Townsend suggested that he could have come into contact with the banned substances through his day job as a registered nurse and told MMA Fighting: “
One of the most common ways is [through the] mucous membrane.”
If you sleep with somebody or engage in any sexual activity with someone who is a user or who does what they do on the side or whatever, it can get into your system through sweat, different sexual activities.
There’s different ways it can get into your system. That’s one way. But as I said in general, it was three days’ notice…I obviously wasn’t aware or extra careful because I didn’t plan on fighting in the UFC.”
The 33-year-old completed a drug rehabilitation program while serving his sentence for the substances, which are not classified as performance enhancers under USADA rules.
“Me personally, I am not a drug user,” he insisted. “I don’t discriminate, I don’t judge anybody who does drugs personally. What they do in their free time is what they do in their free time.
I took the classes. I was mindful of the information that was given to me, and I just pretty much want to put the whole thing behind me.”
What are the odds that it went down that way?
Highly unlikely. . .
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