TOKYO (AP) — American distance runner Shelby Houlihan knows some people will see her fourth-place finish at the world championships in the first big-time race since her “Burrito Ban” and wonder if it’s legit.

She doesn’t much care about them.

“I surround myself with people who love me and support me, and that’s way louder than anything the haters would say,” Houlihan said. “It’s nice to stick it to them every once in a while.”

The 32-year-old Houlihan, who missed four years and two Olympics as the result of a much-debated ban for what she said was eating a drug-tainted burrito , finished one spot out of the medals Saturday in the 5,000 meters, one of the most-stacked races on the program.

She ran in the front for most of the first 12 laps of the 12.5-lap race — not the game plan she

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