![]() There are similar double-backs on not wanting to compete anymore, and on the supposed inability to explain how the substance got into her body. ![]() She mentions the end of her career repeatedly, seemingly re-forgetting she’d already announced it each time. Compton’s statement carries the disordered anguish of someone who cannot fully accept their fate. ![]() I’m Not UnsympatheticĪnd I mean, I get it-this is tough emotionally. But regardless, it’s someone making a case for her own trustworthiness not being fully honest with her audience. Maybe it’s her way of saying “you can’t fire me, I quit”. Maybe Compton wants to avoid “officially” ending her career with a suspension. Testosterone (as the offending substance seems to be) doesn’t survive oral consumption well, and doesn’t come on taco trucks, making accidental ingestion a tough case.ĭating the retirement decision to March feels like a transparent attempt to take less of an “L”. It sounds a lot more like Compton initially decided to fight the charge, and just couldn’t find a reasonable source for the substance in question. Forgive me for thinking that seems like an awfully expensive and time-consuming thing for a now-retired athlete to do for the sake of pride. In the same breath, Compton also mentions she’d “hired a lawyer” and done her best to “investigate how the substance got into system”. So why make the retirement call in March? If Compton could manage to track down the source of her positive for a similar sanction, she’d have been back in competition well ahead of a planned farewell season. This feels deeply incongruous-she didn’t announce her retirement in March, after all.Īnd as Compton very well knows, Denise Betsema got barely a six-month vacay in a very similar case. I have never intentionally or knowingly put anything like that into my bodyīut then she starts the next paragraph by abruptly declaring that that she “decided to retire in March”. Compton at first appears to be no different. The next step is generally the athlete trying to show they didn’t intentionally ingest the substance. Still, Compton doesn’t question the test result. She’s even own-goaling a bit by highlighting that there are two separate data points indicating her guilt. So while I think Compton means to make this seem suspicious, she’s actually describing the correct protocol. They then performed a specific, more expensive test that confirmed a doping positive. Basically, USADA saw something in Compton’s September sample that looked wrong next to her other tests. But if I’m reading it correctly, this sounds a lot like an Atypical Passport Finding (ATPF), backed-up by Confirmation Procedures. The bio passport guide is long and dense. It’d be like saying your DNA didn’t match the crime scene but then there was “this thing with the police” and now you’re being charged with murder. OK, so let’s stop on “bio-passport irregularity”, a phrase that is full-term pregnant. In early February of 2021…I learned that the same sample from September was re-analyzed due to a bio-passport irregularity and found to be positive for an exogenous anabolic steroid. I provided a sample for USADA in September 2020 that came back negative for any banned substances, it was not even atypical.Įxcept that it very clearly was atypical, as Compton’s own statement admits later. ![]() ![]() Passports, PleaseĪfter leading off with a statement about being a clean racer, Compton gives case specifics at the top of the second paragraph. It’s a heartfelt, emotionally-resonant mess, but ultimately doesn’t present a compelling argument or leave the reader with a particularly innocent impression. Response #1: Compton’s StatementĬompton’s statement-visible in full at the bottom here-is a mess. Not necessarily because Compton tested positive, but because she-and especially her husband-did such a terrible job responding to the news. The Katie Compton news is settling in like an uppercut to my soul.- Peter Flax August 11, 2021īetween top-level results, ready availability for fans and media, and just generally being bad-ass, no other US cyclist comes close to matching the good vibes Compton gathered over her 19-year career.īut for me, all of that went out the window this week. ![]()
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