Timeline of Salazar's 2014 Meltdown

Too quick to judge? wrote:

This makes sense. If the most powerful man in your sport is yelling at you, it's intimidation by power. I agree.

But it is not sleazy unless it's with the intent of using that power. Does Salazar not have the same rights to argue his brains out just because of his position with Nike? I would never fault a coach for arguing on behalf of his athlete, and I wouldn't discriminate based on how much money the shoe company backing him gives USATF. Until I hear something that leads me to believe he was truly "threatening" rather than just arguing, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

The main issue is that per protocol he appealed and lost twice, and then went behind closed curtains with his Nike cronies at his side and had the decision overturned. Regardless of any intimidation or bullying, this was not along USATF rules and the procedure was not transparent.

= Not Good for the Sport

Pressure getting to him wrote:

Forgot to add:

9. Athletes competing in the women's national indoor 1500m stage protest gesture against Salazar.

Also forgot the Alberto-Nike-Phoebe Wright episode this winter, in which she was reprimanded for her irreverent tweets that hit a nerve with NOP.

Alberto made very clear his displeasure with Phoebe. Regardless of how you see this issue, it also happened and reflects the general pattern.

Maybe Salazar should be checked for a brain tumor.

help me out here wrote:

Rupp ran 4:01 for the mile, 8:03 for 3k, and 13:37 all in HS. Solinsky was a Foot Locker champion and ran very fast for 3200m in HS. Rupp wins silver and breaks the AR, therefore he must be on drugs despite times indicating he ranks as one of the best HS runners of all-time.

Wake up. Rupp's suddent improvement senior year when he needed a contract. Rupp's going from can't kick/break 4:00 in the mile to 3:50 - that's what raises the red flag.

Well that and the fact we already know they'll do every legal advantageous thing allowed - tents, masks, thyroid, TUEs.

Well that and Sal's past with AW and Slaney.

And Magness's silence after leaving. Same thing with Goucher, Yoder.

So you're right in the one sense, running fast doesn't mean you are a doper. But improving more in the mile than person I'm aware of in human history is a different thing alltogether. Throw in the other stuff and you are fool if you don't at least think it's 50-50.

-live in oregon

OP, you forgot one thing. He got a guy DQ for fouling his runner 1k from the finish - only it wasn't his guy. To me, that's even more embarrassing. If rupp had lost to hill and then hill had been DQd, amazon.co wouldn't have enough server space to keep letsrun afloat.

Anger Management wrote:

Another thing is, see a therapist and have the therapist report on whether anger management progress is actually being made.

I would hope that he is seeing a therapist, as he suffers from severe depression and has admitted contemplating suicide.

live in oregon wrote:

help me out here wrote:

Rupp ran 4:01 for the mile, 8:03 for 3k, and 13:37 all in HS. Solinsky was a Foot Locker champion and ran very fast for 3200m in HS. Rupp wins silver and breaks the AR, therefore he must be on drugs despite times indicating he ranks as one of the best HS runners of all-time.

Wake up. Rupp's suddent improvement senior year when he needed a contract. Rupp's going from can't kick/break 4:00 in the mile to 3:50 - that's what raises the red flag.

Well that and the fact we already know they'll do every legal advantageous thing allowed - tents, masks, thyroid, TUEs.

Well that and Sal's past with AW and Slaney.

And Magness's silence after leaving. Same thing with Goucher, Yoder.

.

Let's be fair and clear here:

Rupp ran 4:01, 8:07, 13:37 BEFORE COLLEGE! Did you forget or not know that?

It's also no secret that he started working out with Centro, Wheating, Acosta, McNamara etc. his senior year after XC specifically to sharpen his speed. Keep in mind he won a 13:30 5K over Solinsky and 27:30 10K at Stanford both with a kick before his senior year. He closed out the stanford race around 2 minutes for the last 800.

It didn't come from nowhere, it was all being put in the barn for years.

He is reported to have done a workout as a college freshman as follows:

Morning workout - 7 mile tempo at 4:50 pace on the bark "Adidas Trail".

Afternoon workout - Warm up and 20 x 200 @ :27 splits.

That's called redlining it. If he was doing that kind of work as a freshman, it's no wonder he had no pop in his legs at the end of his races. 4 years later, with the workout volume toned down and the speedwork focus, it seems logical that he would finally get some snap. He went from a 4:01 high schooler to a 3:57 college senior indoors and then maybe 3:55 or a little better outdoors that year considering he did 3:39 on a triple at regionals.

Way to leave off announcing and achieving AR in 5k and 2 mile

Pressure getting to him wrote:

1. Called out by Craig Virgin regarding use of TUEs

2. Brags about Rupp's mile world record attempt

3. Rupp fails miserably in mile race

4. Nick Willis calls out Rupp

5. Eammon Coglan calls out Rupp/Salazar

6. Rupp loses 3000m at nationals

7. Salazar gets an athlete from the 3000m disqualified

8. Salazar has to be physically restrained from attacking a coach

9. Hasey fails to make US national team in 3000m

10. Salazar uses influence to bend USATF rules to get winner of 3000m disqualified

11. Salazar verbally berates Lomong in front of children

12. Salazar has verbal altercation with a coach in the elevator

Pressure getting to him wrote:

1. Called out by Craig Virgin regarding use of TUEs

2. Brags about Rupp's mile world record attempt

3. Rupp fails miserably in mile race

4. Nick Willis calls out Rupp

5. Eammon Coglan calls out Rupp/Salazar

6. Rupp loses 3000m at nationals

7. Salazar gets an athlete from the 3000m disqualified

8. Salazar has to be physically restrained from attacking a coach

9. Hasey fails to make US national team in 3000m

10. Salazar uses influence to bend USATF rules to get winner of 3000m disqualified

11. Salazar verbally berates Lomong in front of children

12. Salazar has verbal altercation with a coach in the elevator

And centro doesn't even run indoors haha

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

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"Threatening"? You can be out of line, unprofessional and a plain jerk without threatening. Alberto should step forward and apologize--not easy, maybe, but appropriate. Even if you think you are right and your athletes were fouled, you can appeal, and appeal again, without acting the way he did. I have been on his side and incredibly proud of him, as a runner and coach, but not in this case. He needs to take a deep breath, step back from the spotlight, and make amends--for the sake of his own athletes and others. Will he? I'm betting no.

Stop beating up on el white runner supremo it's AlSal who's da problem for the record thyroid hormone medication is NOT banned grunewald did trip hasay as well as Rowbury and should have been DQd the bumby DQ was BS and a total identity mistakeregardless you suck Alberto Salazar

I am not going to defend his behavior there. But he gives interviews constantly and allows us to see many of his athletes's workouts, which is very useful and interesting to us. In contrast, Schumacher almost never says a word in public, doesn't let his athletes's workouts be filmed, and never tells us anything about how they train. Salazar does much more for the sport, while also detracting from it sometimes from his ultra-competitiveness and type A personality. Sometimes you have to let your athletes fight their own battles on the track and in xc.

Here\'s the link about Salazar's son having to defend his dad.

Pressure getting to him wrote:

1. Called out by Craig Virgin regarding use of TUEs

2. Brags about Rupp's mile world record attempt

3. Rupp fails miserably in mile race

4. Nick Willis calls out Rupp

5. Eammon Coglan calls out Rupp/Salazar

6. Rupp loses 3000m at nationals

7. Salazar gets an athlete from the 3000m disqualified

8. Salazar has to be physically restrained from attacking a coach

9. Hasey fails to make US national team in 3000m

10. Salazar uses influence to bend USATF rules to get winner of 3000m disqualified

11. Salazar verbally berates Lomong in front of children

12. Salazar has verbal altercation with a coach in the elevator

13. you are a basement-dwelling conspiracy theorist with too much time on your hands

It's not a theory if the events actually happened!