https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/57692193

Tokyo 2020: US sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson set to miss Olympic Games after positive cannabis test


US sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson has received a one-month ban after testing positive for marijuana - and is set to miss the Tokyo Olympics.

The 21-year-old won the 100m at the US Olympic trials in Oregon in June and earlier this year ran the sixth-fastest time in history.

But the Texan's positive test means her qualification result has been expunged.

"Don't judge me, because I am human, I just happen to run a little faster," she told NBC's Today show.

The athlete's positive test came at the Olympic trials event, where she finished well clear of the field in 10.86secs

The trials came just a week after the death of her biological mother, and Richardson explained she had used cannabis as a way of coping.

"I apologise for the fact that I didn't even know how to control my emotions or deal with that during that time," she told the US broadcaster on Friday.

As Richardson was giving her interview, the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) announced she had accepted the suspension for what it said was "a substance of abuse" rather than for enhancing performance.

"The rules are clear, but this is heartbreaking on many levels," said Usada chief executive Travis Tygart.

"Hopefully, her acceptance of responsibility and apology will be an important example to us all that we can successfully overcome our regrettable decisions, despite the costly consequences of this one to her."

The ban runs from the date of her provisional suspension, 28 June.

In theory she could be free to compete at the Olympics as her suspension ends before Tokyo's track and field programme begins on 30 July.

But her results at the trials have been wiped out and Usada said her eligibility for Tokyo would be a decision for US Track and Field (USATF) and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

When asked whether she still hoped to take part in the Games, Richardson said she would focus on herself, and suggested she would not be competing in Tokyo.

"I greatly apologise if I let you guys down - and I did. This will be the last time the US comes home without a gold in the 100m," she added.

"I'm 21, I'm very young, I have plenty of Games left in me to compete in and plenty of talent that backs me up because everything I do comes naturally to me, no steroids or anything.

"This incident was about marijuana so after my sanction is up I'll be back. Next time I step on the track I'll be ready for whatever anti-doping agencies come and get whatever they need because this will never happen again."

USATF said it would be supporting the sprinter.

"Sha'Carri Richardson's situation is incredibly unfortunate and devastating for everyone involved," it said. "Athlete health and well-being continue to be one of USATF's most critical priorities and we will work with Sha'Carri to ensure she has ample resources to overcome any mental health challenges now and in the future."

Cannabis is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and carries a ban of up to four years.

However, that can be reduced to three months if athletes can show taking it was not related to sports performance.

Any ban can be reduced further still, to one month, if athletes agree to a treatment programme.

over her mother's death.


I don't follow sports much... is the USATF likely to have her back on this or no?

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>over her mother's death.
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weed is legal in some states now and not sure if/how it's classified
as a performance enhancing drug? nevertheless, pretty sure she knew it
was an illegal substance. this is really unfortunate, i feel for her.

From their statements, it looks like they want to have her back (as well as NBC since she was going to be their golden goose). But the rules seem pretty clear.

Her results at the US Trials are deleted, so there's no way for her to qualify for the Olympics. Unless they find some way to bend and stretch the rules.

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Her suspension will apparently be up before the 4x100m. Given our various relay mis-steps over the years, it would be smart (independent of Richardson, but obviously she's the inciting incident here) to give themselves more flexibility in the relay pool.

The wildcard here is Nike, obviously. There's a reasonable argument to be made that, of the various institutions running track and field, they're the most powerful. If they really wanted to throw their weight around on this, it'd be interesting to see what happens. Or, rather, they throw their weight around for things I don't want to happen pretty much all the time (see: the continued involvement of Richardson's notoriously dirty and comically unsuccessful coach being given purview over the relays for years) so if that's an inevitability it'd be swell to see some good come out of it.

Between this and the stupid Mboma thing, I'm really bummed out about how this sport manages to trip over its own dick so regularly. I've been coaching for a decade now, and the longer I go the more it seems clear that the various duties of "track official" manage to attract the ugliest, pettiest tyrants that we have to offer. Just miserable dorks who want to take something fun and beautiful and ruin it with their ideology-driven authority.

Sigh. I imagine you may have a different opinion about paragraph two - which is fine. I like arguing with you about track, to be honest. But I'm just here to complain so I'm probably not going to on that topic.

On the plus side, I might get to tote some of my kiddoes up to the very scaled down Penn Relays Summer Session in lieu of the past two years of cancellations. They'll be psyched about that if I can pull it off.

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Sorry if a dumb question. But are you suggesting there might be some kind of loophole(s) to could keep her in?

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so on that alone, she should be able to run it.
The relay team qualified....not the individuals. The team can slot in whomever they prefer...technically..

So you may need some follow-up questions when I screw up this part. Each national federation gets to make its own rules within some very, very broad guidelines, so this is USATF only. BUT... basically, the "relay pool" for both he 4x100m and 4x400m only has one requirement: that you compete in the Olympic Trials.

The problem for Richardson there is that her positive test basically disqualifies her, so technically (please note this is not a defense of the dumbass system) she did not compete in the trials.

Beyond that initial requirement, each relay pool is 6-8 runners. Everybody who finishes top-four in the 100 and 400m (inclusive, obviously, of the top three who make the team for those individual events and the 4th place finisher) is automatically in the pool, but they're the only ones who seem to be guaranteed a spot.

USATF would be within its rights to revise the "must compete in US Olympic trials" rules, to include Richardson. They're just national federation track rules, not the Torah, after all. That's it. That's the loophole, that USATF says "nevermind, we want Richardson in the 4x100m and by IOC and WADA rules, she's eligible to compete in the Olympics."

But since the requirement that the athletes eligible for the relay pool was already established prior to the Olympic Trials, they set themselves up for a lot of arguing and potentially lawsuits by the folks who finish 5-8th in the Olympic Trials because ultimately that's the problem - a spot that Richardson takes is a spot somebody else can't have.

So, short answer: they can absolutely put her on the 4x100m team if they want. She'll be done with her suspension and eligible to race, it's only relay selection rules that are standing in her way. If Nike weighs on USATF and no individual athletes make a fuss, then it wouldn't really take much at all.

edit: The reactionary assholes who manage the anarchic track site populated with gruesome teen libertarians have, for once, made themselves useful and are trying to exert public pressure for those other 100m runners to not protest Richardson's inclusion - so the idea has legs.

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thanks for this

She is who she is. I don't want them to regulate their natural bodies.

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I agree. And I apologize for misunderstanding your point of view (which is reliably thoughtful even when I disagree) on this.

She was born and they said "congratulations, it's a girl" and was raised with people saying "you're a girl" and now she's suddenly being told she's not the right kind of woman by people who won't consider, even for a moment, that their view of these categories is influenced by ideology.

I literally watched her 48.56 yesterday morning. What a miserable day of track that started off very nicely. I woke up, saw some chatter on twitter that this teenage girl from Namibia had blitzed the field at some tiny meet in Poland and thought "that's something I would really like to see" and then cued it up on YouTube, made my endlessly patient wife watch it with me and cheer for her weird form and wild "I don't care if I'm not supposed to be get out this fast" strategy.

By early evening, it was "Mboma out at 400m and Richardson banned for Tokyo"

At least Warholm's world record was fun to watch, though that guy looks way too much like Elon Musk for me to cheer for.

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I guess it's much harder to classify Black African women as female than to consider/admit their actual methodology is clearly biased.

Like, between the Mboma and Masilingi bans,

the Sha'Carri ban,

the ban on swimming caps that can accommodate afro/black hair texture

smh

I'm basically turned off of all of it right now.

I don't know what all needs to change (and hopefully diversificaton of these regulatory bodies is part of it) but they're taking the fun out of this shit fr.

Looks like it's about to be a quite stressful/unpleasant era to be a world-class Black female athlete.

And thought they were doing good, like ... in the world. I think the additionally frustrating thing is that there's no safety in the other end of the spectrum. Nobody in this weird, niche sport has performed the dual roles of athletic greatness and traditional femininity as skillfully as Allyson Felix, and she *still* got done dirty by Nike when they decided that she no longer served their bottom line.

This problem, as you point out, is much larger than track. And even in the broader world of athletics, it's really just kind of emblematic of something much larger, where institutions ostensibly designed for fairness end up being used for domination and control. I'm not very optimistic about the diversification of these regulatory bodies, but it's pretty clear that having the same people in charge isn't really going to fix anything so it certainly couldn't hurt.

I've been involved with this sport for a long time, running through high school and college and now coaching for about ten years. My team hosts 12-15 meets a year, spread from cross country through indoor and outdoor track, and my delightfully bonkers boss wants each event to be as big and open as possible - so we're probably talking about 5,000 kids coming to race at our events each year. Our ethic is pretty simple: if you've got a measured track, a clock, and a starter then this sport pretty much regulates itself so once you've got those things then it's in everybody's interest to just stand aside and let the kids have fun trying to be great. Every four years when the Olympics come along, it's incredibly fun to watch casual fans go from 0-60 in their interest in the sport and develop favorites because I know that's probably happening all over the world too. And it's going to mean more kids at our meets next year having fun and maybe making something incredible happen. And I felt it happening this year in this doubly profound way because it coincided with people starting to feel a bit more at ease with respect to the pandemic. I realize that's not at all universal, but soooooooo many people latched on to Richardson specifically as this weird, tiny epiphany of greatness and joy that it seemed like a genuinely perfect moment for the sport and for people in general.

The phenomenon of people who look at something interesting and yell "I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE!!" has always seemed incurious and obnoxious to me. But (and this is almost certainly due to some severe obtuseness on my part but there's no time like the present to realize things) it's never really seemed quite so insidious and damaging.

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didnt have weed in their systems a few years back?

okay

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

reminds me of a weedhead, not sure if he is or not

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but I seriously doubt he would get suspended from the olympics if he was caught with weed in his system.

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and fuck up their 4 year opportunity. We’re talking all across the world.

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and its highly presumptuous to assume you have more Olympic Games in you

i was hoping she'd be the one to finally beat the jamaicans

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I planned to try tuning in to at least to catch her races. Seemed like one of the more exciting women to run since flo-jo

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>i was hoping she'd be the one to finally beat the jamaicans

I feel bad for her for what she is going through with both the death of her mother and the fallout from the suspension.

But the rules are the rules and eveyone around the world has to abide by them.

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>But the rules are the rules and eveyone around the world has
>to abide by them.

Like, I'm familiar with this silly tautology because I live in a world where people seem to keep saying it, but what do you think is occurring when people look at an obviously silly rule and say "we should change that" and then they just ... do? Are the rules the rules then? What happened that the rules stopped being the rules? What on earth do you think it means to explain the world in a way that makes literally no account for the concept of change and how do you square it with what you observe every day as time passes?

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As of today, weed is banned. if enough people push to change it, then it'll get changed.

You can't break a rule and not expect to deal with the repercussions under the assumption that they'll make an exception for you and change the rule for everyone else going forward.

She was wrong for using, but a death that close to the heart gotta be tough to deal with.

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plus add in the grief from missing out on this opportunity as well

she prob isn't feeling so great atm

I hope she has a good support system around her

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Sad that she didn't have the discipline to wait just a couple of months to transform her life.

I think she can come back. I just wish we didn't get so easily tripped on our way to the top.

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or maybe moreso ignoring her agency and quick to chalk it up to some dumb shit. easy to do if we framing it around all the stupid shit i was doin at 21 but i dont know if this is that.

i mean world class athlete with tens of thousands of hours of discipline and training, but we cant imagine her making the conscious decision to deal with her trauma with one of the few peer-reviewed anti-depressants with negligible side effects - just cuz she might get caught? what about goin crazy lol?

its a trip cuz with the news i figured anti-depressants were on the olympic ban list. NOPE. multiple brands/types allowed. niggas talkin bout "rules are rules" lol. the same peers that reviewed marijuana reviewed zoloft. so it aint really a wonder to me why she wouldnt jump to take those drugs (socio-historical and other shit aside).

my point is its within the realm of possibility that she well knew the consequences and the hurt was worth the risk, so she did what was best for her at the time.

she might be in the building ANYWAY for the relays. *side eye emoji*

I haven't seen it here but people i've come across who keep saying she's too hood are using this as an "I told you so" moment. Like smoking weed is some exclusively hood shit.

Then it's the people who are acting like she burns one before every race. Like c'mon fam.

All that and the trauma angle aside, I'm of the mind that most of the athletes are probably all smoking recreationally, it probably just stayed in her system longer than she expected.

>RE: My issue is people that are like "told you she doesn't belong there"
>I haven't seen it here but people i've come across who keep
>saying she's too hood are using this as an "I told you so"
>moment. Like smoking weed is some exclusively hood shit.

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most Americans have zero knowledge of track and field, and don’t understand
how anti-doping protocols work in track and field. And they don’t
understand that track and field is governed by an international federation.

Most Americans don’t even have a passing knowledge of track and field, and
are only chiming in because media outlets have picked up this story as a
hot topic. It is one of the biggest trending topics on all of social media, and
everyone is giving their perception and opinion on the matter.

The problem with that is, people are using it to push other agendas. They are
putting the issue in the rings of sexism, racism, depression, xenophobia, etc.
Some people are evening blaming our government for not getting involved, as
if our government has any jurisdiction or governing powering in track and field.

It’s quite comical and disturbing at the same time. However, society as a whole
has never been grounded in reality, and accepting and realizing the truth requires
too much discipline for most people, because people are driven by emotion and
not logic.

Also, society is extremely ignorant when it comes to science ( in this case chemistry).
There are several different strains of Marijuana, and each strain acts differently.
Marijuana can be used as a relaxant, stimulant, and as a pain suppressor. THC
is the main chemical that creates those altering effects, and it is the chemical that
is banned in track and field per WADA anti-doping rules and regulations.

By ingesting or smoking marijuana, an athlete can have an increase in pain
and stress tolerance, muscle recovery, mental clarity, and it can improve
once’s sense of well being. Those are performance enhancing benefits
that can give an athlete an advantage over the field of competition. And on
the opposite side of those benefits, marijuana can be a health risk to some athletes,
because each person’s body responds differently to the drug.

So WADA bans marijuana because of the following:

- It can be used as PED
- It can be a health risk
- It kills the the spirit of the game.

All athletes are required to participate drug free to ensure an equal opportunity
playing field for all competitors.

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By ingesting or smoking marijuana, an athlete can have an increase in pain and stress tolerance, muscle recovery, mental clarity, and it can improve
once’s sense of well being. Those are performance enhancing benefits
that can give an athlete an advantage over the field of competition. And on
the opposite side of those benefits, marijuana can be a health risk to some athletes,
because each person’s body responds differently to the drug.

So WADA bans marijuana because of the following:

- It can be used as PED
- It can be a health risk
- It kills the the spirit of the game.

All athletes are required to participate drug free to ensure an equal opportunity
playing field for all competitors.

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i don’t consider wada governing body directives as a scientific study. theres been a thousand articles recently detailing the negligible effects of marijuana as a ped.

but fuck all that lets say weed fails wadas three point list. we can also ignore that antidepressants on the approved list have some of the same effects. why the green light for alcohol? alcohol aint changed ingredients. niggas just aint trying to drink and go hoop.

niggas can disagree over the definition of arbitrary i guess but that wasnt even my original point

in an endurance sport.

Antidepressants like Valium and Xanax are like tranquilizers. They leave you
DROWSY and LETHARGIC, and an athlete could pass out at the starting
line. No endurance athlete in their right mind is going to take an antidepressant.
It’s counter-productive.

No athlete is going to drink alcohol while in competition. Alcohol dehydrates
the body and it could impair the mind and vision.

While in competition as an endurance athlete, there is a strict practice with what
is and isn’t ingested. There is no room for experimentation or chancing anything, because it can severely affect the performance of the athlete. Most athletes
stick to a routine drink and food intake while in competition so they don’t get an
upset stomach or have an allergic reaction. It’s a very, very strict routine.

Smoking anything can lead to oxidative stress and can damage the heart and
lungs, so a track athlete smoking makes zero sense. Endurance sports is about
oxygen intake, and the more oxygen you have ,the more energy you will have.
This is the health risk that WADA focuses on, and why smoking marijuana is
banned AND SHOULD BE.

Lungs and Heart are the engine to the body of an endurance athlete....so She’carri
smoking anything is just pure insanity.....and anyone condoning it is not a real friend
or supporter

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Also, why focus on the impact on endurance athletes when she's a sprinter?

She definitely made a poor choice on how to self-medicate herself during an emotional time and I'm perfectly fine with the punishment for that... but don't act like she recklessly endangered her health or was seeking some sort of performance advantage.

I think your distaste for her style and general focus on PED's effect on the sport is influencing your judgment.

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No matter if you run sprint or distance....you still need oxygen to run.
Sprint is just more anaerobic, but that doesn’t mean that oxygen isn’t important.
And yes she SMOKED it.

Holland(Amsterdam).....legalized weed ,like what, 40 years ago? People went
there because a person could basically smoke anywhere at anytime.

Do you see the great athletes of that country protesting to smoke weed?
No

Do you see their top athletes smoking weed?
No

They wouldn’t and will not do some dumb shit like that to compromise
their bodies.

Do you see Jamaicans smoking weed? A country known for growing and
smoking weed? Usain Bolt smoked weed as a teenager, but stated he
stopped once he started running track.

But leave it up to Americans who feel entitled.

These are top,top, elite athletes of the world, with highly athletic bodies.
I’m glad none of you guys are coaches, officials or scientists.
Athletes are not random people off the street, and just because you smoke
weed, and take chances with your health, doesn’t mean that an athlete should.

Imagine an athlete smoking some weed or eating edibles from the streets of Tokyo,
not knowing where that shit comes from or what kind of strain it is? ...do you
know how dangerous that is? And there is synthetic weed out there that
people are going crazy off of.

This is why it is not allowed in competition....

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Your arguments sound like your building a strawman army to support the idea you just don't like her.

The idea that great athletes are not using marijuana recreationally is PREPOSTEROUS. Not testing positive != not using and many professional athletes have admitted using marijuana recreationally during their careers once their careers were over.

There's no proof she's a habitual user.

You have no basis to say she's using enough to affect her aerobic or anaerobic capacity.

Ingesting something tainted isn't particularly unique to weed.

Again, it sounds like your distaste for her style is leading you to make this sound a lot worse than it was.

Using weed during a competition is banned. She broke that rule and is being punished for that. But the rule is more motivated by the legal status of weed than potential performance benefits or health risks. So the idea she endangered her health or got some edge is just hyperbole.

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smh typical

It’s crazy. You got people weighing in who have never run track. All the runners
I grew up with and competed against would never put any kind of smoke in their
bodies during competition. And these were just local (state) competitive runners,
not regional or national elite runners.

We barely wanted to eat and drink anything so that we wouldn’t cramp up
or get an upset stomach....so to smoke some shit during competition weekend?
Straight bananas. Eat like a king leading up to competition, and eat like a peasant
during competition...

Poster keeps mentioning her personality....has nothing to do with it.

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being a rule, not before any change is made and the rule still exists.

It’s a shame but she deserves the L , as does everyone saying her punishment isn’t fair

...especially after a workout. Relieves a lot of aches and pains. Also stimulates the appetite, which is also good for training athletes.

Rules are rules, but I can't think of one way where cannabis could be considered performance-enhancing. No reason it should be banned at all, and many athletes could probably benefit from its' use.

No reason she should be apologizing for anything here.

by those who claim weed aint a PED.


It is if you THINK it is.

don't underestimate the minds role in physical health; yeah "...scientific studies are just that - studies. Individuals are individuals - everybody's response to THC is different. Some people actually TURN UP when they smoke. The rules are the rules.

she fucked up.

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If that was the case, it should be against the rules to tell runners their Gatorade is spiked with PEDs

Also keep in mind how long marijuana's effects last. A few hours, right? So how is your placebo TURN UP pack a PED when you ingested it days or weeks before competition?

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I feel so damn bad for her.

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There are so many great black athletes who will be participating in the
Olympics it is insane. And we will not have to deal with the over
media coverage of Phelps or Bolt this time around.

A lot of great athletes will become household names.

She broke a rule that protects the HEALTH of the runners and the
fairness of the game. Athletes who do that get penalized, no exception,
no excuses.

It has nothing to do with race, gender or religion. Amateur sports, like the Olympics
and World Championships, are very strict platforms to uphold the natural performance
of the human body. There are teenagers who compete and perform in these games, which is why the rules must remain strict.

Motherfockers are crazy ..want to legalize a drug for in competition use
that has several different strains, it isn’t FDA regulated, and it comes form
anywhere off the street....

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i mean, they treat weed like the plague in that region.

it FEELS like the powers that be don't wanna deal with the political ramifications that might pop up moreso than her just having some sort of competitive advantage.

Drugs are drugs according to WADA. After Russia came through and crushed the buildings none of that shit is gonna fly.

I'm disappointed that she got disqualified too but unless we all push to remove weed from their substance list, as an athlete, you know what it was when you signed up.

hasn't even hit her prime.

But the bullshit is they suspended her, but made sure her suspension was not long enough to impact her running in Diamond league meets. (not sure if the suspension would even be applicable, but the optics of it - announcers can say, 'shes fresh off of her suspension' that type of shit).

Meanwhile, the Brianna McNeal gets banned for two Olympic games - five years, when she did nothing wrong. That is bullshit.

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This was her second whereabouts violation, and not only that,
she intentionally changed dates on documents to support her excuse.

So not only did she miss 6 drug tests, she tampered with evidence,
and tried to make a fool out of the the agency.

Her first suspension was in 2017 for a whereabouts violation ( missing
3 drug tests in a 12 month cycle with no valid excuse). She came back from her
suspension and did it again, and tampered with documentations.

Punishment: sports death penalty...and she is my favorite track athlete.

She’s one of my favorite athletes...but she focked up big time, and her career
is done.

I wasn’t close to elite, avg competitor ,but I competed fair and square.

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They gave her the standard punishment for marijuana. There's no discretion there. It's actually supposed to be a 3 month ban, but it can be reduced to 1 month if she completes a substance abuse program.

Brianna McNeal on the other hand did not do nothing wrong. She is a habitual violator of anti-doping rules. She was previously banned for a year in 2017 for missing/evading 3 doping tests (3 missed tests in a year = ban).
And she was about to miss her third test in 2020 and tried to forge documents to give a reason for missing.

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First off, how is an abortion a fake excuse?


Secondly, these state sponsored athletes she competes against aren't doping? FOH.

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And the other athletes she competes against go through these same processes. I don't know whether or not they are doping. But I do know they are not regularly missing surprise testing.

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Man I like so many other people fell in love with this girl when I first so her run a couple of weeks ago.

And it was heartbreaking to hear about her suspension. So I went through the process of determining was this an another example of that 'cism at work.

I had two main questions, a.) what are the rules and how have the rules been applied historically.


It seems clear to me she broke the rules pretty clearly. But I am not one of these "Welp, she broke the rules and should have complied!" people. There are subquestions to my point a.) above such as, 1.) are the rules fair? and 2.) were the rules designed for racist purposes?

Hard to say yea for either point a1 or a2. A rule saying no smoking weed doesn't single out black people. Haven't heard a good reason to think otherwise.

More important to me than did she break the rules personally is, how are the rules enforced. I was mainly looking into how much discretion the ruling body had in enforcing the rule. Are some violators getting punished more than others? The thing about this case is that they aren't selective about who has to take drug test (i.e., everyone has to take it) and to the extent there was discretion in the punishment/suspension, the ruling body use their discretion to make her suspension the least amount of time possible per the rules.

I get this countries history has us making the knee jerk reaction that this must be racism but if you spend a little bit of time researching and hearing the arguments how it is racist, the racist claim just doesn't add up.

I don't see the plot to keep the bold outspoken sista out the Olympics to appease the Japanese. She just broke the rules and these are the consequences. Sucks but it happens.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

on this. You've seen outrage from athletes in other sports but I haven't seen much from current or former track folks on it.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

human ignorance.

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Thanks for reminding me why. I made a point, some folks disagreed with it and expressed why. Isn't that the point of having discussions?

you rarely see athletes in a sport say a busted athlete got a raw deal because they have to follow the same protocol.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I can think of former basketball and football players especially speaking out after someone faced sanctions for weed. My theory was that because the margins for success are so thin and track, they're sensitive to anything that gives a perceived advantage (even if that's being more relaxed the day before the meet).

The sport isn't governed by US rules and norms. It's governed by an international organization.
Weed is starting to become no big deal in the US. But it's still a big deal in other parts of the world.

Weed is labelled as a substance of abuse (along w/ things like cocaine, heroin, MDMA) not really a performance enhancer.
That's why the punishment is much lower than PEDs violations (one month with substance abuse treatment program vs 2-5 years for PEDs).

NFL and NBA can change the rules to fit the US changing norms. But it's not as easy for an international sport.

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She should log off.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

These antics are silly.

SHE
GOT
FUCKIN
SMOOOKED!!

Not edged out live to fight another day beat. She came in last place in the event. Talking shit and not congratulating the winner who ran one of the fastest times ever seems silly.

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https://twitter.com/dilemmv/status/1430550731589828611

good luck to anyone still tryna defend this chick and blame criticism of her on everyone hating black women.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

https://twitter.com/hatefulgemini/status/1430563493598613509/photo/1