Sha’Carri Richardson Tests positive

rt6 wrote:

Is weed really performance enhancing? Why is it even on the banned list?

This but LRC is surely a rules are rules crowd. Hopefully this will get weed off of the list tho but she'll miss the Olympics. Career won't be completely ruined tho since it's not a steroid.

There are some harder drugs it still could be or was THC confirmed?

Come on and weigh in Rojo…

Is there anyone here that DIDN'T think Sha'Carri smoked weed?

GTFOH with that . She'll get this overturned, it's non performance enhancing. She'll be reinstated by next week.

Laws against weed are a byproduct of actual systemic racism. It's the most overrated drug out there, anyway.

Can’t she simply use the Canadian snowboarder story

I was at a party

A lot of people were smoking weed

I inhaled second hand smoke

He got out with that story

How does the USA field an Olympic basketball team?  Weed use in the NBA is epidemic.

SeattleSilver wrote:

wannabepro25 wrote:

She tweeted “I am human” 6 hrs ago… that’s all the proof you need.

I understand wanting confirmation from US sources, but for the record The Gleaner has been the major morning newspaper in Jamaica for over 180 years.

The Gleaner breaking the story and being the only source saying she would miss the Olympics for the past hour screams sensationalism.

I would trust a Flotrack report more then that.

Her tweet this morning is obviously telling though

Smokie wrote:

Is there anyone here that DIDN'T think Sha'Carri smoked weed?

GTFOH with that . She'll get this overturned, it's non performance enhancing. She'll be reinstated by next week.

I do think there is a good chance it will be overturned. But will it be overturned in time for her to make the Olympics? Courts don't always move so fast.

steeplepeople wrote:

How does the USA field an Olympic basketball team?  Weed use in the NBA is epidemic.

It’s banned by USATF not the IOC.

Vin Lananna should resign immediately if she is banned

#freeshacarri

Who tf cares who smokes weed?! Let Sha’Carri run unless she’s found to have actually taken PEDs (eg nandrolone)

steeplepeople wrote:

How does the USA field an Olympic basketball team?  Weed use in the NBA is epidemic.

That’s what I’m talking about. I’ll never touch the stuff but soccer moms and teachers in my church smoke that stuff from what my wife has told me.

"It's not addictive" say all the pot heads! What kind of a grip does it have on folks to give away so much for it!

How is weed still on the books? They could and should have removed that ten years ago. It was inevitable this was going to happen to someone, and no one is vindicated at all. Everyone loses here, especially the athlete banned for something that probably decreases performance, if anything.

Terrible situation for track.

Dude, you're funny. Talk about the NHL where cocaine use is rampant,. They pretty much all do it and no one gets suspended. Unbelievable but true.

Why should she resign?

Don’t these people know the rules?

Just follow the rules?

Stop being apologists for people who knowingly don’t follow the rules.

That’s why are society is so messed up and criminals are running wild 24/7.

It’s the same thing; no consequences for violating rules.

Sure.

How do you write an article like the Jamaica Gleaner one and not even mention the specific drug?

Jamaica Gleaner wrote:

Since January 1, 2021, the drug has been classified as a 'Substance of Abuse' by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and currently carries a maximum four-year ban.

So per that paragraph it must be either heroin, cocaine, MDMA, or weed which others have speculated:

if it's just weed, i'm thinking no way should this charge be upheld but who knows. i wasn't as sympathetic to the Houlihan situation but this does make me feel bad for Richardson if her career is tainted forever for a "substance of abuse" that didn't enhance her performance.