Travis Tygart doesn't think Shelby Houlihan is a doper

Sounds like USADA is in buisness of protecting american dopers. perhaps a ban of all athletes like for russia is needed

Big worry for American sports that a man in that position seems more preoccupied than defending obvious dopers because they are American than actually catching them..

Absolutely it is.

The only people USADA bans are people who are caught by WADA or it is too obvious.

State sponsored doping of the highest order.

If Tygart's got any real facts to back up his statement about the validity of the testing around Houlihan then present it. If not...shut up!

From that article:

Houlihan figures she’d been tested two to three times a month since 2018.

That Kevin Beck article is wild.

Didn't they have the time to read the Ross Tucker article for LRC to have some proper background information? This is just poor journalism.

Ban Jerry and all the leaders of the BTC. Zero tolerance. Travis should step down. He has no interest in clean sport.

Cranny is by far the more obvious doper of the two.

Absolutely. As an American in favor of clean sport, it really pisses me off.

Also, so nice of miss cheater cheater pumpkin eater Emma Coburn to like this post. I guess her disdain for cheaters only applies when the cheaters are black.

Good tweet stream but I don't think it is racism, I think it is a combination of her beauty and the Nike PR machine behind the scenes.

1500 m / 5000 m improvement in seconds at BTC for those three athletes:
Schweizer: 7 / 26
Cranny: 7 / 51
Houlihan: 15 / 86

Am I crazy or in the podcast didn’t she say it was Schweizer who was with her at the time she received the email about the positive test?

But in the article it’s cranny?

Weird, I was thinking the same thing. I believe the details of the Schweizer story was from the transcript of her appeal? Might be worth digging up.

Her beauty?

I don’t think it’s primarily racism, it’s the hyper-insularity of the US distance running industry protecting their “own.” As a side effect, most US distance runners are white so the spirited defence looks like a defence of white women specifically, but it’s really just U.S. partisanship.

Secondarily, yes, white women are more likely to be seen as innocent, fragile and “beautiful” than other women but that’s not the main reason they’re defending her. It is a narrative that also bolsters their claims to her victimhood which wouldn’t be as easily activated for other women (if she were black people would be talking about how she looks like a man and is therefore an obvious doper), but the main reason is more stuff like “Jerry is a good guy he wouldn’t cheat,” “I grew up watching her and I know she’s innocent,” “doping is what bad evil countries like Russia and China do and we’re the good guys,” etc.

Racism plays a role. not all white athletes would get thus treatment from the media but you have to be white to get this treatment.

I would like to point out that long before there was doping, runners were improving.

Just take a brief look at a few of the Los Angeles Trwack Club runners under Igloi:

Jim Beatty re-wrote the American record books from 1500-5000m
Bob Schul became a WR holder and Olympic champion
John Garrison went from 4:10 to 3:58 in his first race after coming to the LATC
Ron Larrieu set an American record for 6 miles and won several nat'l championships

And there were others.