MMAFighting.com’s Luke Thomas raised the interesting possibility of Jon Jones using a tainted drink defense over his positive turinabol test to escape punishment, citing the recent case of curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii and others as precedent.
When I broke down the potential punishment lengths Jones was facing from USADA, and the potential arguments he could raise, a spiked drink wasn’t included. This wasn’t because of an oversight, but because various factors make it extremely unlikely for that argument to work. I decided to re-examine the possibility in light of some successful and unsuccessful claims of drink spiking in the last few months.