Olympic hopeful blames positive steroid test on burrito

A middle distance runner with Olympic dreams said she was banned for four years after she tested positive for an anabolic steroid that she believes came from eating a pork burrito.

Shelby Houlihan, who holds the American record for 1,500 and 5,000 meters, wrote in an Instagram post on Monday that she had been provisionally banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for nandrolone, a steroid that can also be found in pork.

“I feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry, confused and betrayed by the very sport that I’ve loved and poured myself into just to see how good I was,” Houlihan wrote in the caption of an Instagram post.

“After being charged by the AIU, Ms Houlihan’s case was heard by a three-member panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which made its decision after hearing evidence and arguments from the athlete’s lawyers and the AIU. CAS has informed us that the full arbitral award with grounds for the decision will be issued in due course,” Brett Clothier, who leads the AIU, said in a statement, USA Today reported.

Houlihan’s ban comes just before the start of U.S. Olympic trials and a little more than a month before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics where she was expected to compete, according to USA Today.