Jonathan Gault has written an in-depth feature on what Shelby Houlihan's prospects are moving forward. He quotes 3 shoe execs as to whether there is a market for her, has quotes from her new agent Paul Doyle and also a quote from Jerry Schumacher as to whether or not he'd want to coach her.
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Now you absolutely prove your stupidity. He was never charged with murder and all charges against him were dropped. This is a Houlihan thread but ****wits like you think you are making a point with this sort of moronic garbage that has nothing to do with the thread subject.
So now you claim that people are only guilty of things if they are charged and found guilty? Glad to hear it. That means that every athlete is clean other than those who have been found guilty. And one the flip side, you didn't agree with the verdict of Rittenhouse. So that also means we can disagree with verdicts.
Yes we know about Trump, he recently was convicted of 34 Felonies and he was sentenced to no Time in jail, he lucked out and got one of the George Soros Judges who is lenient on crime, but he was sentenced and People got to accept that, Just remember that, I bet the next time you get convicted of Multiple Felonies you will hope that you also get a lenient judge, who does not give you any Jail time. Trump was treated like anyone else who did the same thing and got that judge.
Back to Shelby Houlihan, She did the crime and She did the Time, Now She is free, so let her be, Hopefully she sets many new Personal Best's, On another note it would be so cool if she ran The Houston Half Marathon and ran a great time. Wevknow she is very good at 1500, 3000 and 5000, so it would be great if she is good at an even wider range of distances than we thought, and have everyone talking can she break 30n for 10000, she probably wont run the Half mARATHON sUNDAY, BUT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING.
Jonathan Gault has written an in-depth feature on what Shelby Houlihan's prospects are moving forward. He quotes 3 shoe execs as to whether there is a market for her, has quotes from her new agent Paul Doyle and also a quote from Jerry Schumacher as to whether or not he'd want to coach her.
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I'm a big rehabilitation over retribution guy, and if Shelby has learned her lesson and competes cleanly, I'm excited to see what she does, if for no other reason than I'm interested in how someone who's been banned for 4 years bounces back. What kinda precedence is there for this? I know Gatlin came back, and Coleman came back from an 18 month suspension, but sprinting is kinda a different sport.
Personally I assume everything she did before her ban was doped/doesn't count now, but from now on, as long as she's passing the tests that everyone else is passing, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that I give everyone else (ie Addy Wiley). I don't expect her competitors to offer her any respect, and I'm not really sure she deserves any, but I will definitely at least tune in to the live splits of her races, and I will happily tune into the sh*tstorm that I know will be on here if she wins any races. 2025 is shaping up to be an incredibly entertaining year of track and field.
The Addy Wiley compare is a good one. That said, I am stuck on the fact Shelby never admitted her cheating and played the victim so well (not that Addy admitted anything but since she was a teenager when much of that happened and was the victim of an adult who clearly took advantage of her, I tend to be much more forgiving). I hope I can get to where you are, it’s certainly a more positive way to approach things.
Some of you have no clue what slavery was like, and to talk about Shelby as if she were just released from a plantation shows how utterly clueless and insensitive you are. Shelby has been free her entire life.
she is half native american. nice try SJW
Wow. What a dumb post. At least you have actively demonstrated that you simply don't understand the issue, if you think that the identify of the person being discussed matters here.
Learn something: To say someone has been "emancipated" from something as trivial as a sports ban makes the speaker sound like an ignorant imbecile. It doesn't matter who that person is, whether they are "half native" or another race.
I would say the same if you said a black, white or purple person was "emancipated" from a disciplinary process that is completely unrelated to slavery or involuntary servitude.
I'm not remotely a "SJW", by the way. Centrist if not conservative. Though it seems that having taken a history class makes a person a "liberal elite" to some of you.🤣
Hern name is Shelby Houlihan. Shelby Houlihan is hereby cleared to compete. This is the truth. Your statement is false. Her name is completely cleared.
Sorry! It doesn't work that way. Sometimes in life perception is greater than truth.
"I still have no real answers for what happened 4 years ago. Was it the meat in a burrito? Possibly. Could it have been something else entirely? Absolutely."
Good that she now confirms the 'certain' burrito explanation she used, in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and also her Gofundme, has now been downgraded in her own mind and writings to a "possibly."
"Something else entirely" - pills given to me by my coach/therapist?
The calendar just turned to Monday, January 13th, 2025.
Shelby Houlihan is now a free woman.
Whether justice was served, or an injustice committed, the ankle shackles are now off.
Some of you have no clue what slavery was like, and to talk about Shelby as if she were just released from a plantation shows how utterly clueless and insensitive you are. Shelby has been free her entire life.
Please share with us your "slavery" experience, and what it was like.
Hern name is Shelby Houlihan. Shelby Houlihan is hereby cleared to compete. This is the truth. Your statement is false. Her name is completely cleared.
Sorry! It doesn't work that way. Sometimes in life perception is greater than truth.
Indeed.
If you are convicted of a crime, serve jail time, and are then released, NO you have not "cleared your name."
You are still a convicted criminal, whether killer, thief, or fraud.
Clearing your name would be proving your innocence and having the charges overturned.
As for Shelby, nothing has been overturned. She is still a convicted doper.
She says she served consequences for actions she "never chose to make".
According to her, the one action that resulted in all these consequences was eating a burrito.
If she never chose to eat that burrito, why did she eat it?
The simple answer is someone else must have forced her to eat that burrito against her will!
Who forced her to eat that burrito, how did they force her to eat that burrito, and why did they force her to eat that burrito???
But maybe it wasn't just eating the meat in that burrito. It "absolutely" could have been "something else entirely" that forced her to eat that burrito.
It might have been more than one individual, potentially a conspiracy.
Who else was there when she was forced to eat that burrito? Who had the most to gain from this?
Also: "I still have no real answers for what happened 4 years ago. Was it the meat in a burrito? Possibly. Could it have been something else entirely? Absolutely."
and
"I had to serve consequences for actions that I never chose to make."
It really seems that she is leaning away from the burrito and toward blaming "actions" that she did not "make."
What could that be? The old spiked supplements excuse? Because obviously she had those all tested and found NOTHING.
Some of you have no clue what slavery was like, and to talk about Shelby as if she were just released from a plantation shows how utterly clueless and insensitive you are. Shelby has been free her entire life.
Please share with us your "slavery" experience, and what it was like.
Emancipation in the western hemisphere took place in the mid-/late-1800s.
Maybe you don't know anything about your great-grandparents' lives, and if that's the case I feel bad for you and your family. But anyone who has read a book or ever engaged with an older person and the past can know something about the state of the world in in the 1830s-1860s (and before that).