Garcia slams officials as positive test overturned

Under-fire boxer Ryan Garcia expects to be cleared of recent positive drug tests after a report from VADA (The Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency) found it could not confirm the presence of 19-Norandrosterone and only traces of banned substance Ostarine.

ESPN reported last week, that Garcia had tested positive for banned substances Ostarine and 19-Norandrosterone, with the latter substance requiring further analysis.

However, further investigation by VADA via Carbon Isotope Ratio testing, as published by respected boxing journalist Dan Rafael, concluded that Ostarine was detected but 19-Norandrosterone "did not confirm".

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The steroid metabolite 19-norandrosterone, was initially flagged as a "possibility", but now has been downgraded to a non-fail.

The analysis also found Garcia only tested positive for trace amounts of Ostarine, which equates to a billionth of a gram in his sample.

Garcia will now be called before the New York Athletic Commission unless the B samples prove otherwise.

The revelation comes as the New York State Athletic Commission head Kim Sumbler resigned, but it's said the resignation has nothing to do with Garcia.

Garcia pounced on the news of his clearance of 19-norandrosterone, taking the news as a full acquittal.

"So yall realise I didn't fail the tests now," he posted. "No substance other than this imaginary ostrich substance... level so low wouldn't have any effect. THEY TRIED BUT NO LIE STANDS PRAISE GOD.

"A billionth of gram found in my system, bruh, you can't make this up," added Garcia. "NYSAC resigns, and everyone is backtracking now.

"Stop messing with me. Defamation lawsuits. To everyone else who tried to claim I cheated, suck a huge one to the point you explode."

Garcia's attorney, Darin Chavez, suggested the levels of Ostarine in his client's system are proof that "we are dealing only with a known supplement contaminant in the billionth of a gram range that provided Ryan Garcia with no performance-enhancing benefit whatsoever on fight night," he told ESPN's Mike Coppinger.

Any amount of Ostarine in a fighter's system is grounds for a positive test but the amount of the substance will be heavily assessed when his B-sample is revealed on May 23 AEST.

If the amount is at a picogram level, some claim that would support claims it came from a contaminated supplement.

"Cleared of 19-norandrosterone per more detailed testing of the April 19 sample," Rafael said. "There's nothing imaginary about PED Ostarine. [Ryan Garcia] Faces hearing and likely punishment for two failed tests.

"[The] Ostarine amount doesn't matter. Some things you can have up to a threshold. Ostarine is not allowed at any level."

Appearing on the Fully Tilted podcast on May 7, Garcia said if he was taking steroids he would have been in much better shape.

Garcia admitted to drinking and smoking cannabis throughout his whole training camp ahead of the Haney fight, saying he was "high as f---" when he stepped in the ring.

"If I was on steroids, I would have been in way better shape," Garcia claimed. "I was literally drinking every day, smoking weed - I did not stop, not even until the f-----g day of the fight. I got in there high as f---, and I beat his ass."