Erriyon Knighton Cleared by USADA After Provisional Suspension for Trenbolone (Tainted Meat Deemed Likely)

The report said it: doping in Kenya is opportunistic and unsophisticated. In Western countries, it's a different kettle of fish. I can't look at a SML or a Keely Hodgkinson and not be suspicious about unlimited get-out-of-jail-free cards not available to "less important" Kenyans.

Ask someone who's taken Tren, you literally put on muscle doing almost nothing. If a 20 year old athlete needed tren of all things (with all its dangerous side effects) to put on a small amount of muscle that would honestly make no sense and be slightly pathetic.

Jonathan Gault's article on the news is now out. It has quotes from USADA head Travis Tygart as well as Knighton's lawyer Howard Jacobs.

letsrun.com

Erriyon Knighton Cleared to Compete at Olympic Trials after Provisional Suspension Is Lifted

LetsRun.com

Knighton had been provisionally suspended since April 12 after testing positive for the banned substance trenbolone -- the same substance for which Jarrion Lawson was banned (and subsequently cleared). Article includes statem...

Open link

Oxtail?

Seriously?

They tested and had contamination - this arbitrator is not some schlump appointed by Knightons people. What will be instructive is if WADA/AIU appeals. If they don’t, that says a lot. If they do, the plot thickens. There’s a definite rift between Tygart and WADA/AIU, so he did a full CYA maneuver with this arbitrator. I think they’d go scorched earth on him if he let a top athlete off the hook without 100% literal evidence (eg the exact meal tested by USADA). What they got appears to be firmly plausible and now we get to see if WADA/AIU thinks the arbitrator got it wrong.

Have you ever had Oxtail even? Pretty tasty.

I thought the same thing

In fairness... he is 20... Pretty much the exact age when he should be growing muscle

This is what I saw with a guy on Tren. Imo it was mostly water weight.

But why would you take those steroids if they're not used in the livestock industry and offer the same convenient excuse?

Tren filled oxtail from a bakery?

Who runs this bakery? Bob kersee?

Also loled that his mom and girlfriend interviews really closed the case here lmao

" His mom said hes clean and the bakery is at fault..case closed!"

Yep. I’m no expert on what drugs sprinters use, but I wouldn’t think tren, either. Sure it makes you strong quick, without retaining water, but it also f’s you up bad. And ages you fast. If knighton looks dry but muscular and quite a bit older than last year, then I’ll be sus.

Erriyon could easily be clean, but I wonder how many athletes who are using also conveniently eat meat from unusual sources (ox tail from mexico?) every week so they have a convenient excuse if they ever test positive.

No it’s not but it doesn’t matter if it is. They haven’t released the concentration. Because we don’t know the concentration found (that I know of). How is this any different from the Shelby burrito incident? This is suspicious , unfair to all other athletes, and indicative of picking favorites and corruption

You don't get huge from taking tren. You get huge from taking tren, lifting for mass and eating a f*ckload.

I think AIU/Wada need to prosecute this case. Sounds like a whitewash.

I would be interested to learn details on the threshold for a positive test, and how it correlates to potential consumption of the FDA's ceiling ADI. In other words, if someone were exposed to 0.4 mcg/kg daily for a day or two (meatballs for dinner; a hamburger the next day, all from a robustly treated meat cow), would that exposure likely trigger a positive?

"FDA previously established the ADI for total residue of trenbolone as 0.4 µg/kg of body weight per day and the safe concentrations in individual edible tissues of cattle as 80 parts per billion (ppb) for muscle, 240 ppb for liver, 480 ppb for kidney, and 480 ppb for fat."

Some basic info on trenbolone cattle supplements:

fda.gov

Steroid Hormone Implants Used for Growth in Food-Producing Animals

@US_FDA

FDA has approved a number of steroid hormone drugs for use in beef cattle and sheep.

Open link

Depends how it's administered.

lrb.co.uk

Jon Day · Detecting the Duchess: Serious Doper

Jon Day

The Russian state lab in Sochi was the official drug testing facility for the whole games. As head of the lab, Grigory...

Open link

No country will ever be truly clean.

What I’m wondering more is what the hell kind of meat are we eating here in the US?