telecran wrote:
Well very clear from that video that neither he nor his coaches have any sense he has done something wrong
Did he? If a student cheats on a test, he or she may get an F. But they generally don't get kicked out of school and told never to come back. This kid didn't even get caught. He told on himself (at least about the peptide). There seems to be an idea on this board that a runner who never tested positive should be banned from the sport (at the collegiate level) for forever. The implication is that past drug use provides an unfair advantage - even if the user has stopped using.
Shelby Houlihan isn't nearly the runner she was when she tested positive. So how do we know there's a carryover effect? Or how long it lasts? But I hate the implication because a runner improves, that the burden of proof seems to be on him to prove he's clean.
