can you elaborate ? What is the difference between the olympic vs non olympic athlete?
Different testing for different things. I don't think the emphasis is "more or less effective" forms of testing, but more or less efficient forms of testing.
That Olympic athlete competes once in 4 years, so testing them 2000 times in a year doesn't make a difference, there is no actual effect on their performance. They are paid a stable salary by their state while they are competing, and most of them have a paid retirement as well as far as I'm aware of.
Prize fighting is different. You get paid and live based on your performance and have no salary, no state sponsored retirement, nothing. What you make is what you have. They are also performing much, much more than an Olympic athlete.
Jiri is the prime example of USADA going completely overboard. He was tested 64 times in 2022. That's more than any athlete, in any sport, on the planet. While he was in camp for the Glover rematch before getting injured, he was tested
12 times in the month of October alone. Jon Jones at his highest tested year still only managed 42 tests.
The issue that I personally, and I imagine many fighters themselves have, is that an unelected, completely 3rd party organization has a direct impact on the quality of life and performance of fighters who are risking everything to get a payday fighting. I won't go into personal theories about possible biases or corruption at play, but I believe we can all agree that there is no reason a person in camp for a fist fight should be getting woken up at 3am by some dork that wants his piss. There is no logical reason you can give me (no roid has a half life of 3 hours) why you can't come in the morning like a normal fucking person.
USADA wasn't perfect but the amount of BS that was spewed by these two is ridiculous
They went with a conglomerate program that collects samples from all the major sports. But do they also do the testing, because if they do thats extremely shady.
One major player that essentially lets people juice in every sport
It seems to be an issue that truly has no perfect solution.
I'd love to see the highest level combat athletes fighting three times a year completely clean, but that's a farcical goal to have. People were still roiding under USADA, and obviously getting away with it. There are roids in the olympics and have been for decades, some people are acting as though the UFC got rid of the perfect anti-doping agency for nefarious purposes because "muh evil UFC", but I think that's a childish oversimplification of it.