PS. We didn't put this in the article, but for the record, when Kyle called Jonathan back, he started the interview by squashing the doping rumors.
"That could not be further from the truth relative to doping. That’s not true at all, so not quite sure where that came from."
Then he said this later:
"You have my word, nothing even remotely close [to doping]."
Insider info, announced 13 minutes ago, she was popped for missing a drug test. She apparently wouldn’t go to the door when Wada was there for a random drug test.
If you are going to lie at least make it believable. You get three missed tests.
If she really is doping is it that easy to get through the US Olympic Trails and Olympic Finals without testing positive?
The USADA database has Valby tested 10 times. 6 in 2024, 4 in Q1 2025 alone, 5 in q3 2024, 1 in q2 2024. Truthfully that 2025 number is pretty high for someone who competed once (and wasn’t necessarily tested after that race), though I understand some tests count twice right? Valby is not in the AIU RTP, so this is all USADA.
That’s the total number of samples, not the number of times tested.
I always knew she was lying, just like how I knew my friend Bob was secretly operating an underground speakeasy out of the back of a 24-hour laundromat in Queens.
Bob was the kind of guy you’d never peg for that sort of thing. He wore corduroy pants in the summer and collected vintage stamps. Harmless. Dull, even. But Bob did always have this certain mysterious presence, always excusing himself at 11:47pm. Always 11:47. Said it was “when the koi fish in his apartment needed feeding.”
I didn’t question it at first. But then one day, I dropped by his place unannounced to return his Tupperware (Bob had an unhealthy obsession with making layered seven-bean dips), and I noticed something strange: no fish tank. It was mildly unsettling... what could he be hiding??
I started picking up on things. Every Wednesday night Bob would leave the trivia bar during the music round to "dry-clean his neighbor, Brenda's, night gown". I always found it peculiar, but only then started to really pick up on it. On Thursdays, he would deposit cash at the bank after his morning pilates class with his wife, Sarah.
Then, one sinister Friday night, when the fog settled over the blackened street, I followed Bob into the laundromat (during his typical nightly visit... this was his main occupation). However, he entered via a mysteriously over covered back entrance.
Inside was another world. Low light. Velvet wallpaper. Men in suspenders and fedoras sipping gin from porcelain teacups. A live band played smooth Jazz covers. And there he was, behind the bar, wearing a crimson vest and a monocle, Bob.
“Name’s not Bob here,” he told me, without blinking. “It’s Lafayette Slim.” Turns out, Bob had inherited the space from his great-uncle Gino, a jazz pianist turned bootlegger. The speakeasy had run for decades in secret.
Bob ran the entire thing. From the music, to the menu, even the secret password "Ellington". He had a whole double life. While the world knew him as the weird guy with strong opinions on lentils, by night he was the bougie jazz club owner that read out the midnight poetry competition.
So yeah, when I say I always knew she was doping, I mean it. Just like I knew Bob wasn’t just a Tupperware-loving, koi-feeding stamp collector. He was Lafayette Slim. And he owed me a rum and coke.
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