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Gennady Golovkin thinks Canelo, De La Hoya are doping cheats
By GREG BEACHAM to pretend it's not happen- In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, Gennady Golovkin attends a marks, Oscar and every
AP Sports Writer ing." news conference in Las Vegas. other lie are outrageous,
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) false and defamatory, and
— Gennady Golovkin plans spoke pointedly about Al- Associated Press we will deal with them ap-
to go ahead with his re- varez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) be- propriately.
match against Canelo Al- fore a workout at his high- Alvarez tested positive for ments. "As for Canelo, he is fo-
varez on May 5, even after altitude training camp in clenbuterol in mid-February "He doesn't sound like a cused on his training," Go-
Alvarez failed a doping test Southern California. For the in the fighters' voluntary an- confident fighter," Gomez mez added. "He didn't
last month. first time, the unbeaten Ka- ti-doping program, and the told The Associated Press in need any more motivation,
But Golovkin also believes zakh middleweight cham- results were revealed two an email. "GGG is trying to but now he has it."
Alvarez is a cheater whose pion repeatedly said he weeks ago. find a way out. If he doesn't The Nevada Athletic
attempt to blame the test believes Alvarez has used Eric Gomez, the president want the fight, he should Commission still hasn't an-
on bad meat is a joke and banned substances for pre- of De La Hoya's Golden just say so. Just last week nounced whether it will
a symptom of more exten- vious fights, including their Boy Promotions, responded he said the exact opposite. level any disciplinary ac-
sive corruption in boxing. first bout last September. sharply to Golovkin's com- His remarks about needle tion against Alvarez, or
"Again with Mexican meat? "It was pretty obvious when even when it might hold a
Come on," Golovkin said (Alvarez's) muscles were all public hearing about its de-
on Tuesday, referencing (enlarged) ... and with the cision. The fight is just over
Alvarez's attribution of his traces of injections, which six weeks away at T-Mobile
failed test to his consump- were visible," Golovkin said Arena in Las Vegas.
tion of tainted meat in his through a translator. "I can If the Nevada commission
native country. talk about Oscar De La postpones the rematch,
"I told you, it's not Mexican Hoya, too. He is also not promoter Tom Loeffler
meat," Golovkin added. clean. He's dirty." echoed Golovkin's interest
"This is Canelo. This is his De La Hoya is Alvarez's in booking a middleweight
team. This is his promo- longtime promoter and a title unification bout with
tion. ... Canelo is cheating. former six-division champi- Britain's Billy Joe Saunders,
They're using these drugs, on. He retired from boxing who holds one of the four
and everybody is just trying in 2008. major belts.q
UCI steps up bid to deter would-be motorized-cycling cheats
By JAMEY KEATEN "The goal is not to find a the magnetic field around UCI President David Lappartient, left, speaks with Jean-Chris-
Associated Press motor when we look for it, the bike frame that could tophe Peraud, Manager of Equipment and the Fight against
GENEVA (AP) — The chief it's of course to show that help tell in real-time wheth- technological fraud of UCI, prior a press conference about Fight
of cycling's governing there aren't any — and er bikes are getting an un- against technological fraud, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednes-
body says it is pulling out that everyone (in cycling) fair boost. Lappartient said day, March 21, 2018.
the technological stops is battling with the same tests are expected over the
to deter would-be cheats weapons," said Lappar- next nine months, and that Associated Press
from sneaking tiny, tough- tient, whose organization is he hopes for deployment
to-detect motors into their based in the Swiss town of next year. cycling could require reli- Lappartient cited UCI's
bike frames, as the sport Aigle. No motors have yet been ance on whistle-blowers or "desire is to protect whistle-
seeks to head off another In particular, UCI officials found in a professional others in the sport to break blowers. We will take any
possible credibility problem demonstrated a white trail- road cycling race, though a wall of silence that has information that will allow
after its longtime doping er in which bikes can be speculation has bubbled plagued the peloton in the our sport to become even
plague. inserted for an X-ray scan up over the years in social past. more credible."q
David Lappartient of UCI that feeds data into a com- media and among some
made the comments dur- puter. wary fans.
ing a media presentation The demonstration claimed "I dare hope that's be-
in Geneva to showcase ex- to reveal on a laptop cause there's no motor in
isting and future tools used screen a motor hidden in- the bike," Lappartient said.
to scan bicycles — mag- side the bike's frame — with "Hoping that it doesn't exist,
netic fields, x-rays, thermal the images reminiscent of and showing it are two dif-
detectors, simple physical those a radiologist might ferent things: And our goal
checks, and other tech- use to inspect a broken is to show it."
niques that could put to bone. Ultimately, though — as
rest swirling speculation UCI is also preparing the with the fight against dop-
that some riders might try to rollout of a magnetic tests, ing — success against pos-
get a battery boost. which gauge changes in sible motorized cheats in
