Shelby showed us how it’s done. The best 5k runner in the country. Beat out the other American and rest of the field
Can I upvote and downvote this? Shelby and Josette both shared the lead, battled to stay up their until the last lap, and its hard to say either faded. They just didn't kick like the top 3.
Shelby hawked down a fading Tsegay, and Josette held off the rest of the field.
Medals would have been better, but this is a great result for US running. Both women represented the country well, stayed in the hunt for medals, and came away with great world championship results. They should be proud of themselves. We should be proud of them.
PEDs aside, she is stil the most talented us runner of her era. She had the chops and the close to actually go toe to toe with the Africans in her prime, and damn near kicked to a metal today. I can’t wait to see what she is capable in the 10000. America’s Sweetheart is back baby!
The fact that Shelby comes back, is clearly pulling a Gatlin, and the sport still cannot clean itself up makes it unwatchable.
PEDs work! Rekrunner goes home devastated with his crazy theories.
Despite its brevity, this post raises so many questions.
First, I don't have a crazy theory that PEDs don't "work". If a drug doesn't "work", my theories would call it a non-PED. If a drug "works", my theories would call it a PED, because we are talking about a drug known to "work". Suggesting performance enhancing drugs are at the same time not performance enhancing is a Goedel-esque paradox. Saying a PED doesn't work is a bit like saying "every statement is a lie", for if that statement is itself a lie, that proves it must also be true, therefore can't be a lie, therefore ....
In Houlihan's case, there was the question of whether the nandrolone was "endogenous". She couldn't prove it was. Endogenous nandrolone is WADA legal, whether it "works" or not.
Although I generally don't doubt steroids "work" for women, there is also the question of whether ingesting low amounts of nandrolone "works". This is not because the nandrolone wouldn't "work" if it got into the system, but whether enough of it gets into the system to do its "work".
But if we take for granted that it is proven beyond all doubt that the presence of low amounts of nandrolone "works", WADA provides all athletes three WADA legal ways (well two for men) to obtain the presence of such low amounts (and possibly much much higher): 1) get pregnant, 2) take birth control, or 2) purchase and eat intact boar offal, which is by WADA's definition, endogenous -- just keep the receipts so you can prove it.
Then it is the best of both worlds: it "works" and it's WADA legal.
Despite its brevity, this post raises so many questions.
First, I don't have a crazy theory that PEDs don't "work". If a drug doesn't "work", my theories would call it a non-PED. If a drug "works", my theories would call it a PED, because we are talking about a drug known to "work". Suggesting performance enhancing drugs are at the same time not performance enhancing is a Goedel-esque paradox. Saying a PED doesn't work is a bit like saying "every statement is a lie", for if that statement is itself a lie, that proves it must also be true, therefore can't be a lie, therefore ....
In Houlihan's case, there was the question of whether the nandrolone was "endogenous". She couldn't prove it was. Endogenous nandrolone is WADA legal, whether it "works" or not.
Although I generally don't doubt steroids "work" for women, there is also the question of whether ingesting low amounts of nandrolone "works". This is not because the nandrolone wouldn't "work" if it got into the system, but whether enough of it gets into the system to do its "work".
But if we take for granted that it is proven beyond all doubt that the presence of low amounts of nandrolone "works", WADA provides all athletes three WADA legal ways (well two for men) to obtain the presence of such low amounts (and possibly much much higher): 1) get pregnant, 2) take birth control, or 2) purchase and eat intact boar offal, which is by WADA's definition, endogenous -- just keep the receipts so you can prove it.
Then it is the best of both worlds: it "works" and it's WADA legal.
Two corrections: "one for men" and "3) purchase and eat ..."