think about it, 3.5 years have passed wrote:
Nandrolone in a person’s body does not mean they were using it as a performance enhancing substance.
No one has proved that the nandrolone was there in her body for the sake of enhancing performance. So some arbitrary, United States hating committee decides they have jurisdiction to ban an American athlete. That doesn’t mean she cheated. It just means they made a choice to ban her because someone else would “gain from it.”
Setting aside the actual facts of this case, you're proposing a standard that would effectively make doping legal. We don't have a blood test for intent. We have blood tests for specific, prohibited substances, and when you test positive, the burden is on you to prove it was inadvertent. No rational person can think that she carried that burden, and nobody has proposed a workable anti-doping system that doesn't allocate the burden in that manner.
In any event, the problem with the "it just doesn't make sense that she'd dope this way" argument is that doping is still by far the most plausible explanation for the positive test. There's no dispute that she was glowing, and there has to be a reason.
If this were a case with a lost B-sample, where the argument was that the test was faulty, then this reasoning might make sense. It would be an argument that those blood values are so implausible that they must be in error.
That's not the argument, though. The argument is that those blood values are actually right, but they make so little sense that we should assume a truly insane series of events happened to produce those values, with no evidence to support the theory. The more likely explanation, of course, is that she doped and did a bad job at it.
I also find unconvincing the basic premise of the argument that it makes no sense to have these blood values because that's not a sensible method of doping. That assumes that athletes who dope are totally educated and supported by medical professionals. That doesn't seem to be the case. Track and field doping, at least in this country, has never been professionalized like it was in the heyday of US Postal. There are probably dirty athletes in otherwise clean groups, just figuring it out on their own.