she handled it very badly. she could have accepted liability without admitting she intentionally doped and still got the 3 years. to proceed with the story she had, which never had any chance of succeeding, was madness.
It wasn’t madness -there were experts that believed her, but CAS didn’t obviously…
she handled it very badly. she could have accepted liability without admitting she intentionally doped and still got the 3 years. to proceed with the story she had, which never had any chance of succeeding, was madness.
It wasn’t madness -there were experts that believed her, but CAS didn’t obviously…
She took 4 years probably because she is innocent, but who knows -no athlete can prove with 100% accuracy themself clean / food contaminated (no such test yet)…
"probably" lol. On the contrary.
Fact: she didn't need to prove it, she only had to come up with a "possible" scenario, not a "possible but improbable" one, let alone a scenario with a cascade of several "possible but improbable" and "possible but highly improbable" events which all would have to have occurred simultaneously.
She's not going to admit to something she didn't do - I wouldn't either. I respect her so much
Me too. Shelby is innocent and not sure why some users on here think jokes about her situation are funny. How would you like it if it happened to you.
She has been proven impossible. Believing her is turning a blind eye. It’s sad how dirty she was and is. That sh!t didn’t just show up in her system for no reason and a total mystery. Everyone who knows anything understands she cheated.
Unfortunately, her story falls in line with a long history of doping excuses: Adri van der Poel blamed a pigeon pie (yes, you read that correctly).
- Floyd Landis blamed dehydration from drinking whiskey. - Alberto Contador blamed a tainted steak from Spain. - Petr Korda blamed veal. - Gilberto Simoni blamed spiked Peruvian sweets. - Alexi Grewal blamed muffins.
^^^ This. That will be joke for the ages, like the sex with the wife.
I bet it was PR: she took one for the team, in order to reduce the doping questions BTC would otherwise get bombarded with. In turn she got this absurd press conference with all those embarrassing lies, and ongoing verbal support from the other BTC members, and enough cash so she could keep training during those years without needing a real job.
Who, in the history of sports, has done such a thing? Did they all draw straws or did Nike threaten her family?
Most athletes who got popped claimed innocence and ended up with 4 years instead of 3, had they admitted guilt. That's not exactly news. KIprop for one, but you can have a look at the public AIU list to find tons more.
she talks about this on The Running Effect podcast. she was adamant about her innocence and spent money on lawyers and scientists to help her appeal. she actually made a pretty compelling case, but the CAS didn't even look at her evidence, just immediately upheld the ban. they didn't talk to her or explain their reasoning. it was pretty heartless.
In hindsight perhaps admitting to it and taking a shorter ban was the right call, but at the time she truly thought showing the evidence in her defense was the better call. even her lawyers, who had worked with other athletes in similar situations, were convinced the overwhelming evidence proving her innocence or at the very least proving it was all an accident, would exonorate her or at least lessen the ban.
she talks about this on The Running Effect podcast. she was adamant about her innocence and spent money on lawyers and scientists to help her appeal. she actually made a pretty compelling case, but the CAS didn't even look at her evidence, just immediately upheld the ban. they didn't talk to her or explain their reasoning. it was pretty heartless.
In hindsight perhaps admitting to it and taking a shorter ban was the right call, but at the time she truly thought showing the evidence in her defense was the better call. even her lawyers, who had worked with other athletes in similar situations, were convinced the overwhelming evidence proving her innocence or at the very least proving it was all an accident, would exonorate her or at least lessen the ban.
Sounds like what Floyd Landis did. Spent over $2 million fighting the positive test, until he finally admitted that he was dirty.
she talks about this on The Running Effect podcast. she was adamant about her innocence and spent money on lawyers and scientists to help her appeal. she actually made a pretty compelling case, but the CAS didn't even look at her evidence, just immediately upheld the ban. they didn't talk to her or explain their reasoning. it was pretty heartless.
More lies. Of course CAS looked at the evidence. Quite thoroughly actually. With her lawyer and herself and her chosen experts present. Then they explained their reasoning. In writing.
That is well documented of course. Her excuses are getting more and more ridiculous.
The facts are simple: She tested positive, her appeal failed to provide sufficient explanation to overturn the positive test.
Everything else is conjecture or theories, no one knows if she truly doesn't know how she tested positive or not. Unless she is going to explain how she tested positive and provide evidence of whomever helped her, it doesn't matter. The rules don't require us to know anything else for her to get banned. She chose to appeal, that's why she got years instead of three. All elite athletes should be paranoid about what they put in their bodies so they don't have a test they can't explain, it is part of the job. All jobs have parts that suck.
We know exactly how she got it. She was dating Matt C who liked buying burritos for them. You know, that Matt C who was coached by Salazar who got banned for pushing the grey zone drug use on his athletes.
Nandrolone is not “gray zone”, it’s about as black as you can get.
Fact: she didn't need to prove it, she only had to come up with a "possible" scenario, not a "possible but improbable" one, let alone a scenario with a cascade of several "possible but improbable" and "possible but highly improbable" events which all would have to have occurred simultaneously.
This is not how CAS saw it -they clearly bought some of her explanations (the burrito ++). What they ruled possible, but not probable was uncastrated boars fed on more than average soy coming into the human food chain in the US.
She has been proven impossible. Believing her is turning a blind eye. It’s sad how dirty she was and is. That sh!t didn’t just show up in her system for no reason and a total mystery. Everyone who knows anything understands she cheated.
Sure, so we who raise some questions we don’t understand anything. And neither do the experts (f.ex prof Hallen) who warn about the confusion of food contamination and pills when it comes to low positive numbers in nandrolone tests…