“I feel betrayed by the sport I loved,” Houlihan said. “I want to be very clear: I’ve never taken any performance-enhancing substances. ... I will not accept a four-year ban for something I didn’t and would not ever do.”
In a Zoom press conference hosted by her team, the Bowerman Track Club, Houlihan, her coaches, and her attorney vigorously disagreed with the decision by the Athletics Integrity Unit and said she had been unfairly accused after ingesting contaminated pork.
The level of nandrolone found in her test was extremely low, Greene said, so low that it became impossible to distinguish where it came from. The AIU, which conducts drug testing for the World Anti-Doping Agency , “simply concluded that I was a cheater,” she said.
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