Shelby Houlihan, the American record holder in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters, posted on social media that she’s been banned for four years following a positive test for what she concluded was a tainted pork burrito.
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I was ready to write this story off as another athlete caught doping and trying to lie about it, but maybe she’s telling the truth. I found a study showing the link between nandrolone and eating pork as early as 2002.
Should one positive test (which could be a false-positive!) for a banned substance get you kicked out of your career for four years or should there be a follow up? She had her hair tested to prove there had been nothing in her system over time and submitted to a polygraph, and neither of those sound like the actions of someone trying to pull one over on the competition.
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