I'll never get over the mindf**k that was Shelby Houlihan's doping ban.
The hypocrisy from white liberal running media was so galling and to this day it's galling. I've never seen a drug cheat treated like an underdog who got beaten down by the establishment. Where did our heads go.
Sending your regular reminder that there is no evidence to suggest Shelby isn't guilty as charged and whiteness and Americanness and a nice smile doesn't count as evidence for her innocence. Please remember this when she does come back and commentators act like her ban never happened or her ban was wrong or she is a down on her luck comeback kid.
People who raged for lifetime bans for dopers called Shelby's ban a "tragedy". Her return to racing will inevitably knock other Americans off of teams and opportunities and medals. Once a doper always a doper, and we will never be able to say for sure that her performances were real.
So the real tragedy will be the doper, Shelby Houlihan getting another opportunity to infest the sport again.