They are both involved, (or were involved or arent involved depending on who you believe) with VADA.
VADA (The voluntary anti doping agency).
In a nutshell, athletes (primely boxers and MMA fighters), can register with VADA. They put you through an extensive testing program (that they dont like to actually explain what it is), and at the end of it they tell everyone you are clean. Well they put out a statement saying "Athlete X has passed VADA" but dont actually say what that involves.
VADA (Apart from the glaringly obvious name because very close to WADA), make all sorts of spurious claims like "We work in partnership with WADA", "We are partners with WADA", "We are WADA approved" and spread these claims around various boxing an MMA forums and message boards.
Catlin is an advisor
http://vada-testing.org/don-catlin-md-scientific-advisor/
Daamsgard was also listed as one of their "affiliates" but mysteriously in the last month his name has vanished from the site and its now only down as Clearidium. Word got around in the MMA community that Daamsgard had history and they reworded his listing.
http://vada-testing.org/affiliates/
And i you really want a laugh, Victor Conte in various interviews has claimed everything from being "the brains behind the creation of VADA" to "having nothing to do with VADA at all"
Basically they are doing the same old **** they did in cycling and other sports, and they have the entire boxing and MMA community fooled. Most fans in those sports are so lacking in basic understanding that the mere WADA/VADA similarity is enough to convince them that Conte, Daamsgard, and Catlin are the good guys.
VADA (The voluntary anti doping agency).
In a nutshell, athletes (primely boxers and MMA fighters), can register with VADA. They put you through an extensive testing program (that they dont like to actually explain what it is), and at the end of it they tell everyone you are clean. Well they put out a statement saying "Athlete X has passed VADA" but dont actually say what that involves.
VADA (Apart from the glaringly obvious name because very close to WADA), make all sorts of spurious claims like "We work in partnership with WADA", "We are partners with WADA", "We are WADA approved" and spread these claims around various boxing an MMA forums and message boards.
Catlin is an advisor
http://vada-testing.org/don-catlin-md-scientific-advisor/
Daamsgard was also listed as one of their "affiliates" but mysteriously in the last month his name has vanished from the site and its now only down as Clearidium. Word got around in the MMA community that Daamsgard had history and they reworded his listing.
http://vada-testing.org/affiliates/
And i you really want a laugh, Victor Conte in various interviews has claimed everything from being "the brains behind the creation of VADA" to "having nothing to do with VADA at all"
Basically they are doing the same old **** they did in cycling and other sports, and they have the entire boxing and MMA community fooled. Most fans in those sports are so lacking in basic understanding that the mere WADA/VADA similarity is enough to convince them that Conte, Daamsgard, and Catlin are the good guys.