It's for a topical acne medication that she had a prescription for. She could've gotten a TUE.
Spironolactone is a powerful diuretic and as far as I know I don’t trust her version and will just assume it was used to cheat and that she is lucky to get 4 months.
I assume she appealed(?). But it does bug me a little bit that she posts "honest" videos about other topics (mental health, eating disorder, injuries) but failed to just post an honest video shortly after failing the test.
She posted a video about how she was having a really hard time with some things but she couldn't discuss it. It was obviously this.
I personally don't care about this. But I do find it ironic that Spencer posted a big video about grey area stuff and TUEs a few weeks before this test. Talk about throwing stones from a glass house!
I doubt this has any real performance benefits. And it's pretty obvious from the times she ran before this (Gate River Run) that she wasn't doping.
Though this does make me wonder about whether other semi-elite running YouTubers get tested. On the one hand I don't see the point in doping if you're chasing a sub 3 marathon. On the other hand, if they feel pressure to outdo themselves and run faster to grow their channel, I can see the allure of doping.
I would honestly love to watch one of these jokers do a YouTube series where they transparently run cycles of all kinds of stuff. Document it and we could see how much some of these substances really help an average runner. Sure it would be bad for the kids watching, but you're telling me you wouldn't love watching Seth Demoor learn to shoot testosterone into his ass? Kofuzi's selfie-stick arm getting jacked as f*** from running some SARMS? I'm in. I'd donate to a Patreon to make it happen.
She posted a video about how she was having a really hard time with some things but she couldn't discuss it. It was obviously this.
I personally don't care about this. But I do find it ironic that Spencer posted a big video about grey area stuff and TUEs a few weeks before this test. Talk about throwing stones from a glass house!
I doubt this has any real performance benefits. And it's pretty obvious from the times she ran before this (Gate River Run) that she wasn't doping.
Though this does make me wonder about whether other semi-elite running YouTubers get tested. On the one hand I don't see the point in doping if you're chasing a sub 3 marathon. On the other hand, if they feel pressure to outdo themselves and run faster to grow their channel, I can see the allure of doping.
I would honestly love to watch one of these jokers do a YouTube series where they transparently run cycles of all kinds of stuff. Document it and we could see how much some of these substances really help an average runner. Sure it would be bad for the kids watching, but you're telling me you wouldn't love watching Seth Demoor learn to shoot testosterone into his ass? Kofuzi's selfie-stick arm getting jacked as f*** from running some SARMS? I'm in. I'd donate to a Patreon to make it happen.
Not YouTube, but there was an Outside Magazine article that did this. Looking for it now... it was 20 years ago:
Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an ama...
I told y'all the Brits are dirty. Why are there only two threads calling out the dirty Brits? There should be 20! We should never have bailed the limeys out at Trafalger!
Funny that she got 4 months and Gwendolyn Berry got 16 for the EXACT same use of the drug in question.
Also, this "masking agent" nonsense is making people believe the drug does something magical to hide PED use; it doesn't, it's a diuretic that makes you pee. Drinking water is a masking agent as well.
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I had painful cystic acne ages 13 to 60. Tried everything including Accutane but nothing worked until I stopped eating plants and kicked my sugar/chocolate addiction.
Meat is magic, plants are poison when it comes to these chronic conditions.
I do respect that she accepted without complaining or crying about it being "unfair", or lying. Although I don't like that this happened and it puts at least some suspicion of her in my mind, I have a much higher opinion of her and how she handled this than of Shelby Houlihan who I think is....I won't even type it but my opinion of her as an athlete can't get any lower we'll just say that.
It's for a topical acne medication that she had a prescription for. She could've gotten a TUE.
Spironolactone is a powerful diuretic and as far as I know I don’t trust her version and will just assume it was used to cheat and that she is lucky to get 4 months.
lol no it isn't a powerful diuretic. I'm surprised it's on the list. But for whatever bizarre reason it is, and she should have known better.
Spironolactone is a powerful diuretic and as far as I know I don’t trust her version and will just assume it was used to cheat and that she is lucky to get 4 months.
lol no it isn't a powerful diuretic. I'm surprised it's on the list. But for whatever bizarre reason it is, and she should have known better.
Agreed, she should have known better. I do doubt she was really doping now because like other posters have said, her times have just not been there...to me that's a signal she's been clean and she is not masking anything with the spironolactone that they found.
Pharmacist here. A pro athlete shouldn’t be using spironolactone cream for acne when there are a TON of FDA-approved alternatives. This drug isn’t even made this way off the shelf, you have to get a custom prescription and someone has to make it manually. Makes no sense to use this over all the other options out there.
Pharmacist here. A pro athlete shouldn’t be using spironolactone cream for acne when there are a TON of FDA-approved alternatives. This drug isn’t even made this way off the shelf, you have to get a custom prescription and someone has to make it manually. Makes no sense to use this over all the other options out there.
doctors push all sorts of weird stuff without having the patients best interest at heart.
i still think she should have got 12 months but I believe her. it's not like she's been making teams or running PR's anyway.
