Kara Goucher unloads on Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp and the NOP - "Justice is coming."

The reason why athletes have thyroid problems is mostly due to overconsumption of protein derived from animal sources. That means they eat all these hormones the animals are treated with and also the antibiotics. Kara could have easily continued to perform on highest levels without any medication as suggested by Salazar if she had eaten a well balanced PLANT BASED diet.

But I guess that steak was too tasty? Payback's a bitch.

two weeks later AR is yours!!! wrote:

Well-trained athletes mean "well trained" not "not well trained".

This is circular logic. What's a well trained athlete? That one because they are fast. Why are they fast? Because they are well trained.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

two weeks later AR is yours!!! wrote:

Well-trained athletes mean "well trained" not "not well trained".

This is circular logic. What's a well trained athlete? That one because they are fast. Why are they fast? Because they are well trained.

LOL ... you have no clue what a "well-trained" athlete means.

i am a 70 year old runner. not great but ok, a 2:32:12 marathon in my late 30s. i love running as a way of life but of course find it harder and harder. i am saddened by the comments here as i don't understand what evidence there is against NOP and Rupp. My understanding is that a coach now at Houston saw a medical prescription for something that sounded like testosterone for a 14 year old Rupp. he has no actual evidence and in fact Salazaar has given a rebuttal that makes equal sense. I have not hear one word out of Goucher that is evidence of anything but slander. What is the evidence? I think she has other issues as the timing of her comments on Saturday show a high degree of bitterness. What has she said can be examined? She spouts generalizations like a politician that cannot be examined as there are no specifics.

Meanwhile, people keep cutting down a runner who is by far the only really competitive male athelete we have in the country at 5k and 10k (not knocking others but the difference between a fast time and winning a world class 5k is day and night). Rupp is close but maybe too old for the 5k. We should thank god we have such a runner in the US who has never failed a drug test. We may have to wait 20-40 years to get another. He ran a wonderful marathon in rough conditions and instead of credit has to sit by for more character assassination.

To think that NOP does not walk a fine line on the side of legitimacy in training is naive. NOP runners are competing against athlete's whose coaches and trains do exactly the same thing world wide. It is either legitimate or it is not. Period.

Except doping and USATF/IAAF impartial treatment of positives since the introduction of EPO changed everything.

Dope doesn't increase an athlete's ceiling, it helps them approach it better/faster.

LOL ... you have no clue what a "well-trained" athlete means.

Hi Adam!

It would probably be a good idea to add the 'auto generated' label so it's clear. That said, I'm consistently stunned that people don't understand what that means by this point, and how often they make threads complaining about the Super Hot on the front page.

No need to add that text. A large number of people reading a post make it hot.

He is among us wrote:

LOL ... you have no clue what a "well-trained" athlete means.

Hi Adam!

Wrong, I am Alberto's son.

/egan Runner wrote:

The reason why athletes have thyroid problems is mostly due to overconsumption of protein derived from animal sources. That means they eat all these hormones the animals are treated with and also the antibiotics. Kara could have easily continued to perform on highest levels without any medication as suggested by Salazar if she had eaten a well balanced PLANT BASED diet.

But I guess that steak was too tasty? Payback's a bitch.

ZERO scientific evidence about anything you said, way to know nothing yet speak like you do

JAXDUKE wrote:

I seem to recall part of the Goucher's , alleged,motivation on coming forward with doping allegations was to protect the integrity of the sport for future generations . Kara Goucher played the I'am doing this for my kid (Cole )

card repeatedly. I would like to pose a question to Mrs. Goucher , the mom.

Is your most recent ,vulgarity laced interview , something you would like your

child to view - or for that matter any young aspiring distance runners?

i'm supposed to be offended by "naughty" words? or doping/cheating?

USADA and WADA are testing NOP, not USATF. I have not heard any rumors that either USADA or WADA are corrupt

"She spouts generalizations"

She's not the only one:

"NOP runners are competing against athlete's whose coaches and trains do exactly the same thing world wide"

Oh really?

ronkitaus@yahoo.com wrote:

It is either legitimate or it is not. Period.

Exactly, unfortunately neither you or anyone else on this board knows whether or not it is ligit. Which is why we're awaiting the outcome of the investigation, in the mean time we're all, including you, generalizing and speculating.

Thanks for proving the demographic?

Here is a thought I had to today.

Is it safe to assume that if Rupp was doping before the whole scandal broke, they would pretty much have to stop under the heightened scrutiny? That would seem reasonable. They have for sure are testing more out of competition etc.

Yet, his World championship time was comparable given the heat/humidity.

His marathon performance seemed quite decent.

So I would posit if he can achieve the same levels of performance now he mostly likely wasn't doing anything that would have gotten a ban.

Lets all move on , huh? wrote:

Here is a thought I had to today.

Is it safe to assume that if Rupp was doping before the whole scandal broke, they would pretty much have to stop under the heightened scrutiny? That would seem reasonable.

There is a difference between direct doping and the gray zone. If the USADA cannot test for the micro-levels someone is using, or doesn't know about something new (like xenon gas), then the USADA has to resort to other techniques to catch a gray-zone-doper. Other techniques (testimonies) is how Armstrong was brought down. He was not brought down by direct testing.

ronkitaus@yahoo.com wrote:

We should thank god we have such a runner in the US who has never failed a drug test.

We do, our God goes by the name of Alberto.

duh gray zone wrote:

Other techniques (testimonies) is how Armstrong was brought down. He was not brought down by direct testing.

Which brings us back to Kara as far as NOP/Rupp/Salazar/etc are concerned.

Nicely put.