 This was incorrectly attributed to menstruation.. Eileen McNamara's "Boston Globe" article that said she "bled all the way from Hopkinton to Boston" was subject to mass criticism.At the 1996 Olympic Games, she dropped out of the marathon after 22 miles, having led earlier in the race.In 1998, an out-of-competition drug test found Pippig had an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone, and the German Athletics Federation attempted to ban her for two years.