Salazar received a request from coaching from Bekele brothers?

Meant to say request for* coaching. Typo

There are three available medals per men's event and Farah is taking gold or silver and Rupp is not wanting to be out of the medals entirely with Bekele back at full strength or Tariku at that level.

Rupp had a similar response when Salazar mentioned bringing Farah into the group. Salazar said it would be good for him to have a training partner like that. I don't think Rupp would have performed as well as he did without Farah in his group. Not only was he a valuable training partner but Rupp said that during the London 10,000 he began to lose his cool a bit but Farah calmed him down and told him to save it for when it the end when it mattered.

Bringing Farah in was enough, I see no reason to bring in even more competition that could knock Rupp out of contention for medals.

What I want to know is what changed in the Bekele brothers' camp? Didn't their agent or coach afterwards say something like, "Science won the race" (suggesting PEDs)? If they think it was all PED then they could just go get some on their own. What makes them all of a sudden think it was just good coaching?

What happened to the rumor that Canova was coaching Bekele?

Wasn't that written on that American Distance project running site (or whatever it's called)?

I would welcome the chance to train with the brothers Bekele.

Pretty sure they meant science as in the Alter-G, medical attention, etc. and all the fancy stuff they have at their disposal on the Nike campus.

I was thinking along the lines of technology too, but lots of posts on this site suggest that many, if not most members here interpreted it as PEDs.

That's great! The Bekele brothers are finally going to receive treatment for their thyroid problems. Alberto Salazar would be a monster if he denied them the opportunity to have this serious medical condition corrected.

Who cares about Kenenisa? he is a has-been. He is done. Unless he increases the hgh/epo dosages

This is an old, old story and the quotes are somewhat taken out of context.

Rupp, like Centrowitz, is incredibly competitive. And he was initially concerned about having Mo come and train -- and Salazar made the proper case that having someone of his ability and better would be good as a training partner.

Once Mo and Rupp met, they quickly became great friends, sharing an rabid interest in UK Soccer/Football and video games.

If memory serves the Bekele's query came before the Olympics, probably a year or so, after Mo had been with Alberto 9 months or so.

And Rupp right pointed out, what he pointed out, because he is competitive.

And Salazar agreed with him.

The mission of TOP was and is to help USA athletes reach the level of the African elites.

Alberto certainly could have enhanced his ego and fame by coaching the Bekele's...or any on the come elite Africans.

A better question, is why hasn't Alberto taken on more USA athletes?

Schumacher seems to be able to handle a larger group.

Alberto seems to prefer having a smaller tight knit group that he can focus on.

First of all, I think that is kind of an old story.

Second of all, my recollection of an article I read is that Salazar was thinking of bringing in multiple East Africans to train with Rupp. From the beginning Rupp was excited about bringing in some veteran distance runner better than himself. At the time I don't think he even knew Farah. He just thought Salazar's idea was a little overboard. I don't think even Salazar himself was sold on his own idea.

Ryan, yeah it is an old story.

As I recall, first was the request by UK Athletics that Salazar take on Farah leading up to 2012.

It was after that that Salazar conveyed the Bekele request to Rupp and Rupp gave his reply.

This is all in an article somewhere that came out around the Olympics.

A Duck wrote:

And Rupp right pointed out, what he pointed out, because he is competitive.

Sounds like pretty much the definition of ANTI competitive

A Duck wrote:

A better question, is why hasn't Alberto taken on more USA athletes?

Schumacher seems to be able to handle a larger group.

Alberto seems to prefer having a smaller tight knit group that he can focus on.

That's actually the easiest question not the better question. Salazar has coached more US athletes than most thought he would at this point in time. Salazar said he would not take in anymore athletes several years ago and then did the opposite. He's obviously more optimistic about coaching/stress than when he almost died.

Viva la Raza wrote:

Who ever said Mexican's don't know anything is very mistaken. Salazar is oen of the smartest Mexicans around.

moron

The Waterboy wrote:

Also, with all of Salazar's fancy equipment etc, I think it would be safe to say that Kenenisa's talent combined with that could easily see him run world records on the track again.

He is 30 years old. He is not going to set any more world records on the track. Maybe in the half marathon and marathon on the road, but not on the track.

Awesome Al wrote:

Alberto Salazar is Mexican

moron

Awesome Al wrote:

That proves Alberto is one of the smartest Mexicans around.

Except that he's a Cuban-American.

Others claim he is from CUBA