tried to start his own supplement company but couldn't put the pieces together. Finally, he realized there was one sport that wouldn't care about his murky past because so many in it had murky pasts: boxing. It's about two people who can kill each other. With that transformative win under his belt, Heredia called the powerful Mexican promoter Fernando Beltran, who was representing Marquez in a third fight with Pacquiao.
Marquez had battled Pacquiao to a draw in and lost their rematch by split decision; he needed a win in their November rubber match to lift his career. Heredia told Beltran: "I'm the guy who's going to help you beat Manny. It nearly worked: Marquez lost a majority decision, but most fans and pundits thought he had won decisively.
Realizing, as he puts it, that "only a knockout would get us a win," Heredia went back to his whiteboard to design an even stronger Marquez for a fourth bout.
While he refuses to discuss his precise methods -- "It is my bread and butter; why would I give it away? By the time of the December fight, he had bulging shoulders scaffolding a torso that looked like it was ripped off a rock wall.
When Marquez unveiled that body at the weigh-in, people gasped. Come fight time, Marquez battled through a broken nose to knock out Pacquiao in the sixth round with a thunderous right hook, a win that instantly altered the boxing universe. But his strength coach had just bought himself an avalanche of new scrutiny. That scrutiny is only fueled by the fact that Heredia's father, who says he's retired from his pharmaceutical work, now trails him everywhere he goes, including to his fighters' camps.
All I can do is stay away from all that old stuff and tell the truth, because no matter what I do, people will still say, 'I'm sure he's doing something to this guy. The problem is that boxing doesn't have a PED safety net that lets him prove his skeptics wrong -- or lets them prove that they are right. Without a single league to push uniform drug-testing rules, or a union to negotiate on behalf of all fighters, boxing isn't much further along than it was in the days when pugs wrapped their hands in plaster for an edge.
Though Nevada usually tests fighters on the day of a bout, no state actually requires even that much. Drug rules vary from state to state and from year to year , which lets promoters shop for the friendliest turf. In the case of certain big-money bouts, the two camps will negotiate their own testing programs, if only to create the appearance of a level fight. All of this is exactly as disorderly as it sounds. And to cynics, it's precisely why someone like Heredia is so problematic.
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