It seems unlikely that he only started doping last fall. But his "honesty" seems to have done the job as intended and "refreshed" people enough into thinking he is being totally honest, when I would bet hes been doping for years.
The weirdest thing about this is that it shows that, apparently, triathletes are also pretty in the know about track. It's weird because I guarantee the inverse is not true. Maybe a little more than it had been while Gwen Jorgenson was over on our side of things for a while, but apart from her I don't know crap about elite triathlon and I bet that's true of most of us runners.
But he did make 3xcuses. They were more realistic and credible than those he cited but they were still excuses.
I also find apologies laughable. If you were really sorry you would come clean before being forced to by a failed test. A person truly sorry for cheating comes out and admits to it without a positive test.
I equated to people who are sorry they cheated on their spouse after their spouses already caught them. You're not sorry you did it, you're sorry you got caught.
How often do you confess to something before you are found out? You are going to lie when you say "all the time".
Something significant I did in a moment of weakness, like injecting a banned substance or infidelity, I'd confess to because as a good person that made a one time mistake I would own my mistake.
The difference is these dopers aren't sorry or making one time mistakes in a moment of weakness like they claim. They spend the time and effort to source the drugs and come up with doping regiments designed to get away with it. Then AFTRR they get caught they cry sorry.
I tell my kid all the time don't be sorry, just dont do it
But, why wouldn't that also apply to your purported "moment of weakness" where one injects a banned substance or engages in infidelity? Do you think a person just finds themselves in that spot without a hundred little steps toward it?
Yes, what Shelby Houlihan has done is worse, but he's still bad.
+1
Houlihan's burrito story is the worst of them all, as she is still denying everything, then Robertson's (because he backed off of the lie), then Chartier, who - like Robertson - pretends he just started using and always competed clean - as if!
But, why wouldn't that also apply to your purported "moment of weakness" where one injects a banned substance or engages in infidelity? Do you think a person just finds themselves in that spot without a hundred little steps toward it?
yup. researching, purchasing and administering EPO is a bloody long moment. it’s probably a lot closer to a well considered decision.
Did Colin Chartier have a biological pass port? Since when? What was his hematocrit level around the time of PTO US? What was his hematocrit level on Feb 10?
I guess you can respect someone owning up to their mistake and not wanting pity, but throwing shade at others doesn’t really make him seem any more honorable in my opinion; comes off a little pious for someone who also cheated.
I guess you can respect someone owning up to their mistake and not wanting pity, but throwing shade at others doesn’t really make him seem any more honorable in my opinion; comes off a little pious for someone who also cheated.
Exactly what I was trying to say. It almost makes him seems more crooked than the ones he pointed his fingers at because he's trying to deflect and his explanation isn't very logical either.
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