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Shelby Houlihan, a record-holder runner from the Portland area, was banned from the sport for four years after failing a drug test in December.
PORTLAND, Oregon. Shelby Houlihan, a record-holding Olympic runner who lives in the Portland area, was banned from the sport for four years after failing a drug test in December.
Houlihan, who holds the US 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter records, went to the 2016 Olympics and had planned to go to the Tokyo Olympics in July.
In an Instagram post on Monday, she claimed she tested positive for a banned steroid called nandrolone because of a pork burrito, which she ate in a food cart near her home in Beaverton the day before. drug test.
Some studies show that pigs, especially the liver of uncastrated males, can trigger a false positive for nandrolone.
The Athletics Integrity Unit informed her of the test results on Jan. 14 and suspended her from the sport. She claimed she had never heard of the steroid and had to research what it was.
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“Within 5 days of the notification, I made a food diary of everything I ate the week of this test on December 15,” her Instagram post said. “We concluded that the most likely explanation was a burrito bought and eaten about 10 hours before this drug test at an authentic Mexican food truck serving pork offal near my home in Beaverton, Oregon.”
Houlihan’s attorney Paul J. Greene told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Wednesday that the burrito she ordered was actually a carne asada burrito like in beef, not pork.
“They think Houlihan received the wrong order or a burrito that included pork,” Greene told the WSJ. “They are not sure.”
In her Instagram post, Houlihan wrote that she also believes the lab should have done more testing. His attorney told the WSJ that the order was irrelevant and that the doping lab analysis had not been performed properly.
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The International Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected those explanations earlier this month, saying in a press release Tuesday that Houlihan had not proven the origin of the substance in his system and had not shown that the tests were poorly managed.
Yet Houlihan firmly maintains that she did nothing wrong.
“I did all I could to prove my innocence,” Houlihan wrote, adding that she had passed a polygraph test and had hair tests that showed no accumulation of nandrolone.
“I want to be very clear. I have never taken any performance enhancing substances,” she wrote. “And that includes what I am accused of.”
Houlihan will not be allowed to compete in competition until January 2025.
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