Hassan Mead popped - Tests positive for ostarine and is banned for 3 years.

At first, I was super confused why he took the test in the first place.

But on 2nd thought, if he thought he would test negative anyways, totally makes sense why he decided to take the test. Because dodging the test looks much more suspicous than refusing to take it.

Honestly, this is a case where I think his innocence is the most likely conclusion.

If he's retired, why dope?
If he knows he's doping and retired, why take the test?

This actually bums me out that this will hang over him now.

There's a Jake Riley interview where he mentions having to go back to school for his master's as he wasn't getting job offers. He thinks it's from the gap in his resume running pro full-time. This is a guy with a Stanford engineering degree.

1) Yes. Check the feature story on the front page. Dude says he was retired like Lukezic. It took us a while to get this out as it came out right before the US World Cup game.

2) To the guy who said Mead is buff and posted a picture of him, he is 6'2 138. That's not buff. When you stop running and enter the dating pool, most chicks don't like you that then.

3) Once I heard the explanation, I thought this was a nothing story. Then someone pointed out that he must have udpated his whereabouts. VERY GOOD POINT. I've instructed Jonathan Gault to go back to Mead and ask him specifically about this.

4) With so many stories like this, I keep asking myself, "What the hell do agents do to earn their money?" Like Coleman's agent should have been 100% on top of him being where he needs to be each day. Now with retirement, an agent can't submit the paper work. An athlete MUST do it but they should moving forward agents really need to be on top of this. Although I guess it makes sense not to submit it in case you change your mind and decide to come back.

PS. Here is the feature story in case you missed it.

letsrun.com

Hassan Mead Says He Was Retired When He Tested Positive for PEDs in October

Jonathan Gault

The 6-2, 138-lb Mead says a pre-workout drink he bought from a vending machine was the likely source of the PEDs. "I was out there just lifting to gain a bit of muscle." *MB: Hassan Mead popped - Tests positive for ostarine a...

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I believe the whereabouts have a 'default' location on where you'll be, you're only supposed to update it if you are somewhere abnormal during your test time. So he was probably just living his own life, and then they finally showed up in October for the first time in a while, and apparently he took the test. So if he was retired, it's reasonable he was still in the pool for a while. For a runner when you retire you just stop training. The testing people don't know he's done unless he jumps through some hoops. Weird situation. A positive test would mean more if he was actually at a high point in his career.

Sounds like Jake Riley is being too picky with jobs.

If the issue is job experience, a master's degree does not solve that. Now you're a guy with no job experience who is even more expensive.

Working a job that maybe isn't your dream for a couple of years will.

I believe you can set your whereabouts months in advance, or you have them auto-default to your previous whereabouts (i.e. if you had it set to your home every Saturday morning and you forget to update, it will assume the same place and time for the next week) so that's one possibility.

There is a level of stupidity that people like you demonstrate daily online. Please feel free to continue.

Coleman, Brianna McNeal to add to the list.

* Where abouts. Not the most relevant issue. * Retired or not retired. Not the most relevant issue. * Wanting to bulk up in order to date women. Maybe relevant but maybe not. *** The most important issue: It has been stated on this thread that H Mead ingested p.e.d. from a vending machine beverage. If true, the sooner the company is stated, the sooner we can find out. Other athletes in T&F and other sports need to know. All other debates regarding H Mead's positive test are a distraction.

Sounds weird, but I'd like to see a shirtless picture of Mead today. If the dude has gained 15 pounds, that really backs up the retirement claim.

Also, does he have a Strava or something like that? If we saw months of data to support that he was not running, that is more evidence that he considered himself retired.

Finally, tell us exactly what drink he took, show it in the vending machine and have a sample tested. Most vending machines take credit cards now, is there a record of the purchase?

As a Minnesota guy, I really wanna believe his story. If it is true, he should give us every piece of circumstantial evidence he has to back it up.

It is always amusing to observe the shock and consternation on running boards when yet another top athlete is busted. It is like the disbelief when you leave something unattended on a NY city street and turn around and find it gone. Fans are the last to catch on to what has happened to their sport.

No, they were busted by the AIU, like Houlihan.

No it's not, because he moved to a different city in September.

Is Ostarine even approved for legal consumption? I find it doubtful it was in some vending machine drink.

If his workout drink bought at a vending machine story is true (it isn’t), he could sue the drink company because the two SARMs he stacked are not approved for human consumption.
why is he lying about the vending machine drink?

He's lying about the vending machine, but I could see that he was taking ostarine for bodybuilding after retirement. Seems to be a legal gray area.

I can't really help what you see.

I thought I had a solid reputation for being too sceptical and not believing anything put in front of me.

I don’t know about “vending machines”, but lots of easily obtainable “gym supplements” and “workout drinks” contain ostarine and ligandrol even if they aren’t listed. Anyone subject to testing who hasn’t been living under a rock the past few years knows this. It’s the whole reason USADA started recommending NSF certified supplements.

Go race bait somewhere else, moran. Not our fault Hassan was doping and got caught.