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Originally Posted by Jerm
This guy is a habitual offender and they're moving a card for him...Tom Lawlor got suspended for 17 picograms (which is less than the rumored amount Jones got caught on) for TWO YEARS as a first time offender.
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It wasn't actually the banned substance that he popped for or still had in his system. It is a metabolite which is left over after the substance is out of your system. The metabolite supposedly does nothing for you, its only evidence you took the steroid sometime in the past.
Looking at this in the most charitable light for USADA possible (which is questionable), in 2017 he was popped because the metabolite shouldn't have been there at all. In 2018, they are choosing to believe that the metabolite is old, but they have no proof of that.
It is more likely that it was from a steroid ingestion in 2018.