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Man, I really hope nobody treated Brittney Griner like that when she came home... "Hey, I know you're an Olympic athelete who has been unfairly persecuted for

• saxonww 4y ago
  Yeah... In that example though it's a basketball player caught with vape pens in her luggage, not olympic doping. The big difference is that she's not harmed her reputation with her behavior, like Hans has (or she would have were it Olympic doping). For better or worse, we care about how people represent themselves, and at least in the US vape pens don't impact your reputation like allegations of cheating do.
• MichaelCollins 4y ago
  Griner is accused of some drug offenses, but AFAIK not doping. She's not accused of cheating in her sport. In either case, she may well be too old to continue playing competitively when she comes back. But both she and Hans might still find careers in the sport as coaches. By all accounts Hans is an excellent player, even if he's cheated, and a former cheat could still find modest work as a coach.
• Vrondi 4y ago
  This would be more like _if_ she had admitted to doping during Junior Worlds, then wondered why nobody had confidence in her performance in the Olympics.
• troelsSteegin 4y ago
  FYI, she's still in prison: https://people.com/sports/brittney-griner-releases-statement-from-russian-prison-birthday/ https://people.com/sports/brittney-griner-releases-statement...