USADA investigated Cortney Casey’s T:E ratio and found her innocent

On May 26th, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) informed the media that Cortney Casey had “failed” a test for performance enhancing drugs, fined her $5,000, overturned her victory and suspended her for 90 days. Problem is, her test results don’t actually show performance enhancing drug use.

The TDLR took action based on an extremely flawed understanding of drug testing, as I pointed out at the time. Since then the UFC has paid for followup testing on her Texas sample—testing which would be required before declaring guilt under any competent PED testing regimen—and the test came back clean.

As it happens, Casey is under the jurisdiction of a competent PED testing regimen:…