Runner Shelby Houlihan banned 4 years after testing positive for anabolic steroid, blames burrito

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Distance runner Shelby Houlihan was banned from the sport for four years after testing positive for an anabolic steroid, and she’s blaming a burrito.

Houlihan, who is the current national champion and record-holder at both the 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter runs, wrote on Instagram on Monday that she had been banned for four years after testing positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid.

The “most likely explanation” for the positive test, she said, was a “burrito purchased and consumed approximately 10 hours before that drug test from an authentic Mexican food truck.”

Houlihan said she was initially banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit, and that she appealed the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She was told Friday that, even though nandrolone has previously been found in pork, that it didn’t accept her appeal.

https://sports.yahoo.com/runner-shelby-houlihan-banned-after-testing-positive-steroid-blames-burrito-olympics-team-usa-015346910.html

[True Dough]

1. I mean either way

that burrito was going to give her the PED equivalent of self-propelled gas, so it was highly beneficial!

[JT45242]

2. I call shenanigans

This stinks of Ryan Braun's lies, Lance Armstrong's lies, etc.

The likelihood of a false positive with the tests is negligible and definitely didn't come from a street burrito (which I do not believe that a training athlete weeks from the Olympics qualifying meet was eating anyway). The doping agency made a decision that it was better to let cheaters compete than ban people who might be innocent.

"Any test to detect drug abuse in sport must prioritise
the avoidance of false positive results. The cut-off value
for these formulae, above which these tests are said to be
positive, can be set at a level that renders false positive
values exceedingly unlikely. It is not clear at present
where these cut-off values would need to be set. Preliminary
discussions with sporting authorities and sports
lawyers suggest that a specificity of 1:10,000 may be sufficient
for a legally enforcible doping test." from Powrie et al 2007

She is lying. She cheated. She got caught.

[underpants]

3. She's eating from a taco truck the week of Olympic qualifying?

That’s her training table?
Uh….okay

[PoliticAverse]

4. Consequence of boar edible tissue consumption on urinary profiles of nandrolone metabolites.

From: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10861987/

For the first time in the field of steroid residues in humans, demonstration of 19-norandrosterone (19-NA: 3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-estran-17-one) and 19-noretiocholanolone (19-NE: 3alpha-hydroxy-5beta-estran-17-one) excretion in urine subsequent to boar consumption is reported. Three male volunteers agreed to consume 310 g of tissues from the edible parts (meat, liver, heart and kidney) of a boar. The three individuals delivered urine samples before and during 24 h after meal intake. After deconjugation of phase II metabolites, purification and specific derivatisation of target metabolites, the urinary extracts were analysed by mass spectrometry. Identification was carried out using measurements obtained by gas chromatography/high resolution mass spectrometry (GC/HRMS) (R = 7000) and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) (positive electrospray ionisation (ESI+)). Quantification was realised using a quadrupole mass filter. 19-NA and 19-NE concentrations in urine reached 3.1 to 7.5 microg/L nearby 10 hours after boar tissue consumption. Levels returned to endogenous values 24 hours after. These two steroids are usually exploited to confirm the exogenous administration of 19-nortestosterone (19-NT: 17beta-hydroxyestr-4-en-3-one), especially in the antidoping field. We have thus proved that eating tissues of non-castrated male pork (in which 17beta-nandrolone is present) might induce some false accusations of the abuse of nandrolone in antidoping.