Why didn't Shelby take the 3 year ban? Plead guilty and be back to competing in January 2024

Rojo- they all come up with stories and lie. Shelby is guilty and had help. Those are facts

JFC stop simping for Shelby, bro

You are poorly informed, or are spreading Fake News again. CAS didn't buy "some of her explanations"; they only bought 1, namely:

Point 101: "The Panel finds that it is possible that – contrary to what the Athlete ordered – she was handed a burrito containing pork meat."

My wording (possible but improbable and possible but highly improbable) was of course the correct one, occurring a number of times, no matter how much you pretend CAS saw it differently:

Point 106: "Based on the above, the Panel finds it is possible but improbable that the meat of an uncastrated boar ended up in the burrito that the Athlete ate."

Point 109: "Thus, based on the above, the Panel finds it possible but highly improbable that normal pork products in the US food supply chain, in particular pork stomach, would show elevated androgen levels."

Point 114: "The Panel finds it possible but improbable that the ingestion of boar meat (cryptorchid) would have resulted in the urinary concentration found in the Athlete’s A- and B-Samples"

And finally there is the problem of the synthetic character of her nandrolone based on the carbon isotope determination, which - even if all of the above improbable and highly improbable scenarios would have simultaneously occurred - renders the burrito scenario completely null and void:

Point 119: "The Panel finds that the carbon isotope signature of the Athlete’s A- and B-Samples is neither consistent with the carbon isotope signature of commercial pork in the United States nor her own signature."

Reminder: all of the above decisions were unanimous.

Reminder II: even point 106 alone would have been enough for a guilty verdict. Or point 109 alone. Or point 114 alone. Or point 119 alone. Hard to imagine a more obvious guilty verdict.

It was an “improbable” verdict. It’s been awhile, but I don’t remember anywhere in the report that proclaimed her as being guilty.

I've always felt the point 119 was the nail in the coffin and don't recall hearing a plausible rebuttal to that. If anyone has one, that would be great to get a link to it.

It seems like the most likely scenarios were:

a) another PED she was taking was contaminated with nandrolone accidently in the lab.

b) she received an injection that she didn't want to list (e.g. L-carnitine, a performance peptide, etc.) that was contaminated with nandrolone accidently in the lab.

c) some OTC supplement she was taking was accidently contaminated with nandrolone without her knowledge.

d) she actually chose to dope with nandrolone. I find this one the least likely of the the four given that this wouldn't be your go-to PED for a variety of reasons. However, it obviously could've been that she was already on the more traditional PED EPO and was using this as an additive.

Personally, I think it's A or B.

actually one of the leading ways you'd test positive for it is taking a nandrolone precursor.

Facts are not facts only because you are saying so. You have to give some arguments and reasoning, and weigh pros and cons in a case. As everywhere in life.

If the pigs ate soy, as conceded by the AIU expert Prof. McGlone, (or any other "C3" plant such as rice, wheat, and potato), this would produce a different carbon isotope for nandrolone.

Generally speaking, innocent persons do not like to plead guilty.

I think she and her team and her lawyer thought she would get a fair process.

Dont forget ajee wilson (:

Jerry made himself like a fool also when he came out of seclusion for that silly press conference defending Shelby and stated that he had never heard of nandrolone...

This seems to be the turning point of the downfall of BTC and Jerry's prestige in hindsight. Since then he's lost all of his great athletes, became the director of T&F/XC at UofO which has seen zero success in his tenure and which has also lost it's former prestige, and now his disgraced doped runner continues to try and make herself relevant despite a complete and definitive rebuttal of her fraud and a four year doping ban, the longest ban given in the sport.

He shouldn't be allowed to ever coach again and in fact his fellow disgraced Nike compatriot, Alberto Salazar was punished despite never having an athlete test positive for doping.

She just needs to go away and Jerry Schumacher does too. "I've never heard of Nandrolone" is all we need to completely judge him by.

Okay -so you have so little arguments that you have to split hairs and quarrel about slightly different wordings that clearly means the same: I wrote possibly but not probable one place; of course I there am referring to possibly but improbable that is the wording that CAS uses. The point is that CAS here is weighing probability, can’t see any Fake news or disagreement here…

And then you are hung up in my “some”. Okey -Shelby was believed in her testimony of buying a burrito. She was believed in the timing. She was even believed in her (and her friends) feelings about the burrito being greasy, and therefore made of pork -is this being believed in only one thing or some? Man, why quarrel about this -I did add the word “burrito” like this: (burrito) so I think you know what I meant… Is this really what you mean by Fake news..?

But you keep on with your citing from the CAS papers (on and on) about improbable -do you really think I meant something else when I wrote not probable. CAS’ whole point was that things were possible but improbable. Why should I contest that they meant that..?

And then you cite point 119 without CAS’ premisses. And in that way you make it clear that Shelbys test results for nandrolone aren’t compatible with her own natural nandrolone or nandrolone from commercial pigs. But the thing here is that (above average) soy fed uncastrated boar meat would have given exact the signature the test gave -you forgot to mention this, and that CAS’ down estimate of the possibility here is why Houlihan was convicted…

Shelby is dirty and the facts show that. Her story is ridiculous and she had help getting drugs. We know who did them with her and who gave them to her and it’s was not Jerry.

Everyone in her circle - coaches, teammates & the rub down guy - they all say this is not like her and defend her on these allegations.

I admire the way she has stayed fit during this persecution. I was glued to Flotrack as she closed in 67 seconds to break the Beer Mile World record.

At the time I thought Jerry saying he'd never heard of nantralone was just B.S. But he seems to be a bit of a "ghost" that sticks to himself and keeps his group "sheltered" .. Maybe just maybe if you don't show interest in outside influences or barely talk to anybody then this scenario is possible. Seems highly unlikely Though .

Nope. Aside from the fact, that Prof. McGlone is not an AIU expert, he only "conceded" the possibility of a short time of somewhat more soy for some pigs, which in his expert opinion wouldn't have changed their final carbon isotope ratio. That statement remained unrebutted, so I suggest you accept it as being correct.

This is 100% the answer