Shrugged family, Anders Varner here. We find ourselves in an interesting place again.

A couple weeks ago we had Russell Berger on after his

firing departure from CrossFit headquarters. This week we find ourselves at Stratham CrossFit.

I don't know if Stratham fit this talking to Emily Abbott after her recent four-year band from CrossFit

for a failed drug test for performance enhancing drugs. Once again Doug was unable to be on the show

unfortunately. I think he would have brought a ton of depth and really good insight into this

conversation. So it's unfortunate but location and timing and the urgency of this interview we were

unable to get him in the room to be a part of it. Instead of focusing on how these drugs entered

into her system, one of my main goals of this was just taking this from the the fact that she failed

a drug test. She 100% failed a drug test. There is no doubt about it. And when she signed up to play

CrossFit this season she told everybody by checking that box and agreeing to CrossFit's terms

that she would not test positive for these band substances. She tested positive for the band

substances. It's a fact. How it happened the amount that was in her system, all these things

get into a gray area of what's right and wrong and personally I try and stay away from right and

wrong and just keep it centered around the facts which is she 100% tested positive.

Most importantly though I think this is just a really small chapter in Emily Abbott's life. I think

she has a beautiful soul. There's a little thing that happens and it's really important that we do

all of our interviews in person because when you're in that room there's a little thing that goes

off in your brain. It's like the bullshit meter. And in interviewing her and being around her before

and after the interview I didn't have that bullshit meter go off. I thought she was really authentic.

I thought she was really genuine. I thought she was telling the truth. And that's all I can

really hope for is for her to tell her story in the best possible way she can. Nobody asked my opinion

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