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Dryden "Hobey" McKay ... doping sanction?

DavidNardolillo said:
This is the real lesson. The supplement and vitamin market is the Wild West. There is no FDA oversight and uneven quality control.
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This is the real answer. Of course nobody will be allowed to fix it because the snake oil salesmen have a lock on blocking any form of regulation.
 
Follow up question, why does McKay blame "Vitamin D" in his Twitter statement when the article he clearly orchestrated as a PR piece indicates the tainted supplement was Quercetin?
 
moose97 said:
Follow up question, why does McKay blame "Vitamin D" in his Twitter statement when the article he clearly orchestrated as a PR piece indicates the tainted supplement was Quercetin?
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FABULOUS question. It's called distraction or conflation. The claim was 'taking stuff to protect against Covid' and folks have heard "Vitamin D" so talk about it but he was taking other things as well and your brain will ball all that up in a jumble and lose track of the core facts.

From the SportsNet article

... McKay withdrew from the Olympics, shipped “my proteins, vitamins, everything” to a lab for analysis. Focus zoomed in on a bottle of Quercetin, a plant-based antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that some use as an immune-booster or recovery tool for COVID.​
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The Vitamin D story is coming from McKay's tweet. It wasn't his Vitamin D bottle that was the problem.

The problem was non-NSF-approved, Quercetin with the banned substance in it.

Like I said, if it had been a bad bottle of D, ouch.

But he admits he was taking something not NSF approved (Quercetin), an anti-inflammatory.
 
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pdt1081 said:
Perhaps the NCAA should think about upping their "random drug testing" requirements. He made it through 4 years, and only had to take one because he was participating in the Olympics.
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About the only time NCAA athletes worry about testing is at NCAA (post-season) events. That's about the only time the NCAA tests.


An NDSU FB player got caught in a post-NCAA-playoff-game test a while back. The finger-pointing afterwards was glorious. But it is also a cautionary tale to every student-athlete.
 
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All of this was kept very well under wraps for a long time.

What was USA Olympics' and USA Hockey's involvements I wonder. That'd be a terrible thing (for them) to come out during the Beijing Olympics.


Now it just sucks for McKay, MSU-M, the NCAA, and the Hobey committee.
 
There were twenty two Trillionths of a gram of ostarine, ffs, that had no effect on him. He would have taken way more if he was doing it on purpose.
 
sshablak said:
There were twenty two Trillionths of a gram of ostarine, ffs, that had no effect on him. He would have taken way more if he was doing it on purpose.
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So you're saying a detectable amount of a banned substance.


The main mistake here is taking something not approved by the team and the NSF. It begs the question: why do that. These guys are warned about it time and again.
 
The Sicatoka said:
But he didn't take a Vitamin D supplement, he admits he intentionally took Quercetin.

Did he go to the store and get confused in the spelling between "D" and "Quercetin"?

Quercetin you ask? From WebMD ...

Quercetin has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that might help reduce swelling, kill cancer cells, control blood sugar, and help prevent heart disease.

Quercetin is most commonly used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels and to prevent cancer. It is also used for arthritis, bladder infections, and diabetes, but there is no strong scientific evidence to support most of these uses. There is also no good evidence to support using quercetin for COVID-19.
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First of all you're quoting WebMD, so you're going to get cancer. Just ask them. A hangnail? You have cancer.

Secondly, who the eff cares what scientific evidence supports? Show me the credible scientific study that indicates horse paste is effective against Covid.

The NCAA doesn't want to deal with this and is happy to let others take the lead.
 
1. I think McKay was innocent and it was the manufacturers fault not listing ingredients
2. How messed up is the USADA that they suspend a player and its for 6 months starting out of season? If you are going to suspend a player then make it during their season. Idiotic.
 
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