FACT: Whearabouts requirements are a 60-minute time slot (between 05:00 and 23:00 hours).
FACT: Shelby was audited on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 during a given window.
FACT: Shelby failed the control.
FACT: A burrito consumed at 19:00 hours on Monday, December 14, 2020 would be the earliest available time frame during the 10 hours it would have taken for the a place in that window to the first available time slot the doping controllers would have access to Shelby the following morning.
FACT: Shelby was banned, as on the balance of probability, she was unable to establish the source of the prohibited substance.
NO RELEASED FACTS: What time the test was administered
NO RELEASED FACTS: What time Shelby purportedly ate the burrito
FACT: It was also a Total Solar Eclipse on December 14, 2020.
FANTASY: As far as conspiracies go, maybe the 19-norandrosterone seeped into her out on a run at 08:14:39 the morning leading up to the choice burrito when the moon passed between the Earth and Sun.
FICTION: The work of imagination Shelby and her team put into drumming up this fable is not only untenable, but objective reasoning dictates that these are extremely improbable events .
If enough athletes eat bad meat, there will be a failed doping control. To the person who fails the audit, it’s surprising and miraculous, but the fact that someone fails wouldn't surprise the rest of us. That's because with a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.
That it's never happened in the US where corn is apparently the thorn in the side of BurritoGate, is because corn isn't the culprit in this particular case.
In fact, it's not about the burrito. Shelby couldn't prove there wasn’t such a thing, neither was she able prove that there was. So she was left with … admonishment and a four-year forced hiatus.
Beyond the balance of probabilities, people. Shelby couldn't point to an actual causal mechanism for her test, because she'd have to know the burrito, the truck and the processes perfectly to be able to prove that.