Dara just one the national title in the 100M Freestyle in 54.4 at the ripe old age of 40. Simply Incredible. :applaud: :woot:
If that's not inspiring I don't know what is.
I was not really aiming that at you Fort, just to be clear. My comment was aimed at the people who wanted her locked up, thrown in jail, and to have her entire life ruined. That is either emotion or ______.
I'm sorry, this isn't a case of her getting lost in the woods and missing badly hidden trespassing signs.
If JH knowingly took a banned substance (and I'm pretty sure I have used the word IF when referring to punishment) in the face of all the info, handouts, policies, seminars, advice, object lessons, etc. then she has only herself to blame.
And a lot of folks seem to be missing the point, the tests are there to see if the conditions of competition are as fair as can be had. A positive test, REGARDLESS of knowingly or unknowlingly consuming a banned substance, indicates that the conditions were not fair. So who cares whether JH knew it, didn't know it, was walking by a massive Clenbuterol spill the day before, she was competing under conditions that the other competitors were not.
But as has been pointed out many times here, there is an established appeals process that will be the final arbiters of punishment. And there may be extenuating circumstances that we don't know. But regardless of that, JH should not be allowed to compete if the test results were valid. And as far as anyone knows, they were.
I was not really aiming that at you Fort, just to be clear. My comment was aimed at the people who wanted her locked up, thrown in jail, and to have her entire life ruined. That is either emotion or ______.
I'm sorry, this isn't a case of her getting lost in the woods and missing badly hidden trespassing signs.
If JH knowingly took a banned substance (and I'm pretty sure I have used the word IF when referring to punishment) in the face of all the info, handouts, policies, seminars, advice, object lessons, etc. then she has only herself to blame.
And a lot of folks seem to be missing the point, the tests are there to see if the conditions of competition are as fair as can be had. A positive test, REGARDLESS of knowingly or unknowlingly consuming a banned substance, indicates that the conditions were not fair. So who cares whether JH knew it, didn't know it, was walking by a massive Clenbuterol spill the day before, she was competing under conditions that the other competitors were not.
But as has been pointed out many times here, there is an established appeals process that will be the final arbiters of punishment. And there may be extenuating circumstances that we don't know. But regardless of that, JH should not be allowed to compete if the test results were valid. And as far as anyone knows, they were.
