For the record, please take note of these facts - she tested positive on two samples, she left the team. All this crap about her day in court, blah, blah, blah. Don't take supplements, how complicated is that rule to follow? Intentionality is IRRELEVANT, give me a freaking break. What a bunch of whining apologists. She's a doper, plain and simple. Get a grip!
I agree with Geek's thoughts. She took the cowards way out of this by going out the back door. She knows full well she took PED and got caught dead to rights. She also knew she had ZERO legs to stand on before the proceedings and rather then face the music, she slides out the back door still giving us this BS about her innocence.
I think she is a cheater, a liar, a coward, selfish, self centered and now gutless...And, I think her coach knew exactly what she was taking based on his past history!
Gosh, I thought I pretty much covered my thoughts ---
This struck a nerve with me because of the terrible injustice this caused to the swimmers denied their place on the US Olympic team ALL born out of JH selfish cheating. The years and years or early AM wake ups and two a day workouts and the thousands and thousands of yards swam were rendered meaningless by a lousy self center, selfish decision to CHEAT--and-- innocent, dedicated, honest, hard working clean swimmers paid the price for JH actions. That is deplorable in my thinking. I intentionally have not sugar coated my thoughts because of the horrible injustice to the clean swimmers that were ripped off by JH---
Two years on the bench is NOT ENOUGH!
Whenever you cheat, you not only hurt yourself but others... if they didn't find Hardy's PED test until after the Olympics, terrible things could happen like this...
www.cnn.com/.../index.html
Heartbreaking and disgraceful. It makes me sick.
Agree with most of the sentiment here.
“While some might have chosen to exhaust their legal options to try to force their way into the games, Jessica instead chose to put her team’s interests ahead of her own,” said Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of USADA.
Did he have a puke-bucket at his side so he wouldn't have to vomit all over himself after having to issue that statement? Sounds like there was some behind-the-scenes agreement that USADA will make a statement thanking her for dropping the appeals process and Hardy essentially admits guilt.
But of course they'll stick to their story about how she was one of the unlucky who happened to take a supplement that was tainted with a banned substance. Yeah right, and Barry didn't know the "clear" was a steroid. I feel bad for all the young girls who no doubt looked up to her.
Shame on Jessica, in the court of public opinion, you are guilty as charged. My advice would be to stay away from swimming for a while. Like... permanently.
And a VERY big shame on Mark Shubert and USS for getting the results of the test the day they had to turn in the final team rosters and choosing to not name alternates.
Agree 100%. USA-S management and (lack of) planning for this situation was deplorable. Their public statements are completely pathetic - e.g. we are following procedure.
It is no surprise to me from Mark - considering his unethical behavior in the TYR vs. Speedo case.
I know nothing about that case and therefore chose not to speak on it. But, you keep right on quoting it like it excuses her cheating ways. I do know that JH is a lying cheater, which is the topic for this thread. You somehow seem to think because she has a lawyer and can't spell the cheating drug she took that she must logically not suffer the consequences of her actions.
By your own admission she is a cheater and not contesting the results of her test. Why continue to defend her? Supplements are Russian Roulette, take them at your own risk/peril.
The KV case doesn't excuse anything JH may have done and I never said or implied that it did. What it does do is illustrate that not everyone who tests positive knowingly cheated and that if you give people a chance to defend themselves sometimes you get surprised that things didn't happen the way you ASSUME they did. The Dumont case is another example. You ASSUME that JH deliberately cheated. There's a good chance you are correct. But I think that the hearing process was designed to ensure that people have the opportunity to demonstrate that assumptions aren't necessarily correct. The KV and RD cases demonstrate that a positive test isn't always the result of a deliberate attempt to cheat and that the truth sometimes comes out in the ensuing process.
If you reread what I wrote more carefully you might realize that I am not defending HER, I am defending the right to a fair process including the chance to present a defense. The conclusions you have come to about my position cannot reasonably be inferred from what I've written.
Paul Smith said:
She bought the gun, she bought the bullets, she aimed, and fired....on two separate occasions....benefit of the doubt? I live you Fly...but I REALLY am glad your not a homicide detective or DA!
What do you mean two separate occasions?
I agree with your sentiments on JH, but the A and B sample were drawn at the same time. She "aimed" apparently once - after her first race at OTs.
My reading of the reports is that she has only agreed not to contest the validity of the test results. That means she is off the team even if she could conclusively prove that someone slipped her drugs without her knowledge. Her lawyer indicated he is still working on an explanation for the test results. That could have a bearing on the length of her suspension. If reports are true that her supplements are clean it's going to be interesting to see if they can come up with any sort of plausible sounding explanation. It's not looking good for JH, but she'll still get her day in a hearing.
