This looks like a cover up by US T&F to save the career of a box office star. How likely is it that she tested positive for more than just cannabis, but they’ve used cannabis as part of a PR exercise to save her career?
This looks like a cover up by US T&F to save the career of a box office star. How likely is it that she tested positive for more than just cannabis, but they’ve used cannabis as part of a PR exercise to save her career?
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I mean WADA considers THC to be a masking agent, so there is a chance she had other drugs in her system that we don't know about. That being said, we can only go off of the actual facts. She was busted for cannabis, which WADA considers a banned substance. She openly admitted her guilt this morning, so in my mind that's all that needs to be said.
She made a poor choice, will serve her suspension, and then move forward in life. Not much else needs to be said.
JustSayNoThanks wrote:
How likely is it that she tested positive for more than just cannabis, but they’ve used cannabis as part of a PR exercise to save her career?
Not likely at all, people are really grasping at straws eh?
This actually crossed my mind. WADA amd USADA are joke organizations that are more like a business than an indifferent mediator. They care about PR and the image of the athletes in track which in turn pays their salaries. Getting hush money has been documented before (see the Diack's who led WADA). I would think they'd be able to overturn a ruling for weed in this day and age but the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to believe the "weed" was a front/agreement/plea bargain arranged with an athlete who perhaps tested postive for a more reprehensible banned substance. After all, her performances are incredibly suspect at the very least.
JustSayNoThanks wrote:
This looks like a cover up by US T&F to save the career of a box office star. How likely is it that she tested positive for more than just cannabis, but they’ve used cannabis as part of a PR exercise to save her career?
Absolutely. If I was going to post a new thread asking about the likelihood of marijuana being used as a masking agent. But even if it isn't, I can absolutely see this as one of those times when Athletics organizing bodies save their athletes by having them agree to lesser charges, as it were.
Yet as others have said, her performances could be considered suspect. And what is interesting is how someone who is as naturally effervescent and cocky as her, has so readily accepted the ban. If it really was just marijuana, surely she would know that The court of public opinion would be on her side, and as a result she might be able to have the ban overturned or at least lessened to some degree to still allow her to compete in Tokyo. But she seems to be rolling over and submitting to what, for many people, looks like a case she could actually win.
To me all of these very much suggest that your theory is extremely possible. You get my vote 100%.
They could have easily have said the samples were mishandled so no ban at all and she gets to run the 100 and may may never actually have known anything happened. That is a pretty simple cover up if they we going to orchestrate one.
Unlikely.
Very
[quote]ForFusion wrote:
I mean WADA considers THC to be a masking agent
I don' think so.
o WADA lumped marijuana in with hard drugs like cocaine and heroin. And, said Pound, “it just sort of stayed there."
For a substance to make WADA’s prohibited list, it must satisfy at least two of the following three criteria, WADA says:
It represents an actual or potential health risk to the athlete;
It has the potential to enhance or enhances sport performance;
It violates the spirit of sport
A WADA spokeswoman, when asked, did not clarify which criteria are responsible for marijuana’s inclusion. A USADA “Marijuana FAQ” cites a 2011 paper co-authored by two WADA scientists, who claim that:
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.”
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.”
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.”
Scientific and societal perceptions of marijuana have evolved since 2011, however. Many Americans would consider that third bullet point an outdated view. And many scientists would push back on the stance that marijuana both “poses a health risk to athletes” and “has the potential to enhance performance.”
A 2018 paper co-authored by Alan Vernec, WADA’s medical director, concluded that "there is no evidence for cannabis use as a performance-enhancing drug."
Oliver Catlin, the son of anti-doping pioneer Don Catlin and co-founder of the Banned Substances Control Group, told Yahoo Sports: “I am not aware of any potential for marijuana to be performance enhancing or to be used as a masking agent.”
She was using it to mask for the burrito she ate. 1 month for weed beats 4 years for a burrito.
Look at her muscles at the trials versus her muscles at LSU. There is a significant difference. Of course, since the 100 and 200 hundred are not restricted events, there might be more to the story for many of these sprinters than their appears to be on the surface.
I don't think she tested positive for something else, but I do think she could be taking this relatively well because she's doing other things that she's not currently being popped for.
That said, I like her and wish her the best.
And here is Vernec's paper
Cannabis and the Health and Performance of the Elite Athlete
You mean her muscles after two years of being a pro athlete with access to a personal nutrutionist,, trainer and not having to go to class giving her the ability to put more time into all aspects of traing including weights. ok
If that is your take, you must have went craaazy about Matthew Boling's muscle gain in the ew months from hs to indoor. Lol
JustSayNoThanks wrote:
This looks like a cover up by US T&F to save the career of a box office star. How likely is it that she tested positive for more than just cannabis, but they’ve used cannabis as part of a PR exercise to save her career?
Bingo....That's the first thing I thought of....
and I believe they have been doing this for 20 years...Letting the athlete off on a minor recreational drug instead of a PED.
i dont think shes hard core but she looks like shes on a cocktail of a few different drugs.possibly winstrol ,anavar and HGH,and even a low dose injectable steroid.maybe 'the clear' is still around.
Typical LRC sponsipracy crap.
Sha"carrie is your typical weekend toker. But was dumb enough to do it while competing and racing and got busted for her stupidity.
no more no less.
ForFusion wrote:
I mean WADA considers THC to be a masking agent, so there is a chance she had other drugs in her system that we don't know about. That being said, we can only go off of the actual facts. She was busted for cannabis, which WADA considers a banned substance. She openly admitted her guilt this morning, so in my mind that's all that needs to be said.
She made a poor choice, will serve her suspension, and then move forward in life. Not much else needs to be said.
Yes! Masking agent. That's what I've been saying but my posts keep getting deleted. And, yes...1 month is better than 4 years so...
jeff tallon wrote:
i dont think shes hard core but she looks like shes on a cocktail of a few different drugs.possibly winstrol ,anavar and HGH,and even a low dose injectable steroid.maybe 'the clear' is still around.
You have an interesting definition of hard core...
Bunchb of haters on here.
The only thing suspect about her runs was the fact that she couldn't get out of the blocks worth a sh!t. Her reaction time in the final was so slow you'd almost believe she was smoking weed...
wait...
What?
Dig deeper wrote:
ForFusion wrote:
I mean WADA considers THC to be a masking agent, so there is a chance she had other drugs in her system that we don't know about. That being said, we can only go off of the actual facts. She was busted for cannabis, which WADA considers a banned substance. She openly admitted her guilt this morning, so in my mind that's all that needs to be said.
She made a poor choice, will serve her suspension, and then move forward in life. Not much else needs to be said.
Yes! Masking agent. That's what I've been saying but my posts keep getting deleted. And, yes...1 month is better than 4 years so...
Your posts should be deleted because you are a moron. No one uses Marijuana to mask anything because marijuana is so easy to detect. A masking agent is something you can explain having in your system, or something that removes it from your system, such as a diuretic. Marijuana is useless doesn't occur naturally in the body and the test for it is as easy as staking out a Taco Bell drive through at 2am.