Is Shannon Rowbury jumping on the anti-Alberto Salazar bandwagon w/o naming him? What does this quote mean?

While the inevitable rush to fill in the unknown blanks in the Hollobaugh story with the most lurid imaginable details may be off-putting, speculation about exactly what Rowbury meant with her unspecified comments is perfectly natural. Some people seem as averse to this curiosity as to its ribald results, but it would be weird to follow track closely, be witness to Salazar's rise and fall and the dissolution of the NOP, be treated to bombastic op-eds in the NY Times about the whole thing, and then see comments like those from Shannon Rowbury and just think "Huh, I wouldn't connect that to any of the chaos up there in Oregon" before moving on to the next section of the story.

It's precisely because Rowbury has always rubbed a lot of people the right way, and come back after having a daughter to continue running rather quietly at a very noisy level, that the "Why did she go there?" question has all the more gravity. But regardless, to the extreme cynics, I think it would be odd for even an oblivious interview subject (and Rowbury is the opposite of that) to offer comments like those about her own undisclosed behavior rather than someone else's.

Yeah, I am a Rowbury fan, and have met her. I read the article with interest and could not figure out what she was talking about. The comment seemed a bit too cryptic to have been about something innocuous (I can't go to Vegas whenever I want).

I don't blame her for the Mary Cain situation in any way, shape, or form (I don't think Cain was mature enough for what she was getting into). But I am naturally curious about what went down, and her take on Salazar, which she's never really disclosed.

Dallin wrote:

Wise Old Man wrote:

You are bad mouthing a truly good person. Shut up and take your hate elsewhere.

She is a doping cheater. She is not a good person. I don't hate her, but I do think that she should be in prison for cheating.

Who are you? And why are you posting on this thread? Do you have any evidence of her cheating? Do you know her?

Grow up and settle down!

Aouita 84 wrote:

Dallin wrote:

She is a doping cheater. She is not a good person. I don't hate her, but I do think that she should be in prison for cheating.

Do you have any evidence of her cheating? Do you know her?

Plenty of well known evidence of Roid Rage Rowbury cheating. I don't associate with dopers.

Wise Old Man wrote:

Dallin wrote:

The doping cheater Roid Rage Rowbury doesn't have the right to call out ANYBODY, even the doping cheater sleazy sal.

You are bad mouthing a truly good person. Shut up and take your hate elsewhere.

How many times do we have to go through this argument? Just because someone is nice and generous with their time doesn’t mean they wouldn’t dope. Regina Jacobs was pretty nice to me when I met her at Millrose. There are plenty of examples of smiling cheerful people who got busted. They are not all going to fit the villian profile.

I don’t have much of an opinion on SR other than she seemed to represent her country well in 3 Olympic finals. She does, however, have at least one huge problematic association, and fair or not, that will always follow her around. Maybe that’s part of the price she’s talking about.