Shelby Houlihan Takes The Money And Runs: Disable Donationas On Her GoFundMe

It's sad we'll never get answers on this case. And Shelby will still be moping around whining about how she has "character". She honestly appears to me as someone who has never had to face consequences for her actions. I feel sad for Jenny Simpson, sad for everyone who she stole from. The women who missed US teams because of her. At least Heather MacLean was not robbed to go to Tokyo. What a story that was.

Imagine not realizing how sensitive the endocrine system actually is to think her nandrolone levels were "small."

Also it doesn't matter how talented you are; no woman is running in the mid 14's naturally. It's okay to say someone is super talented *and* takes drugs because everyone at the elite level does.

Stigmatizing PED's in elite sports is the ultimate cope western distance running fans possess. Just accept that everyone microdoses and move on.

I bet you think The Rock doesn't take steroids lmao

I guess I don't have your imagination. WADA calls that small amount the "low ng/mL range (less than 10 ng/mL)".

Ingesting that small amount, most of it never got in her endocrine system in the first place, thanks to something called "first pass".

She also didn't run mid 14s in Dec. 2020. Did the Rock ever run mid 14s?

you're trolling but I'm not going to let you get away with this. 14:23 is mid 14's--some would say low 14's and she ran that earlier in the year. The hypothesis has always been that she's been microdosing/doping since at least 2018. She just got her glow times wrong and was crossed up in 12/20--a rare occurrence of the system doing it's job.

Shelby is a sad excuse for a liar and a coward caught. Beg for money without getting a job, make your former teammates uncomfortable by still showing up to practices and lift sessions, splurge money for altitude trips, lie and lie and lie. exploit a 16 year old to share your story with the world, continue doing poor-me articles. just endless.

POTD ^^^^^^

Who cares? You

Dishonest Mike

I mean defenseless? she literally had $16k to defend herself...

Maybe he should have. Dude couldn’t hit a curveball

She refuses to accept that she did wrong and insists she is the victim of a world that is out to get her. She’s not even past step 1: acceptance of fault. It takes a seriously narcissistic scumbag to continue to blame the punishment for her own actions on “the system” & try to extract sympathy and even more cynically, $$ from others by committing to living the lie.

Did she do anything wrong? The basis for the ban is a set of presumptions that no one had to establish or prove. That's in the CAS report.

According to USADA Chief Tygart, the system that convicted her is broken. For these kinds of cases of unexplained presence consistent with unknowing ingestion, the system is very one-sided against the athlete.

We already have answers, just not a confession.

Get away with what? I don't ever troll, but it's hard to criticize deep-rooted beliefs without being demonized as a heretic.

I understand there is a working hypothesis among fans with no particularly special knowledge, propped up by a set of presumptions, but any suggestion she doped before Dec. 2020, or more than once, is pure speculation.

Even then, it seems like a shaky hypothesis at best as oral ingestion of low doses of nandrolone is not particularly known to have any endurance performance benefit. See for example 2006 study "Effect of multiple oral doses of androgenic anabolic steroids on endurance performance and serum indices of physical stress in healthy male subjects" where they found "no effect of multiple oral doses of AAS (nandrolone and testosterone) on endurance performance or bioserum recovery markers was found".

The likely reason for that is the kidneys do a pretty good job of filtering out ingested steroids before it ever gets in your system. This is called "first pass".

It would be better to have such a study on women, but if microdosing nandrolone could work so well for so long, Houlihan's performances of 2018 and 2020 wouldn't stand out, as women worldwide would have been running these times long before Houlihan in 2018, as nandrolone has been available and used by athletes as far back as the 1960s, including by direct injection and macro-dosing.

Yes, we do know that she doped intentionally with synthetic nandrolone. But there is so much we don't know, including the answers to:

1) When did she start doping?

2) What else did she use?

3) Who orchestrated her doping program?

4) Who else was (and still is?) on that program?

5) Why did she finally get caught?

6) Why did USADA fail do catch her?

she should be thankful that she will be able to have a normal life after this. lot different for men. Can you imagine Salazar or Armstrong going on a van life bucket list trip and posting photos of all his dreams on instagram like she has been doing? the outrage@@@

This is a really good point actually, an example of the bias she got as a white woman. She had a presumption of innocence about there that lasted for much longer than it ever should have.

I was listening to a Rich Roll podcast on youtube with Gwen Jorgensen, cause I thought it was new at first, and Gwen talks about having a dinner with the Bowerman team at altitude training or whatever before she found out her Haglund's deformity was really serious. A trainer there was like, can you hop on each side, and she could hop with her left foot but not her right. And she said, this girl Shelby Houlihan burst out laughing because how can you run at all if you can't hop because running is just that. And I think Gwen's point was to say how bad her foot had gotten without her even knowing it, but I think her remembering Shelby by name bursting out in laughter shows—to me—that Shelby was full of hubris in her prime, when she was uninjured and the fastest on the team.

Even though the situation is absurd—you can run but not even hop a little, that is not the reaction I would want from a teammate. I mean, some empathy, please.

So this has nothing to do with Shelby being guilty or not. I'm just not inclined to feeling sorry for her.

Super weird you stalk Shelby’s account waiting to post something like this

The account was down months ago and had already been pointed out. Trying to frame this as “weird” to point this out is just deflecting. It’s not invading her privacy.