Journalist: Shelby Houlihan Says a Burrito Ended her Olympic Career. I Set Out to Find It

casual obsever wrote:

ucipher wrote:

I think if at least 2 women were on the board or some younger guy with a bipolar friend, things would've gone differently and that's the tragedy.

I highly doubt that. She got the minimum ban possible for her second anti-doping rule violation, although she actually tampered with her medical records three times, not just once. An even more understanding panel couldn't really have reduced the ban any further, could it?

Last, it was CAS, meaning that she chose one of the arbiters - did she choose a European man?

Not sure. She just said she was facing these European men. She may have meant only 2 of them, but maybe all 3. They do have to pick from a list and out of 264, 20 are women so it's not really a diverse list.

Did Woody just nonchalantly say he will be tested more because he's speaking out about this? I find that very interesting.

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

Did Woody just nonchalantly say he will be tested more because he's speaking out about this? I find that very interesting.

He did suggest that speaking out in support of Shelby will make him more of a target for drug testing, but he didn't seem too worried about it.

Watching all of these BTCers defend her leads me to believe they're all in on this doping or Shelby was a lone wolf who completely blindsided them. I lean towards the latter. Another positive test will totally support the former.

They didn't weigh the meet, because it's bull sh!#! The Bowerman group is micro dosing and they got caught. USADA and WADA needs to start testing in the evening and morning. This chick is dirty it appears half the group is also!

ucipher wrote:

Not sure. She just said she was facing these European men. She may have meant only 2 of them, but maybe all 3. They do have to pick from a list and out of 264, 20 are women so it's not really a diverse list.

Agreed with the gender part, but it can't be too difficult to get a North American.

For example, Roberts' CAS panel was: "Hugh Fraser, from Canada, Britain's Michael Beloff QC and Jeffrey Benz of the US".