ESPN.co.uk says Alberto Salazar was panicked about drug testers

Before this thread is unfairly deleted, I'll chime in with my two scents:

Anybody who prescribes asthma medication to athletes who do not have asthma, is cheating!

Any athlete who takes asthma medication but does not have asthma is cheating.

wah wah wah everybody is cheating.

Get over it.

There is a specific test (actually a couple) that an athlete has to undergo in order to use inhaled asthma meds in the Olympics.

Drug Test Evasion is an Art and not a Science. Alberto and his lab techs have a enormous responsibility maintaining levels beneath the curve. No wonder Alberto panicked. Just be glad Nike has Alberto living in the middle of nowhere not frequented by leading academia and drug testers.

So let me get this straight, the fact that Alberto was panicking about the possibility of Mo MISSING a drug test means that something fishy is going on? If you want to accuse someone of doping then go ahead, but at least think of some reasoning that isn't f&^king stupid. Reminds me of the guy who said Natalya Antyukh must be doping because she's "only been hurdling for three years".

Alberto said this in an interview he knew was going to be published in a prominent place and it makes them look clean. It's something I could see a dirty coach saying. But it's also something I could see a clean coach saying sincerely.

When dealing with doping speculation, I think we should all default to giving everyone the benefit of the doubt until something happens to take that doubt away. I think this because the alternative is being suspicious of everyone at all times. When you go down that road it usually ends up in one of two places: 1)disillusionment to the point of not being interested in running anymore and 2)acceptance to the point of thinking that doping isn't such a bad thing and should be allowed.

It will be especially fishy if the tests from the game come back negative.

He was in London at the Olys when he said that. 100o's of Ph.D experts roaming around the place with blood test tubes and oscilloscopes would scare anyone. So don't blame the guy. If he lived in L.A. that would be the everyday drill. But in Portland he can evade that ridiculousness until he travels to Worlds or Olys. Yea!

And we all know why there are so many testers roaming around LA (that would be the sportsman's drug capital of the world). When you go fishing, you go to where you know there are fish to catch...and quite a few LA athletes have been caught in the net.

You guys are truly not playing with a full deck.

This board would LIGHT UP if Farah missed a doping control.

Yet, when his coach wants to ensure that he doesn't, the letsrun idiots think THAT means he's doping?

Honestly, some of your are absolutely pathetic and are an absolute disgrace to athletics. I am truly ashamed that I may be inadvertently associated with some of you through the sport on its own.

wasn't this posted a while back?

like over the summer or something?

QTPi wrote:

wasn't this posted a while back?

like over the summer or something?

Yeah it was discussed back in July right at the start of the Olympics:

ooooo quick Werejo delete this one - far too much freedom of speech in this one. Not like Saladbar is pumping his boys with pseudoephedrine or anything...

We know L.A. is where most pros and medal winners are from so of course the WADA, USADA, NFL, MLB, ... testers are stationed permanently in LA, OC, SD, SB, and Riverside counties. UCLA is the leading drug detection lab in the world. It was UCLA scientists that busted Balco. If you are doping you have to be a complete idiot to live or train in L.A. or Nor Cal too for that matter. Stanford and UCSF have incredible facilities to catch the cheaters. Cheating coaches don't live in L.A. because they know they are being stalked 24 hours a day with FBI wiretaps, paparrazi with $100,000 NASA lenses, and reporters from L'Equippe, BBC, AL Jazzeera, AP, ...

I hear you. There is more foreign press in Los Angeles than in New York and Washington, D.C. combined. Every L.A. Dodgers and L.A. Angels game has an equivalent World Series press corps since so many of the Angels, Dodgers and vistiing team players are from the local area, thus every little Mini Mall Gazette has an assigned reporter and photographer at the ball park.

Let me point out that another one of Salazar's athletes, Dathan Ritzenhein, was tested 16 (!) times by USADA in 2012, more than ANY other track and field athlete.Rupp was tested 11 times.

http://www.usada.org/athlete-test-history

This is testing by USADA only and probably doesn't include testing done at the Olympics and other European meets.

nikeman wrote:

Let me point out that another one of Salazar's athletes, Dathan Ritzenhein, was tested 16 (!) times by USADA in 2012, more than ANY other track and field athlete.Rupp was tested 11 times.

http://www.usada.org/athlete-test-history

This is testing by USADA only and probably doesn't include testing done at the Olympics and other European meets.

USADA and other doping organizations works in the way that they test people with abnormal blood profiles or hormone profiles much more than normal.

If your sample is abnormal, but not enough to meet the criteria for a positive doping test then you will be put on a suspicious list and will be tested more often in the future.

Some years ago the media got hold of such a list in pro cycling, where riders were given grades on a scale from 1-10 for how suspicious they were for blood manipulation.

You are a sick individual.

What's so pathetic about this attempt to smear him, is that the dude is so religious, straight laced and ethical that anyone who knows him knows that he was making sure the drug testers could be heard at the door...probably because Salazar had some memory of hearing about some other athlete getting in trouble because their doorbell wasn't working...

And also, you know, it is the head coaches responsibility to manage stuff like that.

For the 1,000th time, I can tell you from knowing the dude, and meeting these guys, that they are all religious and straight-laced guys.

Additionally, if you understood, really understood how much Salazar would have to lose by doing something afoul of WADA...like his entire 40 year legacy, his legacy at Nike, ALL of his friendships...which for him in business and in sport is one and the same.

And lastly, Phil Knight may not be able to control what a Tiger Woods or a Lance Armstrong does off campus, but you can be damned sure the prime directive from PK has been to do it clean.

There is no way Salazar would risk tarnishing his Oregon, his Nike, his religious, or his family reputations...

Any of you who think otherwise, really need to look within yourselves...you got serious, serious mental issues.

A Duck wrote:

For the 1,000th time, I can tell you from knowing the dude, and meeting these guys, that they are all religious and straight-laced guys.

There is no way Salazar would risk tarnishing his Oregon, his Nike, his religious, or his family reputations...

That's pretty much what Lance and his "supporters" said for years. Then the curtain came up.