1 year since Shelby Ban: What have we learned?

#5 is a solid point

Pretty messed up how a lot of those media sources were quick to play holier than thou when an East African tested positive, or even with anything NOP related. But when a likeable Bowerman Babe/shelbo800 tests positive, *crickets*

Nothing.

I was well aware of 1 - 3, and 7 - 9, before Shelby was caught doping. 4 will never happen for obvious reasons, 5 and 6 are sad, and 10 is interesting.

That it's essentially impossible to have 300 g of uncastrated boar meat in your carne asada burrito.

That any shelby thread you start will lead to 36 pages of posts

And with that falling flat "someone sabotaged me and the timing was so perfect, it happened right when I was doing things I have never been capable of for an extended period of time, right when I was finally reaching my potential". Damn the bad luck.

Kara's passion for "Clean Sport" is real, except for caucasian friends who are compromised . Same with Emma C . They are the first 2 to like Shelby's Insta time trial posts.

11. Courtney Frerichs can't be trusted

Run defensive strategy past someone with common sense and an objective ear.

Ok, what I have learned:

11 - that the brojos and JG openly support a banned doper just because they like her coach

12 - that some pork "offal" includes only outer stomach - as in Shelby's food truck - and none of the weird stuff

13 - that the availability of corn actually went up during Covid because of decreased demand for ethanol

14 - that Nike pays lots of PR guys working hard on letsrun

Learned something about bias.

The first night it was treated like a tragedy. With just Shelby's POV it felt like an injustice was done. Plus the whole running community rallied to support her.

Then she was entered in the trials and that turned a good amount of heads. That was the first indicator that it felt less like an injustice and more like someone who can't accept that the rules apply to them too.

Then the CAS summary came out, and it felt certain that she had in fact cheated. And also, it poked a million holes in the story she her lawyer and J & S spun.

Then twoggle came forward, a sketchy anonymous source that felt like a plant.

Then the full report came out and it was a nail in the coffin.

Then she asked everyone for money on her bogus go fund me page.

Then it came out that she was still training with BTC and being coached by J & S and bumping into teammates on runs, making them uncomfortable.

Then her appeal was denied.

Now we wait for the full report from the swiss court.

What a sad state of affairs. What a repulsive liar. I wish she'd tell the truth instead of dragging this sport through more mess.

Also, anyone see Elise lately? Time for round 2...

And that a lot of letrun posters need to retake middle school science.

The unanswered question was this a rogue action or just something everyone was doing. And if the group is willing to do this, what are odds they aren't also taking EPO and the rest?

Misogyny

That the Brojos love Houlihan.

I guess the second part of this would be what have we not learned?

Well a few things

The identity of Twoggle

Where the nandrolone actually came from

Like another poster said, was this a rogue effort or is all of BTC on something

The true nature of Jerry and Shalane coaching Shelby post ban

When she started doping

why all the US running community and media appears to be biased towards her

And that LRCers love another PED user who is also white but younger

90% of which are by the same few individuals arguing in circles for weeks or even months.

Made me question everything. Why schumacher's athletes always look juicy: diced to the socks with ripped effing abs and big muscle bellies while running east African times i.e solinksy (did I do that right? I haven't been in school since HS.) Shelby popping hasn't really been the lightning rod though, it was the reaction from the team and coaches that had me second guessing... It was all just a bad lie. I'm not against exploring options that will give you a competitive edge, but just admit when you got caught.