POLL: Do you believe Shelby Houlihan is guilty or not?

Freedom is a path seldom walked by the multitudes wrote:

Polygraphs are hundred percent accurate! It's rock solid science!

It's all based on the science of the fact that a liar will perspire. A liar will always perspire. And quite often their pants will be on fire if you see someone's pants on fire, they are certainly lying

Polygraph testers are people who are trained to spot people with their pants on fire

The fact that there were no smoke alarms going off at the press conference was an excellent sign

A lot of polygraph testers would be out of business if more people knew this

My take is GUILTY.

I speculate that she was dabbling in the grey area with supplements such as nandrolone precursors that are readily available at any GNC or vitamin shop. Bodybuilders and gym rats use these things in stacks all the time. If you can buy it at GNC, it's legal...right? So, she gets the burrito which may have contained contaminated meat, pig testicles, or whatever. While the meat itself would not produce super high numbers, it might when combined with the above supplements and that caused her urine to glow brightly.

Are she and the BTC brain trust lying? No. She wasn't knowingly doping. This would also explain the polygraph test. She was using legal supplements not on the WADA banned list hence, was not taking illegal substances. This could also explain why her legal team may not have been able to replicate the findings since they didn't have the correct recipe of supplements/tainted meat to get the same numbers and the hair sample would not show prolonged use of nandrolone (which is questionable since nandrolone has an extremely short half life).

Now, athletes need to know exactly what they are consuming and can face consequences for putting any combination of stuff into their bodies. This, in my opinion, is what happened. Poor choices were made, a food order was potentially botched, and the drug testers came at a very inopportune time. That combination triggered the big positive numbers and rules are rules. If she and her legal team could not meet the burden of proof at CAS, then these are the consequences.

Dude stop being a gullible fool! It's not because of supplements and it's not because of eating a burrito. She was injecting steroids right into her muscle. That's the only way you get that high of number

The burrito was a total BS story, they don't even serve that kind of meat in the United States. It's impossible to get. You have to eat a pound of it to get close to her number.

The burrito is a complete BS story and your pedaling more nonsense like a conspiracy Crock-Pot

MidFootStriker wrote:

Dude stop being a gullible fool! It's not because of supplements and it's not because of eating a burrito. She was injecting steroids right into her muscle. That's the only way you get that high of number

The burrito was a total BS story, they don't even serve that kind of meat in the United States. It's impossible to get. You have to eat a pound of it to get close to her number.

The burrito is a complete BS story and your pedaling more nonsense like a conspiracy Crock-Pot

Agreed, this isn't some hobby jogger! This isn't someone from your local gym who's doing some supplements for an edge

This is a world-class athlete who is working with a team of people. They know what they're doing! They're not messing around with supplements from GNC. And they're not eating food from random food trucks.

no like her or the tats.......but I don't think she is a drug cheat

Wasn’t injecting ruled out?

toozy wrote:

Wasn’t injecting ruled out?

According to the BTC press team it was. The BTC press team also was snaky with their wording throughout the process so I am not ruling anything out.

The CAS report will (hopefully) shed light into all the grey areas.

btc =/= CAS wrote:

toozy wrote:

Wasn’t injecting ruled out?

According to the BTC press team it was. The BTC press team also was snaky with their wording throughout the process so I am not ruling anything out.

The CAS report will (hopefully) shed light into all the grey areas.

Guys stop being so gullible nothing was ruled out. Stop Believing the nonsense spin you here. She was injecting steroids

"Nandrolone esters are used in the treatment of anemias, cachexia (wasting syndrome), osteoporosis, breast cancer, and for other indications. They are not used by mouth and instead are given by injection into muscle or fat."

This from a medical site I just looked at.

When the news broke about SH I was sad but not surprised.

I may be naive but I doubt the drug testing agencies would hand down a maximum ban from inadvertently eating a bad burrito.

It had to be much much more than that in my opinion.

I want to believe her but the evidence is too much to disregard.

I'm not a judge or jury, so I won't give a verdict either way... but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck.

I cant wait to read the CAS report and come to my own conclusion that white Americans are still the most virtuous people on earth and we continue to get robbed of medals by those cheating Africans.

I have never heard of Nandralone but let's check my hair to prove I don't do this all the time....at best I am very sceptical....could not break into top 7 in NCAA cross but now top few in the world at 5k....hmmmmmm

i am saying innocent.

after reading the Jonathan Gault piece.

Blatantly guilty

Guilty. Her name goes down with Lance.and Baffert.

As per available evidence, guilty

Answer: I don't know.

Truer Answer: I would love the answer to be innocent.

Shelby seems to be universally beloved by her teammates and coaches. It would be horrible to be in the shoes of someone who didn't cheat, yet had a positive drug test. If she's innocent, my God, that would be excruciating for her. And her family too. Friends, all that.

MichaelWhelan wrote:

Answer: I don't know.

Truer Answer: I would love the answer to be innocent.

Shelby seems to be universally beloved by her teammates and coaches. It would be horrible to be in the shoes of someone who didn't cheat, yet had a positive drug test. If she's innocent, my God, that would be excruciating for her. And her family too. Friends, all that.

She’s a skank cheat. She’ll be eating from the garbage after Nike ditch her. Dirty cheat. Salty tears.

you suk boy dik wrote:

MichaelWhelan wrote:

Answer: I don't know.

Truer Answer: I would love the answer to be innocent.

Shelby seems to be universally beloved by her teammates and coaches. It would be horrible to be in the shoes of someone who didn't cheat, yet had a positive drug test. If she's innocent, my God, that would be excruciating for her. And her family too. Friends, all that.

She’s a skank cheat. She’ll be eating from the garbage after Nike ditch her. Dirty cheat. Salty tears.

Unless there is a reason for Nike to keep her under contract for the next four years.

Guilty