Erriyon Knighton Faces Possible 4 yr ban

I guess we walk down different kinds of streets. In these posts you've asserted that not only Thompson but Lyles looks like an obvious steroid abuser, which is absurd. Of course he's in great shape, but his build would make him a *target* on any football field in America. Again, this doesn't mean he, or Thompson, or any of them, are or aren't doping. But looks are far from a dead give away.

Question: For every other post referencing "obvious dopers" who haven't been caught, is there any evidence for any of this or are we just slinging around wild accusations as soon as someone is really good?

We've all been burned before by being disappointed when someone we believed in gets popped, but when we get so jaded that we accuse half the athletes of cheating, we kind of ruin it for ourselves IMO. Let's have strict rules and follow them, but I have to say if I really thought that everyone was cheating like so many people on here seem to think, I probably would not watch track, rather than continue to follow it while being forever unhappy about possible dopers.

A very conservative dose of tren is just like a moderate-to-aggressive dose of another AAS. It's essentially 5x as anabolic and androgenic as testosterone, so you could match a 500mg/week test cycle with a 100mg/week tren cycle, or scale up or down accordingly (down for athletes). Because the laws of physics apply, you can only pack on a lot mass during a tren cycle if you eat at a significant caloric excess. Yes, you'll get intracellular water weight, but as far as increased muscle mass -- that's still limited by how much you eat. If you don't eat a lot, you won't gain much weight.

Bodybuilding doses are so far and away from what pro athletes take that the crazy mental effects aren't going to be terribly applicable to sprinters or other athletes.

Tren still isn't the smartest choice, but it's not quite as crazy an option as this post suggests.

EDIT: that being said, everyone should shut up about doping. Fans of other sports aren't as deranged about this stuff as track fans. Just enjoy the sport and stop demanding drama.

Should have been banned for life long time ago!

Wonder what they're waiting for yet evidence is all over.

Indeed some animals are superior than others...

If Knighton did take such a drug, it's because he was looking at his balloon animal looking competitors and thinking this is ridiculous. He's also probably vain and wants to look like the blow-up inflatable guys with no body fat. I guess Knighton just doesn't have the inside access to protection and a more sophisticated program. I assume it's just because so much money has been invested in Noah Lyles as the face of the sport, in getting regular people to learn his name, and they want to get their moneys worth.

Or maybe not and that's just a total crackpot theory.

I seem to remember when Knighton hit the scene that he was a 4 or 5 star football recruit (WR). If he gets a 4 year ban and cannot compete in the Olympics until 2032, is there anything keeping him from trying his hand at college football? I am not suggesting he should make that attempt, just that 8 years until an Olympic possibility, many things might seem like alternative path.

Tren is not the drug I would expect him to be popped for, especially looking at his physique. I find his argument slightly more credible than Shelby's but I also know nothing about elite level doping methods.

I think its more that we live in very different countries......

I don’t know. Maybe.

It’s very relevant. No one has any idea how Knightons body would react to trenbolone at any dose. It’s not the kind of thing that can be easily studied, as the chemical is so dangerous. If a professional athlete wants to take steroids, I’m saying there are far better, safer, proven, and logical options. I mean, people have been doing this for decades. Networks of doctors, coaches, and chemists are waiting out there for people like Knighton to use. And yet out of all these options, we’re to believe he picks a steroid with the kind of unpredictable side effects that I have suggested here? That hasn’t really been studied?

Like I said, I think food contamination is possible. I reserve the right to be wrong, but I think the tests have reached a level of sensitivity that means contamination should be considered in at least some cases.

Something similar happened to Jarrion Lawson. He too was able to make the case that his Trenbolone positive resulted from meat contamination.

nbcsports.com

Jarrion Lawson, Olympic long jumper, cleared of doping in tainted beef case

https://www.nbcsports.com/author/olympictalk

Jarrion Lawson was exonerated of a doping offense, successfully arguing that a failed drug test was due to contaminated beef.

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"knighton's physique looks slim and "clean" compared to the others". He actually looked like he gained significant weight and muscle during the season opener earlier this year.