Full Shelby Houlihan Report is Out from CAS

As Ms Houlihan has been charged with a sports crime, drug enforcement has decided she was guilty—and she was treated as such with the burden of proving innocence resting solely on herself. She, like others in her position, should have had an easier time dealing with the arbitration system, but as we can see, that’s not the reality. Ms Houlihan had a very difficult time trying to prove her innocence, and failed.

That probably was a long, expensive bill trying to fight, even if that gets tucked into NIKE opex.

Has the dear woman, if she's truly innocent, filed a lawsuit against any of the hordes of persons involved in this catastrophic sequence of events? Will she file a lawsuit against either the polygrapher or the hair tester for providing incompetent or negligent testimony as expert witnesses?

Some steroids are orally active, some are not. It has to do with whether they survive metabolism by the liver and enter the bloodstream in active form.

Nandrolone is inactive orally. You can take a pro-hormone that's supposed to survive the liver but there are a few papers showing that people taking these pro-hormones don't really see strength training benefits -- so it's unclear if these 'orally-active' preparations actually work.

WADA bans nandrolone. I don't see why they should bother to distinguish the route of administration. I don't believe that "it doesn't work orally, therefore I wasn't taking it intentionally" is a valid defense, but still worthy of discussion. To me, the inactivity of nandrolone orally increases the probability that her story is correct, or at least that this was tragically unintentional, but I still mostly agree that CAS did not deem this probability enough to reject her ban.

pull yourself up by your bootstraps wrote:

pg 30 "The fact that IBP/Tyson (the plant where the food truck in Beaverton

bought the pork meat from) does not operate a boar kill plant. Thus, it is

“near zero chance” that any boar meat would get mixed with

conventional fresh pork products"

I think the use of the word "authentic" is supposed to conjure up a racist thought, that is buritto truck was serving illegal/untested meat.

Yep. That this whole defense was steeped in racism wins no points. An innocent white runner duped by an evil authentic Mexican food truck and their weird inhumane *ethnic* food practices. BS.

And also, enough with the shoes. It's meaningless that she chose not to wear them. Shelby could have wanted to give the outward appearance that she was a clean athlete with a boatload of talent, tenacity and work ethic. The dope isn't as visible as the shoes.

She also could have been lying to herself about what she was actually doing (most likely microdosing) and not wearing the shoes made her feel like she wasn't actually cheating.

Or the shoes might not have worked well for her or she might not have felt comfortable in them.

I’d like to hear more from Rojo about her shoes.

Her appearance has nothing to do with it. Nandrolone isn't used for building muscle mass. Nandrolone is useful for healing tendon and ligament injuries. It was the offseason so she was likely trying to recover from a nagging injury by taking Nandrolone orally before returning to training.

bladerunner wrote:

rojo wrote:

I meant to say much less likely,

I don't understand. Her new muscular appearance alone had many questioning the legitimacy of her times. Her explanation was not believable by any rational person. Who eats something that tastes as horrible as pig organs? And yet, because she didn't wear a carbon spike, you think she's innocent?

To me, her appearance was always a dead give away. No other middle distance looks like she does. She could step into an MMA ring and look right at home. Compare her to Hassan, Muir, and all other stick figures she races against.

Are you mentally challenged? (serious question, if you are I don't mean to be rude). Hassan is a 10k runner and the freakiest of freaks of our generation. Muir and Houlihan have pretty similar builds. Not saying anything about Kipyegon, Frerichs, Purrier, Hiltz, Hull, Simpson?? You just look dumb with that comment hahahahahaha

Interesting, I appreciate the clarification.

confounder wrote:

flyingfrog wrote:

Cliff notes please

You’re too lazy to read a measly 44 pages?

What do you expect from someone who doesn't know it is Cliffs Notes.

There is a lot of variability in NA/NE excretions after eating boar in the literature. 2-3x, at the low levels discussed, is not implausible for an elite athlete with low body weight.

Taking a prohormone would make your urine levels SPIKE to like.. 200x what she tested. It would have been terribly coincidental to test her at exactly the time in her excretion profile when her concentrations were pretty consistent with contamination.

That said, her story relies on a lot of other coincidences happening as well.... so who's to say.

Shelby came up with an American excuse but people at CAS are not American.

I wouldn't be surprised if she tested positive for nandrolone with USADA before, used this excuse and got away with it.

Yep. If you are not convinced after reading this, nothing is going to convince you short of a confession.

It took a confession for most Lance apologists to change their tune. Then the goal posts just moved to everyone was doping.

Katie Mackey

Karissa Schweitzer

Shannon rowbury

Marie Lawrence

Colleen quigley

Sara Vaughn

Jenny Simpson

Rachel Schneider

A probably incomplete list of runners who have lost us titles and making global teams to Shelby. If this were any other athlete, this would be the thing we’d be talking about.

Authentic isn't anything but an adjective that many restaurants use to describe food. People are insufferable with finding racism in anything/everything.

post nups wrote:

rojo wrote:

I meant to say much less likely,

Shocker

rojo, never represent yourself in court.

'Did i plead guilty your honour? i meant NOT guilty'

FartKing69 wrote:

pull yourself up by your bootstraps wrote:

pg 30 "The fact that IBP/Tyson (the plant where the food truck in Beaverton

bought the pork meat from) does not operate a boar kill plant. Thus, it is

“near zero chance” that any boar meat would get mixed with

conventional fresh pork products"

I think the use of the word "authentic" is supposed to conjure up a racist thought, that is buritto truck was serving illegal/untested meat.

A lot of strange, thinly-veiled racism on Shelby/BTC/Nike's part here. An "authentic" food truck. Saying she some people order food that wasn't "basic" like "chicken and beef". It just sounds like really naive white people looking for some sort of boogeyman, and it turned out to be Mexican people here.

Nothing thinly veiled about it. But it works. Look at this forum defending her.

It is implausible that pigs can fly ...

Many seem to forget that she only presented the food explanation as nothing else could be identified.

Thus; she did not say that the food was the explanation .

I agree with the panel that her possible explanation should be rejected.

I still favour sabotage.

pupil3142 wrote:

post nups wrote:

Shocker

rojo, never represent yourself in court.

'Did i plead guilty your honour? i meant NOT guilty'

If the carbon shoes don't fit, you must acquit!

My takeaway is that if Lance Armstrong won 7 straight Tour de Frances riding a cheap tricycle that Rojo would assume he was clean.

ummm wrote:

Authentic isn't anything but an adjective that many restaurants use to describe food. People are insufferable with finding racism in anything/everything.

It was not just the use of the word but the way it was framed. i