Because the guilty person is little matt, who got distracted enhancing their burritos and enhanced her's twice, and failed to enhance his own. little matt knows the Salazar gray-zone limits by heart.
she handled it very badly. she could have accepted liability without admitting she intentionally doped and still got the 3 years. to proceed with the story she had, which never had any chance of succeeding, was madness.
I talked to two people at BTC at the time it happened (who just happened to be at track meets where I was) and they said it was because nobody involved believed Shelby had doped. They were vehement. They also agreed that the burrito thing was clutching at straws, but they had no other idea of how it could have gotten into her system.
If you were 100% certain that you hadn't doped, would you admit you had to get a shorter sentence?
p.s. I am agnostic on this. The options are: guilty, innocent, sabotage, guilty via tainted supplements, etc. are still all on the table. I have no idea what really happened but we all know the burrito was not the vector by which the nandrolone got into her body.
I talked to two people at BTC at the time it happened (who just happened to be at track meets where I was) and they said it was because nobody involved believed Shelby had doped. They were vehement. They also agreed that the burrito thing was clutching at straws, but they had no other idea of how it could have gotten into her system.
If you were 100% certain that you hadn't doped, would you admit you had to get a shorter sentence?
p.s. I am agnostic on this. The options are: guilty, innocent, sabotage, guilty via tainted supplements, etc. are still all on the table. I have no idea what really happened but we all know the burrito was not the vector by which the nandrolone got into her body.
We know exactly how she got it. She was dating Matt C who liked buying burritos for them. You know, that Matt C who was coached by Salazar who got banned for pushing the grey zone drug use on his athletes.
Unfortunately, her story falls in line with a long history of doping excuses: Adri van der Poel blamed a pigeon pie (yes, you read that correctly).
- Floyd Landis blamed dehydration from drinking whiskey. - Alberto Contador blamed a tainted steak from Spain. - Petr Korda blamed veal. - Gilberto Simoni blamed spiked Peruvian sweets. - Alexi Grewal blamed muffins.
^^^ This. That will be joke for the ages, like the sex with the wife.
I bet it was PR: she took one for the team, in order to reduce the doping questions BTC would otherwise get bombarded with. In turn she got this absurd press conference with all those embarrassing lies, and ongoing verbal support from the other BTC members, and enough cash so she could keep training during those years without needing a real job.
p.s. I am agnostic on this. The options are: guilty, innocent, sabotage, guilty via tainted supplements, etc. are still all on the table. I have no idea what really happened but we all know the burrito was not the vector by which the nandrolone got into her body.
Shelburrito explored the tainted supplement option, and took it off the table.
Sabotage is always possible, but for a surprise test? You'd have to sabotage her daily, until the tester finally comes the next morning.
p.s. I am agnostic on this. The options are: guilty, innocent, sabotage, guilty via tainted supplements, etc. are still all on the table. I have no idea what really happened but we all know the burrito was not the vector by which the nandrolone got into her body.
Shelburrito explored the tainted supplement option, and took it off the table.
Sabotage is always possible, but for a surprise test? You'd have to sabotage her daily, until the tester finally comes the next morning.
Unless the tester is part of the sabotage. Possible.
She took 4 years probably because she is innocent, but who knows -no athlete can prove with 100% accuracy themself clean / food contaminated (no such test yet)…