If Shelby did actually cheat, I genuinely wonder if she would consider participating in the enhanced games. It doesn’t seem like she’s going down that route given her ongoing testing, but you’ve got to wonder. Would there be a financial incentive from investors to get a high-caliber athlete like Shelby to try it out? I mean, at what point do you just say “screw it, I’m in my prime now, I can get paid to openly dope here, I’m done trying to wait this out.” Anyway, seems like she’s trying to play the innocence card the whole way through.
OK... so hypothetically if one is banned from running for 4(?) years. Are you allowed to dope during that time? I ask because if I am going to spend the rest of my life being labeled as a drug cheat, I might as well make good use of my title.
OK... so hypothetically if one is banned from running for 4(?) years. Are you allowed to dope during that time? I ask because if I am going to spend the rest of my life being labeled as a drug cheat, I might as well make good use of my title.
It's been said hundreds of times here. You are still in the testing pool during your ban
Shelby didn't just get caught doping. She got caught doping and then persistently lied about her innocence. She even set up a gofundme scamming the people out of money while she didn't have a job.
She then did like a thousand podcasts and interviews lamenting about how she was a victim. All while following her old team around training with them and making athletes there feel uncomfortable.
There has never been a doper that has been this public during their ban. Never one that has received so much sympathy and leniency.
You say you are not excusing doping. But re-read your post, that is exactly what you are doing. You are calling it necessary to keep up with the "best of the best". What's the big deal right?
Shelby's doping didn't just have her keeping up with the best of the best. It had her winning titles and setting records. She WAS the best of the best. No one in the US could keep up with her. There's a difference between doping to play and doping to WIN. Shelby was doping to win.
Why do you say she "has received so much sympathy and leniency"? Leniency? I can hardly imagine an outcome more severe, both from the CAS and the public, from the one-time presence of a small amount of ingested nandrolone which WADA describes as within the low ng/ml range. Outside of a few personal friends who know her spoke out and vouched for her character, and a handful of posters, it seems the hatred and vitriol among fans of the sport and media pundits is near universal.
Due to recent changes in the WADA Code (2015), she became a victim of presumed intent in a unique process that places the burden on the athletes to establish otherwise, without any guarantees that meeting such a burden would even be possible for innocent athletes who genuinely do not know the source, put on notice one month after the fact, when supplies have been consumed or discarded.
Does that include Houlihan? Thanks to "strict liability" and "presumed intent", we the public have no way of knowing whether this wider net caught a dolphin or a tuna.
And she still is a victim of mass public opinion who believes this unique process is a robust fact-finding tool for anything beyond the one-time "presence" of that low amount from an unknown source.
Looking at the few cases that have succeeded to overcome the presumption (e.g. Jarrion Lawson, and Simon Getzmann), everyone should be able to see the difficulty that all innocent athletes face when burdened with establishing the source of a banned substance several weeks after the fact, when the primary evidence is usually long consumed or discarded, as well as the degree of luck required to demonstrate no intent, not to mention the financial burden of mounting a defense in the first place, when your primary source of income has been cut-off.
She got caught. She was banmed and titles were taken away for the time that she was doping. She has been clean since. There is no penalty for not admitting it. You seem more concerned about the wrong things. She is serving her time.
Nope. She kept all titles and records.
And nope. We don't know whether or not she stopped doping.
She should be jailed for her gofundme grifting.
Clearly the cheating made her rich and famous. At least here most people are opposed to such drug cheats.
How do you know she is rich? It’s more likely she is close to being broke, and she’s more infamous than famous.
There was a podcast with her where she claimed that she made over $200,000 p.a. in her best years. Ok, not rich by letsrun standards, but a very solid income. A clean 15 min runner would barely earn enough money to pay the bills. Doping pays off, especially if one never gets caught, or much later in the career like Jeptoo and Kiprop and Jacobs.
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