Starling Marte's corrected statement

[beerguy55]

Neglect and lack of knowledge have led me to this mistake somehow getting caught with the high relatively minimal price to pay of being away from the field that I enjoy and love so much. With much embarrassment and helplessness pragmatism and insincerity, I ask for forgiveness for unintentionally disrespecting so many people who have trusted in my work and have supported me so much doing everything I need to do to continue making millions of dollars, and avoid relegation to a minor league contract that is below minimum wage. I promise to learn the lesson that this ordeal has left me, and do a better job of avoiding detection in the future, like so many of my peers are able to do. God bless you

[gnhbua93]

That looks like Braun's statement.

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[Rich Ives]

Last year there was a non-USA athlete that:

Took a drug called <name1> where she lived.

It was also called <name2> in other countries.

It was legal when she took it.

It was banned under the name <name2> after she took it and she failed  test because it was still in her system.

ex post facto ban was not considered a valid excuse and she was suspended.

[beerguy55]

1 hour ago, Rich Ives said:

Last year there was a non-USA athlete that:

Took a drug called <name1> where she lived.

It was also called <name2> in other countries.

It was legal when she took it.

It was banned under the name <name2> after she took it and she failed  test because it was still in her system.

ex post facto ban was not considered a valid excuse and she was suspended.

Last year a non-USA athlete took a drug that was legal where she was born and first prescribed to use it, a country already proven to engage in government sanctioned doping programs, but regardless, the drug was not approved in her country of residence, and therefore used illegally there.

And though the drug was not technically banned by WADA until the beginning of said year, it had known performance enhancement qualities, for many years beforehand (leading to its eventually inclusion on the ban list) and any said medical reasons for taking said drug were almost certainly farcical, and simply cover for the real performance boosts gained.

Much like the craze in the 90's of athletes taking Sudafed "to treat a head cold".

Athletes are going to take any drug they can to boost their performance, and any time they can do it under the guise of a medical condition to warrant exemption or excuse, they're either going to find themselves inflicted with whatever medical condition is required...OR, if they do legitimately have a medical condition, they're going to find the otherwise banned drug to use to fix that condition.

[Radie 88]

Didn't she just win in her return?