Ahh, burritos. The catalyst to midnight cravings, bean-induced gas, and positive performance-enhancing drug tests? Earlier this week record-breaking American middle-distance runner and Olympic hopeful Shelby Houlihan tested positive for an anabolic steroid called Nandrolone, leaving her banned from the upcoming Tokyo games less than one week out from the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and potentially facing a four-year ban from the sport. Despite the test's questionable results, Houlihan, maintains her innocence, alleging that the positive test was the result of *checks notes* a fancy pork burrito?
“I feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry, confused and betrayed by the very sport that I loved and poured myself into just to see how good I was,” the star athlete wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “I want to be very clear: I’ve never taken any performance-enhancing substances, and that includes the one of which I have been accused.”
However, it seems that officials remain unsure of whether or not she's telling the truth. “I did everything I could to prove my innocence. I passed a polygraph test. I had my hair sampled by one of the world's foremost toxicologists,” Houlihan continued. "Wada agreed that test proved that there was no build-up of this substance in my body, which there would have been if I were taking it regularly."
So folks, next time you have a drug test, maybe go for pasta instead, lest you find yourself temporarily banned from your favorite sport.
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