RE: Sad News. Alberto Salazar heart attack

Geez, guys! If you want to criticize malmo about something, I guarantee that there will be plenty of opportunities to do so on other matters. But come on. It's not as if he filed an inaccurate article for the Sunday New York Times here.

I agree that runners should get over the quaint notion that engaging in this sport confers some sort of quasi-immunity from things like heart disease, stroke, and various other infirmities, including the ultimate infirmity of aging.

This is a popular board. Who knows what friends/relatives of Salazar might be reading it? It was a thoughtless, insensitive thing to post.

Apparently it was very important to Malmo that he be the first to break the news of Mr. Salazar's death.

Mel wrote:

This is a popular board. Who knows what friends/relatives of Salazar might be reading it? It was a thoughtless, insensitive thing to post.

Apparently it was very important to Malmo that he be the first to break the news of Mr. Salazar's death.

They don't have the ability to read on though? Or are they unable to call other people since they are friends/relatives and then find out for themselves?

I think it's clear. Gosh I love it when I make cense.

Mel wrote:

This is a popular board. Who knows what friends/relatives of Salazar might be reading it? It was a thoughtless, insensitive thing to post.

Apparently it was very important to Malmo that he be the first to break the news of Mr. Salazar's death.

You're wrong. There is nothing thoughtless or insensitive about my post. I posted reported News and additional specific information that turned out to be wrong, which I corrected immediately.

You didn't do anything wrong. You said "news reports say" and "my people out of Oregon are saying..." That was just what you heard and it ended up being untrue (thank goodness). If anything you were being thoughtful and sensitive to fans, friends, etc. in trying to get the information out as soon as possible.

Reporting hearsay is not "thoughtful."

dark age wrote:

Reporting hearsay is not "thoughtful."

let it go already.

sam w wrote:

let it go already.

No kidding! With all of the immature, know-it-all trolls who post their verbal diarrhea on these boards, you choose THIS topic in an attempt to crucify the author? Malmo was obviously writing out of genuine concern and respect for Alberto & his family. Yes, that actually IS being thoughtful! He didn't sensationalize his post in any way.

Get a life, and go find some REAL trolls to ostracize!

Crazy, I saw the guy running on Thursday

Look at the thread title....did AS have a serious heart attack? Is that not sad news? Sheesh! Thanks for the info, malmo.

What kind of training / running has AS been doing over the last 5-10 years?

Crazy! Get well, AS.

Get Well soon Alberto

This is obviously going to be hard on the Gouchers and Rupp, along with his close friends and family. Get all the way well and very soon, Alberto.

There is no history of heart disease in Alberto's family.

This is sad. Just the other day I was thinking of some of the worse "issues" that could occur in American Track & Field today and I had compiled a list ranging from star athletes failing drug tests to "Alberto Salazar passing away".

If Salazar were to leave us that would leave a tremendous void in the American running community. The momentum we have gained over the past few years would cease. The inspiration of greatness out of Beaverton would be gone. The will to aspire to levels unthought vanished.

I am glad I did not post that list and I am even more pleased that Salazar is recovering and doing well. Best wishes to the Salazar family and let us not take any of us for granted.

Didn't Alberto have asthma? I am not a doctor, just wondering if that could contribute to his heart event.

I have no inside info here, but in someone otherwise healthy and young, the heart problem is usually a rhythm disturbance rather than a true heart attack. Both can be lethal. The main concern after an unstable or nonperfusing rhythm disturbance is residual brain injury left after the event. The patient can have otherwise normal vital signs and other organ function but be left with significant cognitive and motor impairments as a result of lack of effective circulation to the brain.

You are correct but they don't usually put stents in for rhythm disturbances - which seems to imply a heart attack even though the article states a "heart event"

Runningart2004 wrote:

So the question then becomes would years of steroid abuse cause an event to occur now even though he quit eons ago. The same goes for a smoker who stops smoking. Does the damaged nervous and endocrine systems ever really repair themselves after serious steroid abuse?

Last I checked the heart was part of the cardiovascular system, not the nervous or endocrine system.