Mary Decker was coached Alberto Salazar and was a drug cheat why do people keep saying how great she was

She was caught! She was banned! In fact she tried to run during the appeals process and they said if anyone races against her they would be banned too. History will always know Mary Decker as a cheater who got caught!

I observed several of Mary's mid-day track workouts at Hayward in 1996-1997 and in all but one instance, Alberto was supervising the workout. Bill held a watch for the lone workout that Alberto was missing from.

The most striking thing about Mary's metoric middle age resurrection during this time period, was the stunning amount of back acne she suffered from. It reminded me my roid monster high school classmates who bought into the more is better belief when planning out their gear schedule.

I have no idea if Dick Brown, Dick Slaney or the infamous "Dr. S" in South Eugene was supplying her the same "vitamins" that he was providing to many of the Eugene based athletes at that time and frankly, going back to the Athletic West days.

Track and Field is a dirty sport.

Hardly.

Apparently the old timers in “Hail Mary’s“ camp came back to life here to defend their doper

Indeed. Not sure what's most hilarious: people claiming that Decker was clean, or FloJo or Carl Lewis or Moses.

I'm not defending her doping, just stating that as a 13 year old she was the #1 ranked American woman and the world 4th ranked runner. She turned 14 and was still too young to compete in the Olympics. You think she was doping then?

Just because they're good at covering their tracks doesn't mean they were innocent. Salazar tried refuting allegations that were never made in the first article about NOP (e.g. Rupps multiple TUEs).

Idk about you but I don't deny things I or my team are never accused of.

In the arbitration hearing Slaney was given a chance to provide her medical records. At that point her lawyers withdrew her petition.

Game Set Match.

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Not all gold medal winners looked like that, Nobody else looked like her. Don't use the most extreme example tp make your point. People juiced then, they do now. With Decker, not really fair to diminish so many years of greatness, because of mistakes made trying to hang on at the end. Started running so well so early. Wasn't juicing the whole time. People also dislike her because of the fall and reaction. Didn't look good. Not all the stars are wonderful people. But don't forget the early and long-term greatness.

The more time passes the less we are willing to suspend disbelief. I think now, twenty years later more people are willing to accept Decker was prolly decked to the halls. But early on such talk was blasphemy. She beat the Russians and was a hero. Likewise, Fischer, who is running close to a minute faster than Nenow, the American record holder for like 20 years, is regarded as clean. But let's face it, he belongs to the shadiest club in the country, with a teammate getting busted and a coach who responded by saying I don't know what drugs are. But you know, we just want to believe he practices really hard.

You cheat, you lose all credibility! The end. Who are the fools defending this jack Azz.

She cheated. That is all we need to know. She is a FN cheater! Do you understand that? Who are the fools defending this cheater?

You're half right.

Check out the YouTube video from1997 when asked about her doping. She can't even lie well. Check out her body language and her voice inflection. She is so guilty. Who on here keeps defending this drug cheat? Thank you moderators of Letsrun.com for not taking this thread down because it would mean you are defending this cheater. Thank you moderators. To everyone who is defending this cheater, what if she cost you a place in a race. Would you change your mind?

Indeed, she was caught and she was banned.

This doesn't address the question whether the test that "caught" her was a reliable "proxy for doping", and therefore whether the verdict was a correct one.

If these things were wrong then, they should still be considered wrong today.

this is like twoggle and moultonk rolled into one. oh, its rekrunner, there you go.

yes, she was coached by saladbar.

yes, her testosterone levels were high (relative to epitestosterone). and the limits then were 6:1 and are now 4:1

again the us tried to protect their own and failed. they threw all the evidence they could, and failed.

mary decker is a drug cheat.

and she messed up our lovely zola......

I recall writing this many years ago:

"The greatest upset as far as the spectators at the US v USSR meet at Minsk in 1973 were concerned and which brought total shocked silence to the Russian crowd, was the sight of an American 14 year old, pigtailed, 89 pound, named Mary Decker beating their mighty Russian pair, one of whom was an Olympic silver medallist, over 800mts.
I saw the race on our old newsreels at that time in the cinema and was willing to forgive any of Mary’s subsequent transgressions or indiscretions on that one amazing performance alone."

+1

USATF had no shame. Not only did they cover up over 100 positive doping tests, they also tried to let Slaney off the hook despite her ridiculo T/E ratio of over 11 : 1!

From the above link:

LOL

Fortunately IAAF appealed, successfully of course. Drug cheats out!