Big development: Woman who falsely testified in Jarrion Lawson case is one who popped Houlihan. Houlihan ordered a carne asada b

rojo · 2021-06-15T13:09:29-04:00

Jonathan Gault has written a FANTASTIC column on the complexities of the Shelby Houlihan case. As a track fan, you basically have two option. you can believe. 1) Either Houlihan is lying, and today is a victory for clean sport. 2)She's innocent her case exposes fissures in an anti-doping system in need of overhaul. Jonathan Gault knows which one he believes (#2). In the piece, he goes through both arguments and actually includes two huge pieces of information. One helps Shelby. One hurts her. The case certainly is getting more and more complex the more we learn. 1) The head of the Montreal lab, Christiane Ayotte, who was proven to have provided false testimony in the Jarrion Lawson case, was actually the one who labeled Houlihan's test as a positive. After a subpoena of her lab's records, Ayotte was shown to have provided false testimony in the Lawson case that resulted in him getting cleared. She said it was impossible to determine based on testing if someone had taken a drug through food or not by mistake as everyone who tested positive did so at a similar tiny level as Lawson. She testified that in recent years, positive tests for trenbolone in her lab had always featured low concentrations of the substance, making it impossible to separate intentional cheaters from those who had ingested contaminated meat. The actual records revealed Ayotte’s claim was not accurate. The CAS panel noted some of the levels measured "were large" and that 18 of the 21 positive tests for trenbolone since 2013 contained higher concentrations than Lawson’s .65 ng/mL. Lawson’s agent, Paul Doyle, told LetsRun.com the average concentration was 208 times higher. Doyle was so upset by Ayotte's conduct that she said "Christiane Ayotte should be fired from her job and never be able to testify as an expert witness ever again.” More info here: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9944162 2) Houlihan didn't actually order a pork burrito - she ordered carne asada. So if you think Shelby is innocent, you need to believe the food truck messed up her order. If that seems implausible to you, her lawyer argues what would be even more implausible is for her to be taking nandrolene and get caught as it flushes out of your system super quickly. In his mind, she'd have to be a moron to do that. So who is more likely to have messed up - Shelby or the food truck? [quote][b]Gault wrote:[/b] “She actually ordered a carne asada burrito [the night before the test],” Greene says. “But based on what she ate, it was very, very greasy. The description of the others who actually ate with her was the same. We don’t know what she was given. But we know that the truck had pork offal in two of the eight burritos they were serving…When we hired the investigator, the carne asada burrito that she typically ordered was extremely dry, no grease at all. And the two [types of] burritos [that] had the offal, they both were very, very greasy.” Greene believes, however, that pork offal is the only logical source of the nandrolone. If it did not come from the pork, he says, there are two ways it could have entered her body: an injection or via an oral supplement. The AIU conceded that it was not injected. If it had been, traces would still have remained in her system by the time of her next test on January 23 — which she passed. That leaves only the oral supplement, a method Greene says an athlete would have to be “a moron” to employ because, when ingested that way, the nandrolone leaves the body within 24 hours. “To catch someone taking an oral steroid [and find a concentration] under 15 ng/mL, the window of detection is less than an hour. They couldn’t identify one time it’s ever happened. They kept saying how unlikely it was that she could have eaten boar. It’s more unlikely that they would have caught her this way…You can look at nandrolone cases. All the studies — go read them, they’re all publicly available — it’s all injectables…This was a purely theoretical determination.”[/quote] Please spend ten minutes reading the piece here: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2021/06/shelby-houlihans-suspension-is-a-track-field-tragedy/

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4 years ago 06/21/2021 4:42pm EDT

re: atrrunner

atrrunner wrote:
Are the brojos and gault going to eat crow on this embarrassing L?

Rojo never admits a mistake!

4 years ago 06/21/2021 4:43pm EDT

re: jackamo

jackamo wrote:
This line would get you to her psychology:
"Maybe I’m not angry at Lance because for two decades now I’ve had serious questions about the wisdom and fairness of the “anti-doping” effort, which consists of criminalizing and demonizing athletes for what boils down to using medications without a prescription, as if they are heroin dealers. And I’m confused as to why using cortisone as an anti-inflammatory in a 2,000-mile race is cheating, and I wonder why putting your own blood back into your body is the crime of the century."
For her, doping is an issue of paperwork. Having a regulatory body -- having a gestapo. And not sure heroin dealers care about prescriptions or medicinal use of rec drugs.
She's the Andy Rooney of sports journalism. If she's too lazy or stupid to figure out why the mentioned things are a problem, try asking someone that knows or has some stake in the outcome. Yes, cheaters are demonized, in sport, in life -- not sure what she teaches her kids about ethics, but might be frightening.
If you want to be that reductionist why not just let the cyclists put motors on the bike? They are trying to go 2000 miles after all.

Well said.

8 months ago 09/30/2025 3:25pm EDT

re: rojo

I thought this name sounded familiar. I was reading Knighton's case and Ayotte is present once again

8 months ago 09/30/2025 8:16pm EDT

re: History repeats

Hahaha what a bump. Poor rojo (and wejo + JG too) got a lot of egg on his face, after CAS + even USADA Tygart + even rojo's chosen expert Tucker explained that the nandro was not in the burrito.

But, has he ever admitted that? Or is he still blaming Ayotte?

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