UFC’s Andrade gets two-year suspension for taking same steroid Cyborg, Sylvia used

Matt Roberts-USA TODAY SportsBack on April 12th, 2016, the UFC announced that Viscardi Andrade had failed a USADA test administered on March 7th. On March 21st, 2017, USADA announced that Andrade had received a 2-year suspension as a result of that failure, backdated to March 20th 2016. The drug Andrade failed for, stanozolol, is the same anabolic steroid Cris Cyborg famously used and received a one-year suspension for back in 2011.

Several other mixed martial artists, including Tim Sylvia, Ken Shamrock and over a dozen others have also failed tests for stanozolol, which is also known as Winstrol. The drug carries a two year suspension under the UFC’s anti-doping policies as it is classed as…