ALBERTO SALAZAR BANNED FROM ATHLETICS FOR FOUR YEARS FOR DOPING VIOLATIONS

neva tested wrote:

Jgt11 wrote:

No athletes tested positive. They can't prove who was doping or not

Lance never tested positive.

Actually he did a couple of times but it was covered up. Google is your friend.

Athletes don't get banned for circumstantial evidence. If that were true all of Aden's athletes would be serving a ban now after he was caught with EPO loaded syringes in his hotel room. Athletes have to test positive, avoid tests 3 times in a year or have an abnormal value on the their biological passport to get banned.

Brianruns10 wrote:

How does this NOT take down Rupp too? The pair were practically joined at the hip. Could his 2020 hopes be in danger, or possibly even his medal from 2016?

He will be a no show at Chicago. Farah will claim some kind of injury.

God I hate professional sports.

I'm pretty much done with pro track.

enjoy it, boys. I'll be out training and watching Battlebots or something.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

I predict that he'll coach again after the 4 years.

Alberto may not survive this. He has had health problems. This cannot help.

Also. Amazed this wasn’t leaked.

Hey Al....

All the testing on your kids worth it now?

Lol. All of your accomplishments are WORTHLESS

Lance the tool wrote:

neva tested wrote:

Lance never tested positive.

Actually he did a couple of times but it was covered up. Google is your friend.

Try a real testing positive. Not something made up by your friends trolling on Google.

You do not have to look Far. Sifan Hassan, average and good atheletes joins Salazar she becomes amazing, Prs in all the distances from 1500 to the half marathon. Mo Fara, average and good athelte joins Salazar he becomes amazing and Prs in all the distances from 1500 to the Marathon. That is no brainer!! Salazar is guilty and his athletes are........

CGeorgeRun wrote:

Also. Amazed this wasn’t leaked.

This may have been leaked. The poster who said Rupp was not running Chicago may have known this and leaked it that way.

yhgttbnbjkooijj wrote:

If there are detailed records of injections and doses and timeframes, wouldn't that be enough to suspend someone or take a medal back?

Isn't that what got Marion?

Yes. It is now officially confirmed that illegal injections were given. From the leaked doc, we know this included Ritz and Rupp, among others, around 2011/12. So at minimum those guys should get banned for 2012 - 2013...

Jama Aden and every single one of his athletes are dirty. Since SaladBar is now guilty, then you have to be stupid to believe that he wouldn’t at least give his best athletes something to cheat with. Literally everyone should be judged to be a cheater.

At this point, distance running is right at the level of Lance Armstrong cycling.

FINALLY! Sleazy Sal gets what he deserves! NOP lovers go home DEVASTATED!

Go whistleblowers wrote:

Thank you to all the whistleblowers who care about cleaning up the sport (e.g. Magness, the Gouchers, etc.). Your efforts are not in vain!

Listening to his pod on marathon talk, my guess is that he did it most out of self preservation instincts. Was tough in the short term but long term was he smart thing for him to do.

chicago . . . wrote:

He will be a no show at Chicago. Farah will claim some kind of injury.

It's flu season. They'll both come down with a bad case of the flu for a few weeks until this all blows over.

What a sad day for the sport. Salazar did everything he could to give his athletes a chance at competing with the East African dopers, but he stepped a little too far over the line and got burned. Now we have a bunch of Americans rejoicing at the fall of their best coach while the Africans continue to dope with impunity. NOP athletes received over-limit L-carnitine infusions, so who cares that EPO is being used full throttle in Ethiopia and Uganda? Truly a disgusting turn of events.

Big Baller wrote:

This is nuts. Confirms what everyone has been saying for years. Hopefully Brazier Murphy and Engels aren't involved but this seems to be before they joined the group

If you're a clean athlete you would never have associated with a guy like Salazar in the past few years or you or very stupid. Everyone in the know or even on the fringe of the elite schene now or when Salazar was at his peak as an athlete knew things were going on. Maybe 5 years ago someone a little naive could say the things that surrounded Alberto were just that. But in the past few years, there has been so many red flags they were impossible to ignore.

This is fantastic news. Sick of people saying there's nothing wrong with being coached by Salazar since he hasn't received a ban. Even people with the knowledge of these details were defending NOP for years. It doesn't matter whether they were caught or received a ban. If you were willing to turn a blind eye to this information you're a morally bankrupt person. How can someone say they don't know for sure when it is known that he smuggled testosterone? This is just the stuff they got away with. Nike should remove Alberto's name from that facility they built if they haven't already. Mo and Galen? Just as dirty looking as Dibaba and now there is not excuse for defending them. But even now we have people still pointing the finger at other groups.

Chobits wrote:

Oh dear.

But........ Hassan?!

Wild wild stuff.

Of course, the big dawgs (Kenya and Ethiopia) remain mostly unscathed.

Has a Saladbar athlete ever actually tested positive?

Mary Decker tested positive for testosterone. She claimed it was her birth control meds, lol.