Olympic hopeful blames positive steroid test on burrito

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A middle distance runner with Olympic dreams said she was banned for four years after she tested positive for an anabolic steroid that she believes came from eating a pork burrito.

Shelby Houlihan, who holds the American record for 1,500 and 5,000 meters, wrote in an Instagram post on Monday that she had been provisionally banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for nandrolone, a steroid that can also be found in pork.

"I feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry, confused and betrayed by the very sport that I’ve loved and poured myself into just to see how good I was," Houlihan wrote in the caption of an Instagram post.

She attempted to appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after she found that she had eaten pork hours before her positive test.

"In the following 5 days after being notified, I put together a food log of everything that I consumed the week of that December 15th test. We concluded that the most likely explanation was a burrito purchased and consumed approximately 10 hours before that drug test from an authentic Mexican food truck that serves pig offal near my house in Beaverton, Oregon. I notified the AIU that I believed this was the source," she wrote. "I want to be very clear. I have never taken any performance enhancing substances. And that includes that of which I am being accused."

On Tuesday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that it would uphold the charge against Houlihan.

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[ALGAYDO 35,083]

Lol this reminds me of when I tested positive for weed in high school, and tried playing it off as some “oh it must’ve been from second-hand smoke because the boys sometimes smoke weed in the bathrooms” bullsh*t 

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

Teas

 

[CautiousLurker 19,709]

The nerve of some people... There's absolutely no place in the Olympics for athletes who are trying to gain unfair advantage by boosting their speed with overwhelming gas 

[Concertaholic 6,578]

 

[weed 78,905]

Am I the only one who believes her lmaoo unless the tests were more conclusive than I see 

[LaLa 19,898]

29 minutes ago, weed said:

Am I the only one who believes her lmaoo unless the tests were more conclusive than I see 

No, I know it sounds like a complete joke, but my sister tested positive for opioids because of a bagel  She went back for a more sophisticated test and was fine, but it definitely happens!

 

[Kadikaado 4,302]

39 minutes ago, weed said:

Am I the only one who believes her lmaoo unless the tests were more conclusive than I see 

 

6 minutes ago, LaLa said:

No, I know it sounds like a complete joke, but my sister tested positive for opioids because of a bagel  She went back for a more sophisticated test and was fine, but it definitely happens!

 

 

  I actually believe her because olympic Athletes from the USA have access to much more sofisticated drugs that won't appear in common drug tests. Nandrolone is something you'll find on an average amateur  bodybuilder, not an olympic athlete.

 Bagels with poppy seeds can give you false positive for opioids really easy.

[PartySick 172,486]

4 minutes ago, Kadikaado said:

 

 

  I actually believe her because olympic Athletes from the USA have access to much more sofisticated drugs that won't appear in common drug tests. Nandrolone is something you'll find on an average amateur  bodybuilder, not an olympic athlete.

 Bagels with poppy seeds can give you false positive for opioids really easy.

I didn't know this was a thing

She should definitely demand a review then.