Colleen Quigley pulls out of the Trials

Plot Twist: She spiked Shelby's food/drink/supplements with Nandrolene and is now dealing with the (mental) consequences. She left right around the time of Shelby's positive test and has been pretty open about how she dislikes Houlihan.

This could be the plot for an interesting movie, just saying.

Shelbo was busted last December. Quigley left BTC at the beginning of the year. Something's up. Maybe we'll know after the trials.

Lance Armstrong never tested positive in his career but was outed by his team mates. You might be right. Quigley is about to throw the BTC under the bus.

Nobody else at BTC could have been busted before march or so because they all raced in early spring or later whereas Houlihan was provisionally banned and thus could not race. If anything more besides Houlihan is "up", whatever it is, most has been kept secret for months and will remain secret. Sure, maybe things got too hot for some, and thus Quigley might have left the group. Or some of the others might not quite get back to the 2019-20 levels. But any cause will remain guesswork, I think.

As Quigley suffered from the combination of being both injury prone and attention seeking on social media, no new cause for this behavior needs to be found...

JhonnyRingo wrote:

Lance Armstrong never tested positive in his career but was outed by his team mates. You might be right. Quigley is about to throw the BTC under the bus.

Look how little the attempt to rat out AlSal by people who had left his group yielded in the end. While AlSal did get banned after a very lengthy process, no single athlete recently active with NOP was ever busted for anything. I don't believe Steeplequigs could achieve more than Goucher etc.

Social media is extremely toxic and a sideshow of fake reality.

Jo72 wrote:

I don't believe Steeplequigs could achieve more than Goucher etc.

Nike should have a zero tolerance policy when an athlete tests positive, period. Instead, Nike’s team of lawyers chose to defend Shelby and Alberto and force out two clean athletes, who happen to be Olympians. In both cases, the wrong athletes were forced to leave. Both Steeplequigs and Goucher had a chance to make the Olympic team if they had stayed with Nike.

Note that Nike lawyers knew of Shelbys positive test when they filed Alberto’s appeal in March, 2021.

Then for damage control, a week before SH’s announcement, BTC hires Sonia O’Sullivan, who was cheated out of two world championship titles by Ma’s army. What a joke!

Not sure if it was on here or on a Youtube thread, but someone noticed that Quigley posted a joke about a burrito to her IG stories a few days ago before quickly deleting it. Man, I am paying way too attention to Burritogate! But yeah. If there wasn't/isn't a whistleblower in BTC (and if it wasn't Quigley), there is at least one person here who was brave enough to leave BTC after finding out about the drugs.

Transfer Daily wrote:

Well ... the only reason why we're probably so interested in her is because of her social media. So her social media strategy works.

It was so obvious she would never line up, but I guess back when she left BTC / Nike she hadn't really thought about outright retiring, which probably is the most realistic option for her when it comes to running. But instead, get Lulu first and then pretend to run and then retire?

Speak for yourself. I don't follow her and have never seen on instagram, snapchatter, look at me video of her, ever. I just follow the sport and know that she's a steeplechaser that got beat by the same 2 U.S. athletes over and over and...that she's an opportunist. As for those saying she's hot, to each their own. I don't think she's hot at all. Cute with tons of make up, sure. Hot? Not to me.

I see a sports psych for psych related things (life) and sport (proxy of life).

As I’m working through my own things, I shared that I’m becoming aware of how mental things outside of running can REALLY impact fatigue, hunger, sleep, focus etc aka running.

He mentioned that he’s happy that I’m aware non physical injuries are important, and that he recently had an athlete he’s working with who was in the “top 10 in their sport, at the international level who had decided not to compete at the trial due to non physical injury that ‘they’ (my psych can’t disclose gender, because it considered PHI) are working through”. Verbatim his words.

Makes me wonder if he works with her too??

Idk, just wish the woman luck on her path.

Non physical injuries are real, they affect how you view yourself, your world, the people in it, and therefore everything you do. Whether it’s her or not whom my psych was talking about, I hope CQ and the person who he was talking about DO get better and carry on.

She’s already forever an Olympian. Making a second team is great. Making 1 team is great and an accomplishment itself. Big hug for her.

I'd love to see a Netflix series on this.

Kerrigan/Harding for Generation Y and Millennials.

AlohaState wrote:

Jo72 wrote:

I don't believe Steeplequigs could achieve more than Goucher etc.

Nike should have a zero tolerance policy when an athlete tests positive, period. Instead, Nike’s team of lawyers chose to defend Shelby and Alberto and force out two clean athletes, who happen to be Olympians. In both cases, the wrong athletes were forced to leave. Both Steeplequigs and Goucher had a chance to make the Olympic team if they had stayed with Nike.

Note that Nike lawyers knew of Shelbys positive test when they filed Alberto’s appeal in March, 2021.

Then for damage control, a week before SH’s announcement, BTC hires Sonia O’Sullivan, who was cheated out of two world championship titles by Ma’s army. What a joke!

O'Sullivan is with Pete Julien, not BTC

This is highly inappropriate. A big fûck you to you and your blabber mouth psych. At the very least, he should be sanctioned by whatever board oversees these types of breaches in confidentiality.

I see in her Latest IG she specifically thanks her coach for supporting her mental health... was this a mental health type issue that made her pull out of the trials?

Probably failed a drugs test. Shelby isn’t the only one in the BTC camp who has been eating contaminated burritos.

While Colleen takes a lot of grief on here, and I admit I don't find her particularly likable, I will say some of those instructional or just here's my workout/exercise session videos are pretty dang cool. She's got great positivity, you can see how dedicated she is (now has this changed recently as some are suggesting, I don't know). Usually if I don't 'like' someone overall I then can't stand anything related to them, videos, etc., but I was surprised to find myself really enjoying her youtube stuff.

You did not disappoint with typical LR attitude dropping the F bomb to a random stranger and getting your panties in a bunch. :)

Where’s the breach?

Can you point to where the confidentiality breach happened? Who said it’s her?

It could have been Shannon, Jager, etc, or literally anyone in this sport or another sport. There was no mention of gender or sport. It’s like saying “some at a party last weekend is also dealing with your situation Jonny, you’re not alone”.

It’s not inappropriate since there was no gender or name or literally any PHI (personal health information) revealed. What was revealed was yo anger, bitterness, and ignorance. Have a nice day :)

This is highly inappropriate. A big fûck you to you and your blabber mouth psych. At the very least, he should be sanctioned by whatever board oversees these types of breaches in confidentiality.[/quote]

Replied earlier.

Where is the breach in the original post? Can you please point to it? Where in this did my psych (and/or I) say it was her?

Again, no name, gender, sports or any info was disclosed about anyone else in my psych office between my psych and I. I agree that it would be extremely troubling if that was the case and I myself would have reported it and also withdrawn from having him as my provider.

It was a “Well, other people in sport, even the top deal with things you’re going through. You’re not alone”

Can’t help with the anger and bitterness since those are choices, but if you’re willing to cure your ignorance, here ya go! Knowledge is power.

No breaches in confidentiality.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hipaajournal.com/what-is-considered-protected-health-information-under-hipaa/amp/