Fabricio Andrey isn’t afraid to speak openly about topics that many in the grappling world avoid — including performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).
In a recent appearance on Connectcast, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion offered unfiltered thoughts on doping in the sport:
My sincere opinion about doping – I think there has to be a control… But it’s something that people can fool (the test).
People can. The Olympic people can.
While he supports anti-doping measures in theory, Andrey criticized how testing is often carried out.
In his view, scheduled testing misses the mark:
You want to get there, but you don’t want to inform (the athlete in advance).
You don’t want to just go: “I’ll test you on 25th of May!”
He admits to suspecting certain opponents of being enhanced, particularly when the strength gap was too obvious to ignore:
Have you ever fought with someone who you felt (suspicious about) and said: “Damn it, damn it?”
Regardless of what others might be doing, Andrey says he’s never touched PEDs himself — though he acknowledges that the physical demands of competing at the top are brutal either way:
High performance is not healthy, man.
Watch the entire interview with Fabricio Andrey on the video below:
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