Obviously only a few people around here have ever heard about tainted testing....breaking the chain of custody....those little annoying things that can happen with the amount of testing going on.....would it put her back on the team.....NO......if that is the case it would still be a 2 year suspension. But again......I will wait for the final appeal decision.......
If it turns out it was voluntary......my opinion.....banned for life from competing.........No tolerance is the only way the message will get through to people....
Said Hardy after finding out she tested positive...
"I was taking notes right when she called, to write down my information and everything and I spelled the drug name wrong even... I was devastated."
Hmmm....
Many doctors may not know how to spell clenbuterol either.
Just because college boy couldn't spell Heineken, doesn't mean that he didn't drink seven of them last night during the ball game.
From
www.nydailynews.com/.../2008-07-30_jessica_hardys_doping_meeting_shrouded_i.html
Hardy's defenders have pointed to drug tests Hardy passed on July 1 and July 6 - as well as Jacobs' characterization of the failed test's findings as a "low positive" - as indications that she is a victim of a false positive.
Jacobs declined to say if he will make that argument, refusing to discuss strategy for the hearing.
Using an anabolic agent during a high-profile, heavily-screened swim meet sounds reckless, but it is precisely the time and place to use drugs that promote muscle recovery, according to BALCO founder and performance-enhancement guru Victor Conte.
"We used THG immediately after the competition," Conte said, referring to the designer drug he dispensed to world-class athletes before getting busted by the feds in 2003. "Because of the exertion and the micro-tears, you need to facilitate healing and recovery."
Hardy, however, claims not to have heard of the drug until notified of her failed test on July 21. Her coach, Dave Salo, suggested to reporters that Hardy should consider whether she ingested a contaminated supplement.
Salo happens to have coached Kicker Vencill, an elite swimmer who was banned for a positive drug test, blamed it on supplement producer Ultimate Nutrition, and later won a half-million-dollar jury award from the Connecticut-based company.
Jacobs was Vencill's lawyer in that case. He has also represented Floyd Landis, Tim Montgomery and Tyler Hamilton, carving out a niche as the country's leading defense attorney for athletes snagged in doping scandals.
Here's a dumb question that I'm sure has been answered elsewhere but I don't know how to look for it. If Jessica Hardy is banned for life from competitive swimming, would that include US Masters Swimming?
Hey, who changed the title of my thread?
The moderator made a personal judgement call.
She is ...not amazing.
And yes change that avatar before geek comes down there and makes you squeal like a pig.
(BTW, you can hear that lovely banjo music in the background if you look at his too long.)
