The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced Monday a rare non-athlete sanction related to its UFC partnership. The company revealed Dr. Lucas Penchel, based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has accepted a two-year sanction for a violation of the USADA-UFC policy by providing intravenous infusions to UFC middleweight Paulo Costa , as well as his brother, Carlos Costa, in 2017. Although the IVs consisted of “permitted substances,” the amounts administered on the particular dates were over the allowable limit of more than 50 mL per six-hour period
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Doctor who gave IVs to UFC’s Paulo Costa gets two-year USADA suspension – MMA Junkie