Sha’Carri Richardson Tests positive

khcglhc wrote:

Can’t she simply use the Canadian snowboarder story

I was at a party

A lot of people were smoking weed

I inhaled second hand smoke

He got out with that story

Ross Regabliati!

There's still a park in Whistler named after him. Near the creek and the covered footbridge.

return to sender wrote:

Will she have to hand back the bonus money Nike gave her for making the team? This could be the most expensive weed in history.

Especially when you factor in the money she would've made by getting on the podium. Downside is that NBC will feature Felix even more.

Not even close. Remember Reggie bush losing like 6 or 10 million for smoking

Unfortunately, if she failed an in-competition test, wouldn't her Trials win become a DQ?

And since USATF doesn't have the discretion to simply put her on the team, she may have more to overcome than the test itself to get to Tokyo.

shelby houlihan took an anabolic steriod not weed..completely different

I do feel really bad for her but i mean you have to follow the rules that are in place

Also they said prandini would take her place. I didn’t think she had the 100 standard

Weed should not be on the list of banned substances. It’s incredibly stupid that it is because it actually deters performance.

That’s said, it’s even stupider that sha’carri smoked weed because it is on the banned substance list. What a dumbfuk…

highhoppingworm wrote:

Unbeflippinglievable. Smoking weed as the best 100m runner in the world in an Olympic year. Just pathetic, totally pathetic.

Second best. The bodybuilder from Jamaica is still #1.

claymount wrote:

Stevu wrote:

Sharpton and NAACP gotta be at the ready.

It’s another example of white supremacy.

Blacks love to smoke dope.

You know every ghetto black in NFL and NBA smoke dope.

Richardson is full ghetto; is anyone really surprised?

Can we not call Black people ghetto?

Try again, I think.

The criminalization of Cannabis is rooted in blatant racism. Cannabis is not a performance enhancer and for some people is a lifesaving medicine. Why is that alcohol, a highly addictive substance , directly linked to thousands of deaths and indirectly linked to many more deaths, not a banned substance? The fact that elite athletes can enjoy a celebratory beer but be potentially banned for 4 years for testing positive for cannabis is preposterous. Sha'Carri Richardson is one of the best athletes of this generation and she should be allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics!

This is stupid on so many levels.

First let's get the obvious out of the way. THC is a prohibited substance according to WADA and USADA. Sha'Carri from her season debut knew she was looking at competing for an Olympic gold medal. Whenever she decided to have the Ganja she knew she was risking her shot at Olympic glory. This was very irresponsible on her part.

Second, banning athletes for recreational drug, especially something as benign as Marijuana is just dumb. There is no reason test and enforce such a besides enforcing an arbitrary and IMO outdated moral standard on to athletes. This is not to defend Sha'Carri, the rules are quite clear, but WADA is plainly just being oppressive on athletes by banning Marijuana.

The exact rationale is, according to

https://www.usada.org/athletes/substances/marijuana-faq/

1. "Athletes who smoke cannabis or Spice in-competition potentially endanger themselves and others because of increased risk taking, slower reaction times and poor executive function or decision making.”

Pure bullsh*t

2. "Based on current animal and human studies as well as on interviews with athletes and information from the field, cannabis can be performance enhancing for some athletes and sports disciplines.”

Slower reaction times and poor decision making is performance enhancing?

The effect of THC varies person to person. Some people claim that it increases their focus for example. But the potential positive effects are limited such psychoactive symptoms. If we're going to ban it for simply being psychoactive than caffeine should be banned as well...

3. “Use of illicit drugs that are harmful to health and that may have performance-enhancing properties is not consistent with the athlete as a role model for young people around the world”.

This simply reflects an outdated set of values that are not based in reality. Marijuana is about as harmless as any drug can be. It is literally impossible to consume enough to kill you. Even caffeine isn't so ridiculously harmless.

Unfortunately I doubt WADA will change there stance on Marijuana since many countries, even the US Federal government officially, still consider it a dangerous substance despite all evidence to the contrary.

I do believe that the USOC may be able to find some way for Sha'Carri to compete in Tokyo. As far as I can tell from the rule book the shortest ban she can get is 1 month if she can prove the substance was consumer out of competition and agrees to a rehab program, but I admit to no being an expert on how this works.

faster than 14.10 wrote:

Also they said prandini would take her place. I didn’t think she had the 100 standard

Prandini didn't have the standard before the trials but got it in the 100m final.

faster than 14.10 wrote:

Also they said prandini would take her place. I didn’t think she had the 100 standard

Prandini had a wind legal 11.11 at the Trials. The standard is 11.15.

In terms of track and field and integrity of the sport, the Houlihan situation and this one have almost nothing in common.

Houlihan tested positive for an anabolic steroid, and made up a crazy and laughable story to try to avoid the ban, all while being part of a group that has acted holier than thou when it comes to doping. (And if it was actually just a tainted supplement, the fact is she still tested positive for an anabolic steroid).

Richardson just made a really, really dumb mistake and will have to pay a very steep price for it.

I don’t see how USATF can let her run, but IMO the rule should be changed going forward.

I understand that you have to follow the drug rules as an Olympic athlete, but why the hell is weed still a banned substance?

whaletail wrote:

Unfortunately, if she failed an in-competition test, wouldn't her Trials win become a DQ?

And since USATF doesn't have the discretion to simply put her on the team, she may have more to overcome than the test itself to get to Tokyo.

yes, but that doesn't matter. Sha'Carri already had the Olympic standard before the Trials and every country has the right under IOC / World Athletics rules to send any three athletes with the standard they please.

USATF rules are that we only take top 3 from the Trials, but USATF can always make an exception to their own rules. Athletics Kenya has done this before (as do many countries without a trials system). USATF does indeed have the "discretion" to put Sha'Carri on the team, at least from an international rules perspective, because WADA, IOC, World Athletics, etc are not responsible at all for USATF's internal selection procedures.

could marijuana be a masking agent?

Kenyans FTW wrote:

Marijuana is about as harmless as any drug can be. It is literally impossible to consume enough to kill you..

There are other measures of the harmfulness of a drug beyond whether you die from it. I doubt that you could find a legitimate medical expert that would agree that marijuana is as harmless as any drug could be.

Smoking weed? Minor stuff, but how dumb can one be? She's on the doorstep of greatness and can't say no to some marijuana? A ban for this excessive but this rule has existed for some time.

She's getting what she deserves.

habs wrote:

USATF rules are that we only take top 3 from the Trials, but USATF can always make an exception to their own rules. Athletics Kenya has done this before (as do many countries without a trials system). USATF does indeed have the "discretion" to put Sha'Carri on the team, at least from an international rules perspective, because WADA, IOC, World Athletics, etc are not responsible at all for USATF's internal selection procedures.

I agree if she got a one month ban, nothing from WADA, IOC, or World Athletics would prevent her from competing at the Olympics. But I don't think USATF has the discretion to just ignore their own rules. If her Trials 100 performance was vacated, then she didn't qualify for the USA Olympic team.