– Excerpt from a passionate rebuttal issued by Steve Magness to Alberto Salazar‘s Open Letter. Magness has risked his entire career by coming forward in the name of clean sport. Kara Goucher also issued a brief statement (more to come after USAs for her). Discuss Magness’ statement on the message board: Steve Magness Issues Passionate Rebuttal To Alberto Salazar’s Open Letter.
MB: Official Day 2 2015 USA Outdoor Live Discussion Thread
100s LRC Tyson Gay’s return to USA’s results in victory in men’s 100 – Tori Bowie win’s first US title in women’s race Afterwards:
*Tyson Talks About Being Listed as Nike and Supplements
LRCW 1500/M Steeple Prelims: Alexa Efraimson Goes Home While Mary Cain Advances; Evan Jager & Donn Cabral Look Great in Steeple The favorites advanced except for Efraimson while Evan Jager talked supplements and what about people who think he might be doping after.
LRC: Nick Symmonds: “I owe Salazar an apology unless some better evidence comes out..this process is great for this sport” Symmonds was impressed with Salazar’s rebuttal, thinks more evidence will come out, and praised the Gouchers and Steve Magness for coming forward and LRC for asking the tough questions.
*Duane Solomon Going to go to “Twiglight Zone” and take 800m final out at WR Pace video
Friday Live Talk: *1500 Semis: Order is restored. Mary Cain is in!! Alexa Efraimson is out!! Videos with both.
*800 Semis: Shocker in men’s race: Order is restored. Nick Symmonds is in!!! Boris Borian is out!!
*Women’s 800 Final is Gonna be unreal In heat 2, Wilson, Price, Vessey and Montano within .09 of each other and that was just one heat.
*Evan Jager Addresses People Who May Think He’s on Drugs and His Supplement Usage
*Dan Huling Talks About His Allergies and Getting an Inhaler
LRC In A Battle Of American Record Holders, Molly Huddle Sprints Away From Shalane Flanagan To Win US 10,000 Title; Emily Infeld Takes 3rd Full recap with video interviews and analysis.
*Oregonian: Molly Huddle Defeats Shalane Flanagan For U.S. 10,000-Meter Title, Passing Career “Milestone”
*MB: What!!! Molly Huddle is scratching the 5k!!!??? –
Updated LRC Galen Rupp Wins His 7th Straight US 10,000 Crown; Ben True 2nd; Hassan Mead Third 7 in a row is amazing.
*Tim Layden Of SI With A Tremendous Piece On Galen Rupp/Alberto Salazar It opens like this: “Things were much the same Thursday night, yet things were also different, in such a way that they can never be made entirely whole again.” Plus he reveals Mo Farah is on asthma medication.
*Oregonian: Allegations? What Allegations? Galen Rupp Runs Away With The 10,000 At The USATF Championships
*Chris Chavez: No One Booed Rupp, But Rupp’s Battle Not Over
*Hayward Field Fans React To Allegations Against Galen Rupp
*MB: Galen Rupp is a mother F*&(*&iXXX Bada$$ !!! congrats!
LRC800 Prelims: Charles Jock & Brandon Johnson Go Home As The Rest Of The Favorites Advance
LRC M 1,500/W Steeple: Half Of The Men’s 1,500 Final Are Oregon Ducks + Andrews & Wheating Advance
OTB: *Leah O’Connor Runs Her Last Race For MSU And Signs With adidas (Video Interview)
*Colleen Quigley Talks About Turning Pro With Bowerman Track Club And Her Dad Driving Her Stuff From Florida
Five Things On ESPN’s Radar At USATF Outdoor ChampionshipsBen Blankenship and Boris Berian make the cut.
More Day 1 On The Boards
Complete Coverage In Our 2015 USA Outdoor Special Section
2nd Former Nike Oregon Project Massage Therapist Comes Forward And Admits He Had Grave Concerns About Group – Went To USADA In 2012 – Wants To See Feds Interview Everyone In Group Under Oath Al Kupczak found it odd that Alberto Salazar always traveled with Androgel and would personally massage Rupp late at night. He also says he 100% trusts the testimony of Kara Goucher and Steve Magness.
*2nd Article: Kupczak: “The AndroGel was so prevalent”
*MB: 2nd Former Nike Oregon Project Massage Therapist Comes Forward And Admits He Had Grave Concerns – Went To USADA In 2012
History has shown that if you cheat in a marathon and don't run the full distance, you will be caught by the LetsRun.com nation. The same rule applies - even if you attempt the same feat in an internationally broadcast 1,500-meter race.
Excellent Recap: BBC’s Mark Daly Responds To Salazar’s Open Letter And Recaps Where Things Stand Now – What Questions Remain? This is an excellent recap by the man who did the investigation into doping and Salazar for the BBC. He suggests Alex Salazar could face a ban.
Day 2: Daily Relay Day 2 Preview: What2Watch Friday At The USATF Championships
Absurd: Bureaucrats Strike Again: Athletics Canada Won’t Send 1:59 Runner Fiona Benson To Pan-Ams As She Didn’t Know She Needed To Declare For The Team She didn’t know as until a few weeks ago she had a 2:08 PR. Stupidity on Athletics Canada’s part.
LRC Steve Magness Issues Passionate Rebuttal To Alberto Salazar’s Open Letter: “(Salazar’s) statements actually confirm what I witnessed and what I told to the BBC/ProPublica reporters in their documentary last month.” Magness reveals that Salazar trusted his coaching ability so much that he was given complete control of the team for 10 days just weeks before the 2012 Olympic Trials. He also says that he knew he’d be attacked by Salazar and have his career put in jeopardy if he came forward but but it’s something he had to do so he can “walk away with a clean conscience.” Magness: “I thank the others who have showed incredible courage and determination in taking a stance for clean sport. While it is incredibly intimidating and no doubt will result in your reputation being attacked, at least you can walk away with a clean conscience.”
LRC Galen Rupp Discusses Nike Oregon Project Doping Allegations With The Media Rupp stuck to his talking point and reiterated he stood by Alberto’s response.
OTB/Video: *Ben True Discusses Nike Oregon Project Doping Allegations, 2nd Place Finish, And What Supplements He Is On
*Chris Derrick Reveals What Supplements He Takes
*Chris Derrick: “We are not sociopaths, we have values and we have things we believe in”
LRC Justin Gatlin Still Doesn’t Want To Answer Our Or Any Drug Questions But Christian Taylordid and talked about what supplements he’s on.
A Day Earlier: Convicted Doper Dennis Mitchell Is Now The Paid Head USA Relays Coach Hired By USATF National Office Without Input Of USATF High Performance Committee
Alberto Responds To Doping Allegations With 12,000-Word Open Letter – “I will never permit doping.”Salazar’s epic response demands a retraction and among other things claims Steve Magness was fired and that Kara Goucher left after the group after Salazar called out her husband Adam for an “insulting rant.” Salazar does admit to having doped his own son with testosterone, but says it was done to make sure the group wouldn’t be sabotaged and showed evidence that he has a prescription for Androgel as he has hypogonadism.
*MB: ALBERTO RELEASES STATEMENT
ProPublica Responds To Salazar Within Hours With New Allegations After Salazar’s manifesto came out, another ex-Nike employee came forward and says he witnessed Salazar “going crazy” after he failed to get Galen Rupp an IV drip in 2010. Plus pro athlete Jackie Areson came forward on record and says Salazar “distributed prescription painkillers ‘like it was candy'” and that she “never let [Salazar] massage me because I knew he had the testosterone cream and didn’t trust him.”
*MB: ProPublica Responds to Alberto Salazar’s Response – “Alberto Salazar Disputes Allegations – Some of Which Were Never Made”
2 Hours Before Alberto’s Response Went Live:AP: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Has Launched A Formal Investigation Of The Nike Oregon ProjectMore than a dozen witnesses have already been interviewed.
USATF has quietly hired convicted doper Dennis Mitchell to lead the USA Relays program. Sadly, they are afraid to take ownership of the decision and have Dennis and Max Siegel discuss why Dennis is the best man to lead Team USA or have Dennis publicly account for his doping past.
Alberto and Galen were notably absent but the stars were out in full force at the Portland Track Festival with Shannon Rowbury, Steve Magness, the Gouchers, Alan Webb, Kevin Hanson, Desi Davila, Mark Wetmore, Shalane Flanagan, Evan Jager, Chris Solinsky, and many more in attendance. Employee 1.0 is back to recount the surreal scene in light of the Nike Oregon Project Doping investigation.
LRC Real Reviews by Real Runners: A Better Running Shoe Site is Here Today the shoe buying process gets better with the beta release of the LetsRun.com Better Running Shoe site. See what shoes runners just like you are running in and which they like best. Want to see what shoes 6 foot 150 lb runners rate the best? You can do that. Want to see the top shoes for pronators training for a marathon? You can do that too. Click here to on the first step to a better running shoe
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
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