SDSU Aztec wrote:
Salazar took himself to Houston before the 1984 Olympic Marathon and it didn't do him much good. The holes in his singlet did take a minute off his time, though. If his brilliant ice hat idea had occurred to him then, he would have medaled.
All of Alberto's LA preparations were just the final nail in the coffin for his career that had already been spinning around the toilet bowel for a while.
In all honesty, when I heard about Klecker's heat training shenanigans I thought it was a bit much. You either stay in Boulder and play the altitude card or you go back home to Minnesota or somewhere and try to adapt to the conditions a bit. I think the second choice would have probably been better, it's not like you can't train hard and improve fitness at sea level. Probably ended up cooking his goose slightly with the double stimulus of altitude and all the heat stuff. A good run for him would have been top ten, so this was really just a C performance. Now go find a couple races in Europe and break 13 and 3:35.