zxcvzxcv wrote:
Salazar used to have the ambition to train Americans to win gold. Now, he seems to be trying to train Europeans and Africans to win, at least if he doesn't think he has an American medal contender in the event. Even Rupp asked when Salazar was considering Bekele about whether he'd lost any desire for Americans to win. He's got Hassan and Klosterhalfen now and the latter will improve as surely as the former did, maybe even outdoing Houlihan eventually. I do not think the basic speed will ever be there, but the "strength" will be augmented enough to be tough to stick with after a year of this training.
Does anyone have a serious, non stand up routine answer for this? Mo Farah was one thing but why all of the foreign runners in NOP? If you go to the NOP site it still says the following on Al Sal's page:
"In witnessing the decline of American distance running, employed at Nike, Salazar made it his mission to resuscitate a dying presence. Thus, the Oregon Project was born and with it the return of American distance running."