This among other things would be nice to know. I agree with other posters, Shelby’s only relevance to the sport is the insider information she has on doping. If she doesn’t want to share it, no one should take any interest in how she’s staying “present”
... she's getting a degree in Sports Performance and Psychology hoping to be a mental skills coach, and "make the sport better". She said the words "sports psych" popped up to her on a run when she was thinking about what she wanted to do afterwards..."
Surprised it's not sports nutrition. After all, that's what she credited her progress to.
... she's getting a degree in Sports Performance and Psychology hoping to be a mental skills coach, and "make the sport better". She said the words "sports psych" popped up to her on a run when she was thinking about what she wanted to do afterwards..."
Surprised it's not sports nutrition. After all, that's what she credited her progress to.
It is an important topic, but she found it too boaring.
The one and only way she can make the sport better is to tell the truth. What did she take, who provided it to her, and for how long has she been doing it. That's the only way. No one wants to take mental skills advice from a runner who cheated her way up the ladder.
Here's another summary.
Maybe she already told the truth, but was simply unable to prove that a rarely occurring event happened to her, lacking the necessary evidence. While it is unlikely to happen to any specific athlete, like winning the lotto or getting struck by lightning, it is likely to happen to someone somewhere, given enough opportunities and time, also like winning the lotto or getting struck by lightning. If she won the lotto, but destroyed 2/3rds of the ticket and threw the rest away -- how can she prove it one month later?
Recall the "expert" at the trial conceded that intact boars can pass by USDA inspectors, using his figure, some figure less than 12,000 boars per year in the USA, either unnoticed, or based on a sniff test, and conceded that boars ate more soy during the pandemic, which would easily lead to both the amount and the pseudo-endogenous CIR test results found in Shelby's sample.
A positive result would have been more likely than the expert conceded, during supply issues during the pandemic, given shortages of corn, pigs, USDA inspectors, and delays in slaughter for medically castrated boars, etc. Given enough opportunites, it is only a matter of time before some athlete somewhere tests positive for ingestion of nandrolone from pork, and that likelihood only increased during the pandemic.
While her defense focused mainly on pork, another rarely occurring source is a bad batch of contaminated vitamins or supplements. This is similarly hard to prove, if you have consumed that batch before being put on notice. Her testing of the vitamins and supplements she did have were all negative, so she couldn't argue that possibility at the CAS without such evidence. But like pork, this also remains a possibility she could neither prove, nor rule out.
The problem for any athlete who tests positive for nandrolone from eating pork in the USA, or alternatively from a contaminated supplement, is that it is a rare event, and difficult to prove it happened to them, when put on notice one month after the fact while lacking any of the potential sources. Under a principle of "strict liability", it is an uphill battle, with a ticking clock for athletes who want to qualify for the Olympics.
The other problem for any accused athlete is that, since 2015, intent is presumed, and unless the athlete can succeed in solving the first problem, the default finding will be an intentional violation leading to a 4-year ban. Under WADA rules, the anti-doping organization does not have to prove intent, and does not have to prove other conjectured rarely occuring alternatives, i.e. pseudo-endogenous supplements that can be purchased through Amazon, but has the luxury of presumption of intentional doping.
Reminder that the "evidence" of her doping was extremely weak. She's certainly cleaner than the Kenyans and EPOpians she competed against.
Let me guess: you got this info from the "dark" web, certainly not a place Shelby would ever hang...Uggh you and your "clean" (read: race bating) routine.
The one and only way she can make the sport better is to tell the truth. What did she take, who provided it to her, and for how long has she been doing it. That's the only way. No one wants to take mental skills advice from a runner who cheated her way up the ladde
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The other problem for any accused athlete is that, since 2015, intent is presumed, and unless the athlete can succeed in solving the first problem, the default finding will be an intentional violation leading to a 4-year ban. Under WADA rules, the anti-doping organization does not have to prove intent, and does not have to prove other conjectured rarely occuring alternatives, i.e. pseudo-endogenous supplements that can be purchased through Amazon, but has the luxury of presumption of intentional doping.
If you are Shelby's mom, I find this last paragraph interesting. Are you suggesting that she might have ordered the Nor-DHEA off of Amazon? Because, that's doping lol.
I don't know who, if anyone, is giving her advice.
But PR wise, she needs to disappear. Don't do no podcasts, don't train with your team, no social media, don't have a relationship with the sport, just disappear. For 4 years. Innocent or guilty, just disappear.
Come back in 4 years and everyone has forgotten the situation. Staying in the public eye and continuing to bring up the situation is doing no good and giving more people more ammo.
Lol. This is the podcast host going "wooaaah I didn't know that!" after every interview they do, where they are criticized by ignoring every elephant in the room?
We should compile a list of all the people rekrunner has been accused of being. I remember a few years ago people thought he was Paula Radcliffe.
I think it's an often used handle of Freud's PR farm to defend Nike athletes. Go back a year or two, and note the very different styles, from pretend-logical to IAAF-is-always-right to nowadays' walls of texts full of maybes/faith/illusion/"expert"/overly-agressive-AIU/IAAF-is-wrong followed by insulting Armstrong and Coevett. Common features remain that either the athlete didn't dope or it didn't help him/her or both.
That’s a heck of a quote on the thumbnail there. But in her case, I don’t think it was worth taking that risk.
Hard to say. Yes, she got caught, but she did manage to break records and make 6 figures for a couple of years, and gets to keep it all. I bet it was at least financially a net plus (especially if she soon gets a real job).
And honestly, running is an obscure enough sport where she could settle into a "normal" life and be relatively anonymous. Especially if she stopped going by Shelby Houlihan -- got married, used a variant of her real first name, or straight up changed her name, whatever. If she got an office job and never mentioned she was an Olympian most people wouldn't think to look into her (and using a different/variant name would hide her past from the Googlers and facebook stalkers).
But she doesn't strike me as the type to lay low, does she? :D
I don't know who, if anyone, is giving her advice.
But PR wise, she needs to disappear. Don't do no podcasts, don't train with your team, no social media, don't have a relationship with the sport, just disappear. For 4 years. Innocent or guilty, just disappear.
Come back in 4 years and everyone has forgotten the situation. Staying in the public eye and continuing to bring up the situation is doing no good and giving more people more ammo.
Forgotten the situation? Come on.
If I was her, I probably wouldn’t want to comeback and have to deal with the “cheater” label.
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