Originally Posted by
OBoile
For the record, I think she was guilty because she had a banned substance in her body.
Note: regardless of how it got there, it's the athlete's responsibility. So even if she ordered beef but got pork instead, and that pork happened to be in the ~2% of the pork in the USA that has this substance, and she happened to consume enough of it to show up on a test (I've heard 3/4 of a pound), she's still guilty.
Of course, that's all about as likely (Occam's Razor anyone?) as an elite athlete, in a sport with many dopers, not knowing about Nandrolone... which she also claims.
You were a competitive power lifter. Would you buy tacos from a street vender immediately before a competition knowing they could be tainted, and then eat it when you get something you didn't order? Say your chances of being in the Olympic depend on you passing drug tests, is that bad taco worth the risk?
Maybe she's never heard of cheating before and made it so far without being aware that people dope.