Someone Should Tell Shelby No One Really Cares

I sincerely hope the audience are going to boo her out when she is announced. She is a cheater and even worse, a liar. Had she admitted and taken her 4 years I would have accepted her return, with all her denials and lies, I don’t.

lol you are so intellectually low and naive. Artificial intelligence is going to create a singularity in 13 years and then you won’t be able to die.
have you ever lived a 100 years before? Or even a 1000? Or 100000? No? Because of this you have little certainty you will die- because the loop of “natural” reality could actually make it so humans become, invent ai, and then become merged.

anyone who thinks they will die, obviously has an IQ below 190 HAHAHAH.

please someone else who only lived less than 100 years tell me so much about the “future” or “past” you’re a fool.

our kids could live forever. Life and death seem like infinite categories but that’s just an ontological uncertainty and falsehood.

anyone here argues against me is an pseudo intellectual.

In the grand schemes of things, nothing really matters. We live, we die. You may be remembered for a while if you made some kind of significant impact but even then, one day existence will end and there will be nothing.

So whatever someone finds joy and importance in, they should just go with it and own it.

Now Shelby is a liar and a cheat. She did her time and is ready to compete again. Good for her. I won't be rooting for her.

But by your logic, basically nothing except world history actually matters. The Olympics are recorded for history, but nobody in the far future will care about the other stuff.

So yes, you are kind of right. But we don't use the "will anyone in 60 years care" as the measuring stick for caring about things now.

Graham Blanks winning NCAA cross "doesn't matter" either, but I still care. Shelby's career doesn't matter but we all care (since we are posting) or are at least curious.

Gatlin, Coleman, Gay - US top springs all popped no one cares and it might be awkward for like a race, drop a 3:57 in a 1500 and no one will care.

Easy to say with hindsight, it's not important. If running is the only thing you've had success at in life and you're near the end of your career, it's another matter altogether.

The above, and also

-Reform and become clean by never taking any drugs again, including alcohol. Renounce her beer mile record.

-Get a real job, perhaps working for a non-profit or volunteering for a social service organization.

-Agree to race Marion Jones in a 400 meters (in 10 years).

-Become a nun.

Yep!

How she rebounds from this will be very interesting. I'd also have some serious anxiety issues if I were her. That being said, she is now in a "No Win" situation no matter how she performs. If she runs well, she will need to run faster than before and be an open book with regard to drug testing. The only problem with that is she's 31 and the odds of her running faster are against her. If she runs poorly, everyone will say "Told you so, she doped". I'd like to think she was innocent, and by her putting herself back into the arena she is saying "Hey, I'm not a cheater, I didn't knowingly dope, and I'm gonna run my A$$ off and hope for the best possible result. Win or lose, I'm not hiding or making excuses". The real issue here is even if she didn't knowingly ingest Nandrolone, it WAS IN HER SYSTEM, no matter how it got there, it was there and did it enhance her performance? One would have to say YES.

Nandrolone defined:

It promotes a rapid increase in muscle mass as well as an individual's strength, thus overloading the locomotor system. Injuries, such as tearing of ligaments and tendons and damaged cartilage, are described among users of these steroids.

yeah I remember that-his 10k also went to 27 high from 29 flat or so in a year-sure tells you what EPO can do...

Actually people care a lot. Look at the number of posts in every Shelby thread.

I care.

Hope she does well

The one who got caught doping and said it was from pork from a nasty food truck? Most ridiculous story ever. What professional athlete eats crap from a food truck!

Yeah, it doesn't matter to you. But it does matter to the women who she cheated out of championships, records, professional contracts, money, etc.. Those races make or break careers.

heck yeah it can !🚀

The three experts I've seen commenting on that said 15 - 30 seconds over 5,000 and up to 60 seconds over 10,000 - for the elite. That could be more for high responders or sub-elite like a 14:14 runner.

I care. Nobody cares that I care. I’d like her to kick some ass just because.

Shelby not only tainted her own reputation, she cast suspicion on her entire training group. And she has been treated by the media with kid gloves, relative to athletes who doped in the past. I don't know if this is because she was associated with Nike's more reputable elite training group, she had a good reputation in the sport prior to the PED bust, or something else. If I remember correctly, she was almost allowed to compete at USAs on the grounds that she was in the appeals process. That is ridiculous.

I'm not going to lose sleep over her, but I don't want to see her compete, and I will be actively annoyed to see her on the track again. I'm not curious about the performance of a known doper. The fact that these athletes are allowed to compete ruins the sport for me. At this point, it's rare for me to care about any running performance aside from those of non-professional local runners who are running out of pure love of the sport and have little incentive to dope.

And, as I mentioned above, I don't understand why there have been so many sympathetic stories about her in the press. I'm not interested in a sob story about how hard it is for her to come back under a veil of suspicion because I don't think she is innocent. There's a chance that I'm wrong, but I doubt it. She looked and performed like she was on drugs in the few years leading up to her ban. Her body composition changed though she had been training as an elite for several years, and her face looked different.

Yet you posted here that you remember 15 years ago. First sign of disingenuous statements is using the word “literally” as if not using the word would indicate “possible untruth.”

Sorry, but we remember all the dopers.

I agree that we don't really care about the doping. She did her time amd she is getting more attention here than Graham Blanks. That tells her all she needs to know. We have been awaiting her return to greatness.