I WANT to believe her because of what she tested positive for. She tested positive for an anabolic steroid, which doesn’t make sense for a distance runner. Distance runners don’t look to put on more muscle. They look to gain more oxygen or more red blood cells, so the PEDS that are used are ones that stimulates the body to produce more red blood cells or that will expand the bronchial tubes.

Also, her hair samples didn’t show a build up of the drug in her body. Plus she has taken over 100 drug tests in her career without ever testing positive, so she has a clean track record.

(note: Lance Armstrong never tested positive, so having
a clean testing history doesn’t necessarily mean that a person is a clean athlete)

However, her reason or excuse for testing positive doesn’t quite add up. Mexican pork burritos, which are called carnitas, are made from pork shoulders and butt. Carnitas don’t consist of pork organs, which is where the steroid is formed inside of pigs.

Her levels of the steroid were very high, and she would have had to eaten 10-15 contaminated pork burritos 10 hours prior to being tested in order to have gotten those high levels from eating that particular form of food.

So I understand why the decision was upheld.