ThisIsFutile wrote:
I don't even care anymore that she isn't offering more evidence, but it would be SO EASY to eliminate so much confusion if she just came out and said "I didn't have a prescription for Cytomel in [insert appropriate timeframe] when Alberto physically handed me a bottle of Cytomel pills." The fact that she didn't simply clear up this point of debate is so frustrating for me, and while it doesn't make her a liar, it doesn't help her case.
What you're confused about is whether it matters if you have a prescription or not for somebody else's bottle of prescription medicine. See the label: "Caution: Federal law prohibits the transfer of this drug to any person other than the patient for whom it was prescribed." Not "a" patient.
There is a huge preponderance of evidence against Salazar at this point, and Goucher is correct that adding more would make little difference, but publicizing it might tip Salazar off to the investigators' next move. It's likely USADA told her to stay quiet.
I smell something bigger going on, too, that USADA might be after. There are just too many fast people suddenly appearing from nowhere, and disappearing just as suddenly. Incredible performances punctuated by crap performances from the same individuals, suggesting a new in-competition drug is being used, likely a new stimulant since sprints are especially crazy this year. Something much better than NOP's erg boosters, inhalers and androgel. And undetectable.
I believe that track is thoroughly corrupt all the way to the top, but there is a chance that anti-doping is trying to raise its game by attacking the doping infrastructure rather than the end-user. They slapped Tyson Gay's wrist but threw the book at Jon Drummond. Maybe Gay's their stoolie now, reporting on Nike.
But for NOP, Salazar has already damned himself by confirming the androgel test, and admitting giving a purported testosterone-booster to a 16-year-old. It doesn't matter if it was legal, just as it doesn't matter that transfusions were legal in 1984. Just like the US cyclists who took blood that year, he will forever be considered a doper.