Hey, fam, welcome to rest day, free trails occasional news show talking about the latest

happenings in trail running, the best sport in the world, though

this is a bit of an emergency episode under less than pleasant circumstances.

Today we're talking about the devastating news that broke this week, Solomon Athlete and

Trail Runner of the Year frontrunner, Sears and All an OCC champion. Joylene Chapnano received a two-year suspension

from competition, a positive drug test after her victory at Sierra's and all. Joylene apparently

admitted to receiving an injection of triumcinolone astinide, a corticosteroid banned in competition by WADA.

Joeline claims that the injection was to reduce pain and inflammation from a knee injury

before Ceres and all.

This was obviously a bombshell awful piece of news that deserved a long-form, nuanced

conversation.

Corinne is very knowledgeable about anti-doping subject matter,

and I do my best to pull my weight and add some context

for what this moment means for the sport.

We talk about the facts of the case,

the substance itself, trium sin alone astinide,

the Milamani runners, and their coach Julian

Lyon, who've become central figures in the story. We talk about maybe why this happened,

what it means for Joeline, Solomon, the Milamani team, and for the sport in general. And then at the

end of the show, we switch gears and talk about some happier news,

that being Francesco Poop, be accepting his golden ticket to Western States, where he will be making

a much anticipated 100-mile debut in 26. And speaking of Francesco, he wrote a great piece on

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