- we have athletes going christmas shopping in testing window
-we have athletes having parties in testing window
-we have peple taking weed in the lead up to the biggest moment of their life
-we have people making sham stories about burritos
why are athletes so stupid
This is just another reason why the Olympics have faded so much over the past 3 decades, to where today the majority of the public could careless about Track and Field. The Olympics at one time were such a huge event to the public here in America, now people are just not interested anymore and only the Cult cares.
Track star Sha’Carri Richardson is speaking out about her suspension from the U.S. Olympic team after failing a drug test.
Richardson, 21, was poised to be a favorite in Tokyo after winning the women's 100-meter race last month at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon, with a time of 10.86 seconds. A U.S. Olympic source told NBC News that Richardson failed the test after her win, with her testing positive for THC, the chemical found in marijuana.
"I want to take responsibility for my actions," she told Savannah Guthrie in an exclusive interview Friday on TODAY. "I know what I did, I know what I'm supposed to do ... and I still made that decision."
“Don’t judge me, because I am human… I just happen to run a little faster.”
Sha’Carri Richardson (@itskerrii) speaks with @SavannahGuthrie about her failed drug test.
pic.twitter.com/aZKTDhYn6Z— TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 2, 2021
Richardson accepted a one-month suspension early Friday from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for an anti-doping rule violation.
"Sha’Carri Richardson’s situation is incredibly unfortunate and devastating for everyone involved," USA Track and Field wrote in a statement Friday. "Athlete health and well-being continue to be one of USATF’s most critical priorities and we will work with Sha’Carri to ensure she has ample resources to overcome any mental health challenges now and in the future."
Richardson emerged as a star to watch after her showing at the trials, endearing fans with her eye-catching orange hair, long fingernails, nose rings and tattoos. She also went viral in a heartwarming moment when she sprinted up the stands to embrace her grandmother in celebration of her performance.
She told NBC Sports following her win in the 100m that her biological mother had died the week before trials. That loss played a part, she said on TODAY.
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"(I'm) not making an excuse or looking for any empathy in my case, but, however, being in that position in my life, finding out something like that, something that I would say is probably one of the biggest things that have impacted me ... that definitely was a very heavy topic on me," she said.
"People don’t understand what it’s like to have to … go in front of the world and put on a face and hide my pain. Who am I to tell you how to cope when you’re dealing with the pain or you’re dealing with a struggle that you haven’t experienced before or that you thought you never would have to deal with?"
She added that her biological mother's death was "triggering" and the news sent her into "a state of emotional panic."
Sha'Carri Richardson
Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials on June 19.Patrick Smith / Getty Images
While Richardson can no longer compete in the 100m in Tokyo, there is still a chance she can compete in other races. That, however, is not on her mind, she said.
"Right now, I’m just putting all of my time and energy into dealing with what I need to do, which is heal myself," she said. "So if I’m allowed to receive that blessing, then I’m grateful for it, but if not, right now I’m going to just focus on myself."
Richardson is contrite about what happened and feels for those she may have let down.
"I apologize," she said. "As much as I’m disappointed, I know that when I step on the track, I don’t represent myself. I represent a community that has shown me great support, great love, and I failed you all. So I apologize for the fact that I didn’t know how to control my emotions or deal with my emotions.
"I greatly apologize if I let you guys down, and I did."
I am human
— Sha’Carri Richardson (@itskerrii) July 1, 2021
She wrapped her interview with Savannah with a sentiment similar to one she wrote on Twitter Thursday.
"Don’t judge me because I am human. I’m you, I just happen to run a little faster."
This is running as the top story on DailyMail. Unusual, most reader there don't even know who she is.
It's absurd that marijuana is still considered a banned substance, nothing about it is performance enhancing.
The ban for the Olympics for a non-PED nondrug manifests the incompetence of the entire drug enforcement operation. If it is not discredited now, it soon will be. They have got to fire the pettifog lawyers and get some human beings administering these rules.
Literalism in the law is just another form of pharisaical literalism in religion and there seem to be far too many pettifogs on this site.
GOP Rep Matt Gaetz just tweeted his support of Sha'Carri...
WADA and USATF need to have an emergency meeting and remove marijuana from the banned substances list and let Richardson compete. Marijuana is not a PED. Athletes can get TUEs for depression/anxiety that are many times more powerful that marijuana. Richardson used weed basically as an anti-anxiety/anti-depressant medication after she learned that her biological mother died.
The marijuana ban is an anachronism. Marijuana is legal in many states and countries. USATF and WADA's ban on weed serves no purpose other than to assert some bizarre paternalistic domain over athlete's personal lives.
T&F athletes should demand that Richardson be allowed to run and threaten a boycott if she is banned. This is just the dumbest thing to ever happen in Olympic history.
My cousin Shane died from a marijuana overdose last year. Sha'Carri, be careful. Get yourself to a NA meeting immediately.
I just watched the Today Show interview and my biggest takeaway is that she needs to change the batteries on her smoke alarm.
Can't USATF just let her serve the 30-day USADA suspension, and keep Sha'Carri on the team? Why does a positive test of a non-PED necessarily have to result in a DQ at the Trials?
Wouldn't USATF have jurisdiction/discretion on whether or not they DQ her?
Perhaps that would require USATF having a spine...
Apparently she knows something you don’t.
This message board is unbelievable. I notice most calling her stupid, dumb and I think it's just an opportunity for them to take pleasure in being mean spirited. This has nothing to do with her smoking weed, it has to do with they don't like her and want to punish her; they take some sort of perverse pleasure in that and hide behind an archaic rule to enforce their neo-Nazi beliefs. They hated her before this even became news.They love it. Oh how they love it.
I mean, I'm not at all in support of the mean spirited name calling, but smoking weed in an olympic year so close to the trials was not the smartest decision. And she's clearly smart enough to know it was a banned substance.
Rastus wrote:
This message board is unbelievable. I notice most calling her stupid, dumb and I think it's just an opportunity for them to take pleasure in being mean spirited. This has nothing to do with her smoking weed, it has to do with they don't like her and want to punish her; they take some sort of perverse pleasure in that and hide behind an archaic rule to enforce their neo-Nazi beliefs. They hated her before this even became news.They love it. Oh how they love it.
So you would say what she did was smart?
dirkdirk wrote:
whaletail wrote:
Although I don't disagree with your initial arguments, and not that it's even really germane to Richardson's situation, but isn't marijuana at least legal to consume in most Western nations?
Lol it’s not legal in the United States of America’s eyes. The country she represents lol.
I'm not sure what your point is, or its relevance to my question, but at a glance, it's legal in 19 states, and recreational use isn't actively prosecuted federally.
She made a mistake, and given the timing, will probably suffer disproportionately for it (compared to those testing positive at other times), but let's not pretend she was trying to cheat, or otherwise violate the sanctity of track & field.
Where was her coach and doctor months ago when they could have registered a TUE?! Cover the bases, right?
Stay off the weeeeddduhh.
amdavis262 wrote:
I mean, I'm not at all in support of the mean spirited name calling, but smoking weed in an olympic year so close to the trials was not the smartest decision. And she's clearly smart enough to know it was a banned substance.
So she mis-timed her usage...that doesn't make her stupid or show a lack of intelligence. She made a mistake. A lot less nefarious than those who carefully micro dose with actual PED's.
bigmig19 wrote:
hobbyjog7 wrote:
Big respect for Sha’Carri to completely own up to her mistake.
I hope this initiates USADA/WADA to remove weed from the banned list and I hope Sha’Carri can anchor the 4x100 in Tokyo.
God she is dumb as rock. Dumb dumb dumb. Why would you do this, knowing you have the goods to defeat the world. Just crazy. Its probably about time to take weed off the list too. Maybe hybrid punishment...take her out of 100, keep her in 4 x 1? Hate to see her miss olympics for pure stupidity but needs a lesson.
She does not need a lesson. People who think it makes sense to enforce illogical policy "because those are the rules" need a lesson in logical fallacy. This fallacy, specifically, is ad verecundiam, or the appeal to authority.