Shelby actually confesses in the article to doping.
“Guilt gnaws at her, and she has trouble identifying why.” This itself is an admission of guilt.
”Because I’m serving the consequences for it, I’m also getting the emotions. I feel embarrassed, and I’m feeling ashamed…”
This is a confession from Shelby, and as close as she will likely come to a full confession until she sees that maybe she can make money from a full mea culpa.
Nice selective editing. Here’s the full passage:
She has processed her ban in nonlinear fashion. She grapples with complex feelings. Guilt gnaws at her, and she has trouble identifying why.
“Because I’m serving the consequences for it, I’m also getting the emotions,” Houlihan said. “I feel embarrassed, and I’m feeling ashamed, and all of these different emotions for having to serve a ban, even though I didn’t do anything. So that’s been really hard to navigate and work through.”
IF you had experience identifying people who are not telling the truth, you could see that when she says, as though it has been rehearsed 100 times, “even though I didn’t do anything,” she is engaging in deception. She is feeling shame and guilt because she probably wasn’t raised to lie and lie and lie the way she has been carrying on for quite some time now. It eats away at her and she confesses to it.
Then let’s hear yours. I challenge you to explain:
1) Why did Shelby refuse to wear super shoes if she’s the type of person who would use drugs?
2) Why would Shelby refuse to say she was guilty even if a confession would allow her to compete at the 2024 Olympics?
3) Why should we believe the testimony of Christiane Ayotte?
I’m still waiting for an explanation of these three questions. The fact that nobody can answer them tells me Shelby is innocent.
You are not very bright. 1) Her footwear is not germane to this discussion. She could always change her mind about the footwear issue and she maybe was comfortable in that familiar footwear. If your IQ were even 100 you would know that a doper could be a complicated person.
2) She refused to say she was guilty because she cares way too much what people think, and she thinks she is smarter than she is, so she lies and lies and lies, and it fools idiots like you.
By now it should be clear she's slow-playing this - keeping her name out there with occasional woe-is-me drivel like this, beer miles, and etc... all with only one real purpose - to prevent the public from completely forgetting her and moving on. Hate to say it, but it seems to be working.
She’s still the most talked about runner here. For good reason: deep down everyone knows she’s a victim of a flawed system that’s not designed to protect the innocent.
Tell us you don’t know anything about testing thresholds and the appeals process…..without telling us.
do you know how caught you have to be, to be allowed to be called “caught”? By the AIU or wada? not your national federation. like….super caught. there are thousands of abnormal results which are not allowed to be disclosed or further prosecuted because they don’t meet required parameters. You and the general public have a huge bias because you only hear about the fully processed and verified positive tests, which are then nitpicked for the stupidest outside of the box legal loopholes in a desperate attempt to get their leg out of the bear trap.
IF you had experience identifying people who are not telling the truth, you could see that when she says, as though it has been rehearsed 100 times, “even though I didn’t do anything,” she is engaging in deception. She is feeling shame and guilt because she probably wasn’t raised to lie and lie and lie the way she has been carrying on for quite some time now. It eats away at her and she confesses to it.
YOU make an incorrect assumption about my experience. The guilt she feels is because she was not more careful with what foods and supplements she put in her body. She didn’t cheat.
You are not very bright. 1) Her footwear is not germane to this discussion. She could always change her mind about the footwear issue and she maybe was comfortable in that familiar footwear. If your IQ were even 100 you would know that a doper could be a complicated person.
2) She refused to say she was guilty because she cares way too much what people think, and she thinks she is smarter than she is, so she lies and lies and lies, and it fools idiots like you.
3) Irrelevant.
You are not very bright, as evidenced by the fact that you can’t express disagreement without hurling insults. How pathetic.
Of course the footwear is germane to this discussion. Refusing to wear super shoes to run faster times is reflective of her character. She wanted her records to be legitimate. Someone like that doesn’t cheat.
Then let’s hear yours. I challenge you to explain:
1) Why did Shelby refuse to wear super shoes if she’s the type of person who would use drugs?
2) Why would Shelby refuse to say she was guilty even if a confession would allow her to compete at the 2024 Olympics?
3) Why should we believe the testimony of Christiane Ayotte?
I’m still waiting for an explanation of these three questions. The fact that nobody can answer them tells me Shelby is innocent.
1) we only have her word for this. The word of a drug cheat. Many other people dont wear these shoes. It is another desperate red herring for the gullible.
2) becayde like most other druggies yhey are convinved they would win. Public opinion would crucify her. The deal with nike and others.
3) actually, a good question! She should have been replaced. The answer is that despite being dodgy shelby vouldnt refute her facts, so her personal reliabiloty wasnt germane.
She’s still the most talked about runner here. For good reason: deep down everyone knows she’s a victim of a flawed system that’s not designed to protect the innocent.
Tell us you don’t know anything about testing thresholds and the appeals process…..without telling us.
do you know how caught you have to be, to be allowed to be called “caught”? By the AIU or wada? not your national federation. like….super caught. there are thousands of abnormal results which are not allowed to be disclosed or further prosecuted because they don’t meet required parameters. You and the general public have a huge bias because you only hear about the fully processed and verified positive tests, which are then nitpicked for the stupidest outside of the box legal loopholes in a desperate attempt to get their leg out of the bear trap.
This isn’t even remotely close to true. The AIU will dig in their heels even when the preponderance of evidence shows they are wrong. They are humans and have their own biases. They don’t care about being right. They care about being relevant.
She is innocent and is being roundly savaged by the LRC trolls. It has to be a very strange feeling to be wrongly accused and yet still hold on for vindication after a long ban.
How many articles about this drug cheat do we have to endure? How many are written about other runners serving bans? Why is her story so important? Why are these poor me articles released always before a major championship?
Every convicted doper should get there own article.
Convicted? When was she indicted and tried?
You new here? She was convicted and SENTENCED!!! Bro, she got 4 years and missed 2 Olympic Games, that's the ultimate conviction by the court. Love the part about could have admitted and not missed the Games... should have done that because nothing changed in court of public perception and internally she has guilt like she cheated and is ashamed.
Since Shelby got busted, Karissa Schweizer hasn't come close to the 5000m times she ran with training partner Houlihan. Makes me think she was doing the same thing and then was forced to stop, so she wouldn't get banned.
Then let’s hear yours. I challenge you to explain:
1) Why did Shelby refuse to wear super shoes if she’s the type of person who would use drugs?
2) Why would Shelby refuse to say she was guilty even if a confession would allow her to compete at the 2024 Olympics?
3) Why should we believe the testimony of Christiane Ayotte?
1) Likely because she tried them in training, and found no benefit.
2) Likely for PR reasons, so her most faithful followers can claim she didn't cheat. Possibly also hoping that some will actually fall for that burrito joke.
3) What's not to believe? Even Shelby's lawyer couldn't find anything wrong with her statements in this case. See also Prof. Tucker's comments.
Your turn. Explain - now that we know the roids were neither in the burrito nor in her supplements - where the roids could have come from.
I don’t think any of us will ever know for sure whether she did it or not. Only she knows that.
I am a little surprised by those who say the article was poorly written, although I do think they could’ve interviewed more people who are opposed to Shelby (they mostly just interviewed her friends and supporters). I believe the one person they sought out was also discredited elsewhere (Dr. Ayotte?).
Good article, very in depth. The details of how this impacted her life and the fact that she even rejected the new shoes has convinced me that she's telling the truth no matter how improbable.
Liars lie, and cheaters cheat.
They're all in.
Honest people have trouble understanding how easy cheaters and liars sleep at night.
I do think they could’ve interviewed more people who are opposed to Shelby (they mostly just interviewed her friends and supporters).
It's a shameful puff-piece by an otherwise reputable news source. I would have expected something like this from Sports Illustrated.
It's ridiculous that they didn't interview more people. You don't think the Washington Post couldn't have found someone to explain the test results? No one to explain that the nandrolone clearly came from an artificial source because the chemical isotopes don't match animal sources?
The most likely case IMHO is that it was either in some supplement (i.e., oral delivery) or she was microdosing and got caught.
LetsRun was able to get Ross Tucker to write a pretty clear Q&A about it.
We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. Afterward, we asked him to answer our questions in a Q&A format.
You don't think WaPo could have found Ross or some other expert to explain the results? The nandro was definitely from an artificial source. You can't fake isotope ratios. Draw your own conclusions.
But enough about her - we have an entire meet of great athletes.
Tyler Hamilton and the rest of US Postal only confessed when they were looking at jail time. Since it was a federal fraud case, they faced criminal charges. Up until that point the omerta was strong. Shelby not confessing isn't just about herself. She'd have to give up or at least implicate everyone around her.
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