Breaking: Shalane and Meb react to Galen Rupp's Chicago Win

Exactly. If you look at their pedirgrees, whose performances by far are more suspicious? The past 30 years of running would say it's Jager all the way. White guys don't need to dope to run 2:09. They definitely need to dope to medal at steeple.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

analogy left wanting wrote:

Do people here really believe that Jager and Rupp are similar cases? That’s how you try to deflect?

They are both on the "highly likely" list, why's it not similar?

Because of the coach's history, because of the investigation by USADA, because of the concerns voiced by many former associates...because none of those are present in both cases? One factor being the same doesn't make all the factors the same. I'm not suspicious of Rupp because his name is on a list, I'm suspicious due to a myriad of other issues. I imagine the pros and I are not alone in that.

flat head, where the f*ck have you been?

i find it really hard to believe you so you must be trollin

mary slaney

al sal himself doing illegal and grey area stuff on himself back in the day

rupps androgel rub downs with happy endings in hs

telling rupp to take thyroid meds that were not his

mailing rupp thyroid meds in a cut out in a book

rupps testosterone regiment print off from hs!

al sal rubbing androgel on his son, then having his son tested to see if he would fail a PED test

ritz saying sal was sleazy and shady and told him to take things that he didnt need to take cause it would make him faster

kara saying the same thing, and giving hints that they prob had an affair

adam goucher leaving cause of hush hush things, most likely being told to take illegal and or grey area stuff for the sole purpose of an enhancement

cain started running bad then leaving when all this was coming to head

cam levins leaving when all this was coming to head

centro with adult acne and bacne

webb leaving

Mo going from top ten guy to invincible once joining al

mo missing tests, cant hear door bells, training with aden and his crew, lying about being associated with al sal when the heat came (like come on if mo is trying to distance himself from sal, then you know the walls are coming in)

being tip touching buddies with BALCO and lance armstrong, yeah those turned out to be spicey

Rohatinsky says shady and illegal things happened when he was there

magness claims to have seen print offs of rupps PED use and medical reports

Treniere Moser, was no one then got good then fell off the map once the heat came on sal and NOP

macro dosing vit D, not illegal but why would anyone need to put a needle in their body when completely healthy and inject huge dosages of vit D unless to gain some sort of advantage or to mask something

macro dosing L-carnitine, again some thing, but then it gets more shady as the docs claim to not remember how much they injected, then once there is a limit they claim they only injected the maximum amount. again why would a healthy world class athlete inject things into their body and HUGE dosages, unless to gain unfair advantage, mask PEDs or to maximize micro dosages of PEDs

having dr brown give thyroid meds to athletes who didnt need it, falsifying medical reports, lying to authorities, handing out hypothyroidism meds to runners at an alarming rate....all for the cause of athletic enhancement.

John Stiner, who worked as a massage therapist for Oregon Project athletes at Park City, Utah, in 2008, told the Daily Mail that he’d seen at least 25 unused hypodermic needles in a bag at the training camp along with bottles of testosterone boosters. Stiner claimed Salazar told him to keep some of the materials refrigerated and return them to him in Oregon.

now if you fan boys would actually do some research and you two brojos, you will see that thyroid meds, L-carnitine and Vit D, all have vital roles in the bodies ability to create, absorb, and maintain HGH and I-GF1. if one was micro dosing with HGH and I-GF1 and macro dosing with thyroid meds, vit D and L-carnitine, those things would help maximize the benefits of the micro dosing...."but but but they never had a positive test" yeah and lance never did either.

oh and through all of this Rupp acts like a scared cat and says very little.

but yeah with all of that and im sure way more you can google, these athletes are just bitter and jealous lol

Shalane and Meb are on the inside. They associate with a bunch of professionals, agents, race directors, etc. People talk behind closed doors. When a lot of people seem to be saying the same things it's very difficult to publicly praise those people that are getting torn apart by those in the inner circle.

It's not that hard to understand what's going on. NOP is not trusted by anyone in the industry, but most everyone does their best to be politically correct while also communicating they don't support them.

So tell me again about the evidence that Hasay is doping, Shalene? Are you and Kara keeping that secret for some reason?

Rupp is a whole different story and it's a fair question, but Hasay?

Thought Shalene was better than this.

analogy left wanting wrote:

Because of the coach's history, because of the investigation by USADA, because of the concerns voiced by many former associates...because none of those are present in both cases? One factor being the same doesn't make all the factors the same. I'm not suspicious of Rupp because his name is on a list, I'm suspicious due to a myriad of other issues. I imagine the pros and I are not alone in that.

I get what you're saying and agree to an extent, but just want to point out that we now know that some in Schumacher's group have also been using thyroid meds. Not a smoking gun and technically legal, but Salazar does not have a monopoly on the grey zone.

There’s much more to the cloud around Salazar than thyroid meds from Dr Brown and a list from Fancy Bears.

Rumors can fly around small communities, and people can often get wrongly identified as someone perpetrating evil. Just ask those that lived in Salem, MA in 1692! Sorry gang - I'm not ready to burn 'em at the stake of public opinion.

Shalane's value to Nike is at an end. One thing about the Shoe business, is you move on to the next thing without emotion. The next thing is Jordan . Nike and NOP are admired by more people than detractors , just not on this site. After NY marathon , I can see Shalane wearing Hoka's .

Bad marathon in NY for Shalane and I can see LannyC's prediction come true. Nike will show favor towards Jordan after that. She now is a big super star and Nike now knows this. I think she deserves it because she is such a decent young woman. If Paula and Joan know it, Nike definitely knows it.

You do realize that both Paula and Joannie have "lifetime contracts" with Nike?

They are part of the Marketting department with Nike and will be forever.

Their comments are no different than Nike producing a commercial that says WE ARE PROUD OF JORDAN.

what Jordan are we talking about? cause that just gave me an idea

a commercial with Hasay and Michael, and Michael says

"Ummmm ever heard of Jordan Hasay"

then shows her run past him in Jordan inspired marathon shoes...BOOOOOM from the ghetto to the burbs people will buy those!

Wow "Top of the Mtn", thanks for educating us. Now we will all know that Joan and Paula are just big fat paid liars. They can't judge character, they can't judge talent and they also have no idea that a young athlete is clean.

Whereas your contribution was the great insight that Jordan is early in her career and Shalane is late in her career. Brilliant stuff.

and what is your contribution?

read the whole post

Americans are good at eating their own. Rupp has been a true professional, and respectful towards other American runners, and those he competes against. Without coaches like AlSal, American running would be nowhere, and this forum would be whining like babies about why the US sucks so much at running. It's a fu@#$%-up world in athletics, and until chages are made at the top, this is how it gets done. Meb and Shalane should stfu.

ponds in the midwest wrote:

Rupp ran 13:37 in high school.

I think this argument often works, but probably not in a case like this, when you have a lab report showing that Salazar already had him on testosterone when he was in high school.

(I know, I know . . . Salazar says it was a typo.)

Huapango wrote:

Americans are good at eating their own. Rupp has been a true professional, and respectful towards other American runners, and those he competes against. Without coaches like AlSal, American running would be nowhere, and this forum would be whining like babies about why the US sucks so much at running. It's a fu@#$%-up world in athletics, and until chages are made at the top, this is how it gets done. Meb and Shalane should stfu.

Meb and Shalane have had great careers and I'm glad they answer questions posed of them honestly instead of giving robotic fluff responses.