There are two issues here. Here's the first:"One month after the mystery pills, Magness was sitting at his cubicle on the Nike campus when documents from the on-campus lab were delivered to Salazar's nearby desk. The lab documents contained years' worth of athletes' blood testing records, which were used to see how runners responded to altitude training meant to boost their levels of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin. According to Magness, Salazar told him to peruse the records and share his observations."About this, several questions. First, in all the years of blood work, Magness found only one problematic entry. Why weren't there many such entries? Second, if there might even be one suspicious entry, why would Salazar encourage Magness, who he would have no prima facie reason to trust, "to persue the records." We should also remember that the telling statement is typed. Who typed it? Salazar? Loren Myhre? Someone else at Nike? Wouldn't this be a pertinent question to ask? If either LM or someone else at Nike, and what's really going on is doping, this would be amazing, no? That at the highest reaches of its lab department, Nike would have been involved in doping.The second issue concerns Salazar's explanation. I would be interested in Salazar's tone. Was he being sarcastic, "Oh you know that Myhre guy, he's just losing it"? Also, might Salazar have been miffed by Magness' tone and the possibility of the suggestion of impropriety, and he didn't want to deal with it? In this regard I would ask how many of us have said sarcastic things, or sent sarcastic e-mails, that if taken literally, especially long after the fact, would be very misleading.Now, although I am cast as a NOP fanboy (an expression that honestly is infantile, in particular as applied to a grown man), I have never, in any thread, every written that NOP is innocent of anything! This applies here as well. I love our sport. I want it to be clean. I would be repelled if NOP is corrupt through and through.Nevertheless, Epstein's article does raise many questions, two of which I indicated in my initial post. But let me add one more here. Epstein writes, "'Maybe four or five days go by,' Goucher says, 'and Alberto brought me [Cytomel] that I didn't have a prescription for.' The pill bottle's label had been ripped off and Salazar had hand-written Cytomel on it. Goucher says she didn't take it, and Adam Goucher added that her endocrinologist later chastised Salazar, telling him to stop playing doctor. Neither Salazar nor Rupp responded to questions about Cytomel." A bit further down the page there is a photograph of a prescription bottle with "Cytomel" handwritten on it. Here are some questions: Is that the bottle Salazar gave to Goucher? Is it some other bottle? Is that Salazar's writing? The implication is that it is the actual bottle, but nowhere is the article is this stated. I'd surely like to know.But again, I really don't know--and I want to underscore KNOW--what Salazar did or did not do. If he did skirt the rules, it would be important to ask by how much. Not all cases of wrongdoing are equally blameworthy.
some dude wrote:
Montesquieu wrote:isn't is bizarre that Salazar was willing to share the relevant records with someone who had been working with him for only two months!? I find that quite hard to believe
Salazar didn't share anything with Magness about that. The guy found it in the test he got from the Nike lab and ran to ask AS about that (which everyone should do in that situaton, because it read clearly that they were giving testosterone to a teenager). And remember AS response: "It's Loren Myhre fault, whe's old and obviously made a misktake wiht the results".