M-1 Global released a statement on Wednesday regarding Kiril Sidelnikov's positive test for Stanozolol on the heels of his losing effort against Paul Buentello at Affliction's "Day of Reckoning."
Representatives from M-1 explained that Sidelnikov had trained outside the M-1 family (Russian Imperial Team) and got himself into trouble there.
"Kirill indicated that during that time away he began to experience complications from a broken nose that he had recently sustained," said the release. "Not wanting to miss any training time leading up to Day of Reckoning,' Kirill followed the advice of a coach not affiliated with M-1 who gave him a nose spray commonly used in Russia to help treat some of his symptoms. It is M-1's belief that the nose spray is what contained the Stanozol.
"For those that are skeptical of this explanation, we believe Kirill's account is true based in large part to his physique. If he had been using large amounts of Stanozol on a regular basis, we believe that the frame of his upper body would have contained leaner muscle that had more definition.
"While we do not believe the use of a nose spray provided Kirill with an unfair competitive advantage, we are obviously very disappointed in his lapse of judgment. Even though it was only a common nose spray that he used to treat an injury, an athlete must take full responsibility for what he puts into his system at all times. While we are not citing youth as an excuse, we feel we need to offer the public an explanation and we attribute the mistake in part to the fact that Kirill is just 20-years of age.
"In spite of our disappointment, Kirill remains a part of the M-1 family and as such, he can continue to count on our support through this turbulent period. While we do not endorse his actions, we stand by him.
"M-1 takes full responsibility for Kirill's actions and we respect the decision of the California State Athletic Commission. The organization would also like to make it clear that we do not condone the use of performance enhancing drugs of any kind and we'd like to hereby apologize to the MMA community for Kirill's indiscretion."
So, there you have it: the smoking nose.
5 comments:
I like how this article points out that a athlete is responsible for what he puts in his body.. but all other MMA critics say an athlete is not responsible for what is rubbed on his body. Even if it can give him, oh .. say .. a competitive edge in slipping out of the rubber guard. I guess in NASCAR, if a driver won a race, but latter was found to have a car that had illegal modifications , mods not aloud in NASCAR .. the focus would be solely on his pit crew, and not the driver. And we would hear the pit crews their explanation that they did not do any illegal modifications .. only were doing a “witch doctor” breathing technique to make the car breath better.
Nice to see B.J reads this aswell...
How could he be on the juice with a pathetic body like that?
B.J. watches NASCAR? Who would have thought? Maybe if he had brought some sand from Hawaii, he could have had a better grip! Besides, this blog is about nose-roids not crybabies!
i guess they call him BABY Jay for a reason... lol
Back to Kiril, I don't think the kid used steroids on purpose, I think training so closely with Fedor would give him more integrity than that.
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