GDS has left BTC, cites Houlihan explicitly

Let's not forget that JS is in charge. He's being paid a lot of money to coach this club. He needs to put on his big boy running shorts and get ahead of this ASAP! How does one of your premier athletes up and leave the club without other members knowing? He could've easily put something on the team's website explaining, he could have done the same for SH when the sh^t originally hit the fan. Yeah, it's a tough spot to be in, but being fully transparent and forthcoming goes a long way. Now he's painted himself in a corner and the club's reputation is taking on water. They're are other athletes he needs to be careful in handling, if I'm representing Grant, Ahmed, Woody, Karissa, Elise, etc.... I'm feeling a bit nervous about the "Court of Public Opinion". There's a wise saying to understand, "Perception is greater than truth". Don't go silent and think this is going to wash away. JS and his staff need to dig in and be the point or risk losing all creditability like NOP did.

Based on what evidence?

Not sure I'd be taking nutrition facts from someone who didn't know whether nandrolone was something you should put into your body

1 gallon of water per day=128 ounces=3.79 liters, way too much for most people. Could cause hyponatremia and severe symptoms, even death from cerebral edema. What a foolish thing for her to post, no matter what puerile point she is trying to make, especially since she touts herself as a cookbook/nutrition maven. Her actions in this whole recent situation make her appear entitled, arrogant, insensitive and foolish. I feel sorry for athletes on BTC who have integrity.

We are sadly mistaken regarding:

1) LRC having integrity

2) LRC practicing journalism

3) LRC representing fans of the sport.

This is a blog which plays favorites.

Why do athletes continue to sign with any team run by a certain shoe company that only hires coaches willing to push the boundaries of the rules and fair competition?
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Wejo/Rojo,

Can we get a similar "countup clock" on the homepage going until Jerry makes a statement? Seems appropriate.

Drinking a gallon of water is not going to cause death from cerebral edema. In fact, it’d barely move your sodium at all.

It will be interesting to see what the Clean Sport Collective and Kara Goucher have to say about this. Kara lost a ton of credibility IMO with how she has handled the story up to now, and the same with Shalane. It's unreal how militant they can appear against doping when it's "someone else", but when it's someone they know and like "well, it's a little complex, there are personal feelings etc."

I went back and listened to Kara's appearance on the Ali on the Run podcast from July 2021 and she said "it's such an icky situation, I don't know why CAS upheld the ban, I have to believe they know more than the rest of us, but I don't want to focus on this until we see more information, then I did start getting called out on social media... Abramson called me out... I did feel strongly that she shouldn't race in the trials... can't compete and change the outcome for someone else, so I did feel strongly to say something about that, that's now how it works. I was so stressed out.. Clean Sport Collective was getting hammered for not saying anything... I'm getting hammered, but I am a human, and this is the first time that it's been really humanized in a way that felt different from other times... I just felt really confused about the whole thing... I did feel crystal clear on this one thing about competing at the trials. I'm stressing out that my name shouldn't be on it (letter from Clean Sport Collective). but the letter was fair.. and I agreed with it. It sucks either way, whether you think the burrito is real. We are quick to judge... so maybe this will be a learning experience for everyone... I really would like to reserve judgment until i see the CAS decision and I know that makes me a hypocrite potentially for things I said in the past, and I'm evaluating that but I am a human. I want to see all that before I make a decision... but that blew up in our faces..."

I really want to believe that the majority of the sport is clean, but when you see some of the people who appear to be leading the charge against doping become silent or worse support the people that are banned, it's really hard to know what to think.

The hypocrisy from American athletes is astounding and the whole “we’re just human” is an excuse to cover up how their anti-doping movement is built on racism.

Sorry. I should have clarified. It depends on how QUICKLY someone drinks the water. Kidneys in an adult can only excrete 0.8-1 liter per hour. If an adult drank 3.8 liters of water in 1 hour, this would cause hyponatremia and possibly symptoms. Anyway, it is best not to overhydrate like some runners in marathons and ultra marathons have inadvertently done, causing them to be hyponatremic with symptoms at the end of their race.

Agreed. What did Kara say after she read the CAS decision?

I'm not sure yet, still looking. I didn't see anything on twitter, but I think there is a clean sport podcast where she talks about it.

Lots of sympathy a la "I hate this situation". They don't believe the burrito, but still think she may have been innocent, even after reading the CAS decision (listen in after some 30+ minutes):

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Episode #92: Host Roundtable on Shelby Houlihan (and more)

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It was a busy summer for your Clean Sport Collective hosts, but we are excited to be back to you with new content, starting this week with a host roundtable. In this episode, we give you quick updates on the lives of Kara, Sh...

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I'm sure I could look this up, but I'll just crowdsource confirmation...

Regarding the decision on Shelby, wasn't the evidence against the burrito essentially that the combination of the Nandrolone found in her system and the amount of nandrolone that would be found in a wild uncastrated boar would have required her to eat a burrito so large that it made the excuse (nearly) impossible? Then add in the fact that wild uncastrated boar is incredibly rare, and that she didn't even order a pork burrito and the compounding factors make her excuse even more unbelievable.

Not even close to true. Go spend some time in an icu. Your figures and numbers mean very little in the real world.

I had mixed feelings about this podcast. I really appreciated that Kara acknowledged her bias and that’s why she was having a hard time talking about it. At least admit these things instead of wrapping yourself up in a pretzel with excuses not to talk about it.

gds leaving was huge news and members of the running media are barely squeaking about it. Erin strout and David spicy take melly were silent. Barely a peep from fast-women. They give themselves away every time, and they throw Gds to the wolves by not acknowledging this happened.

but at the same time, they have to get over their bias and report on this fairly. They need to talk about how Shelby is still hanging around her old team and help pressure btc to clear the air.

This is all theater.. All it does is diminish the value of track in the public domain. Nobody except the LRC fans who amp up doping positives, rhetoric & feet-stomping from former BTC and NOP athletes care an iota about any of this, and when it makes its way to the mainstream it becomes another embarrassing moment when we all have to answer for it among our non-track-following friends and family.

I argued for days with my wife about this ban and the fact taht shelby received the wrong meal and still ate it. That very weekend of the Houlihan ban we go out to eat breakfast and my Uncle received the wrong meal. Ate it and loved it. Unlikely..but not impossible. Actually if you ever eat at McDonalds its probably more likely that you will not get what you ordered lol