Wladimir Klitschko will be randomly tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association throughout training camp for his April 29 showdown with Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium in London.
Klitschko said following a press conference Tuesday at Madison Square Garden to promote their heavyweight title fight that Las Vegas-based VADA will test him during his eight weeks of preparation in Ukraine and Austria. London’s Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) said Tuesday that he wouldn’t fight Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) if both boxers weren’t subject to the most stringent testing for performance-enhancing drugs.
That was fine by Ukraine’s Klitschko, who has been criticized for not regularly participating in Olympic-style blood and urine testing for PEDs.
“I think it’s very important,” Klitschko said. “I’m very supportive of this program. If you want to have a clean sport, you have to get random testing in boxing, Olympic-style. I think it’s tremendously important because a boxing match is not a tennis match. The health of the other person is on the line, and I think doping could give you a gigantic advantage to whatever – conditioning, strength. In any sport, it doesn’t matter which sport, I’m totally against doping and I’ve always been for random testing.”
Klitschko, who’ll turn 41 before he faces Joshua, didn’t specify how many times he has undergone random blood and urine testing before fights.
The former undisputed heavyweight champion only would say that his testing history dates back to when he competed for Ukraine at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. “Since I’ve been an Olympian I’ve been tested,” Klitschko said. “In the past. What is it? Twenty years now, yeah.”
Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
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Ruthless-RKO
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Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
Looks like Vitali will need to quit coke for the next couple of months to help Wladamir cheat his drug screens. That's on the next episode of keeping up with the klitchkos.
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asdfjkl
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Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
Let's watch Wladimir/Vitali their nose and compare them to Wilder his nose.lazboy wrote:Looks like Vitali will need to quit coke for the next couple of months to help Wladamir cheat his drug screens. That's on the next episode of keeping up with the klitchkos.
If you told someone that one of them uses coke, who do you think most random people would pick by just watching the nose?
I think most would pick Wilder.
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montrealsuper
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Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
Since when is Vitali on coke? Got any proof?
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tiny_acres
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Well I'm confident either Klitschko or Joshua will test positive for some type of PED.
I guess it doesn't matter how many tickets are sold. There will not be a fight
I guess it doesn't matter how many tickets are sold. There will not be a fight
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IRLangmaid25
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Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
He means Coca Cola. He admitted to drinking gallons of it.montrealsuper wrote:Since when is Vitali on coke? Got any proof?
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lillywhite14
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Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
Big brother certainly wouldn't have ever agreed to such testing that's for sure! 
Re: Wladimir Klitschko to Be Tested By VADA for Anthony Joshua Fight
I don't have any proof but vaguely remember it in one of the episodes of "Keeping up with the Klitschko's". The one with the special guest appearance by Evan Fields. I could be wrong though.