As a result, her Olympic trials results have been erased, and she won’t be allowed to compete in her signature 100-metre dash at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
If anything, it’s just, you know, something WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, just feels is bad for the image of its athletes.
And if you think about the stigma around drugs, there’s the stigma of criminality and negative stereotypes and images.
The rule does need to change because times have changed.
If that’s the argument, we’ve got to ban sports psychologists.
He has come out to say, as well as a few other experts, that cannabis, weed, does not give athletes a performance-enhancing edge.
But the issue is, even though our sentiments in North America have changed around marijuana and its use, in other countries it’s still very illegal.
WADA is very slow to adopt change, and so even if they were feeling extreme pressures to have this removed from the list, I mean, we’re not going to see this removed, I would say, in the next five years, if 10.
From the friends and insiders that I’ve talked to, it seems like the USATF , the governing body for track and field in the States, is behind her, which is great.
So to answer this, I think there’s a strong sense we might still see her.
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