I'm not sure why, after going after two athletes, verbally abusing a meet official and then having to be restrained from a physical confrontation...he was allowed to stay in the warm up area at all.
If this had been any other coach or agent they would have been thrown out and had their credential taken away.
Anyone who says that certain people aren't held to different standards is kidding themselves.
Totally agree with this and it should be one of the MANY questions USATF still has to answer. The fact that Salazar was flagrant and hostile towards Lopez Lomong in front of kids seeking autographs is plenty to reason Salazar should have been tossed and maybe lose his credentials for the USATF Championship.
Btw, if Schumacher or any other athlete was pushing back or being abusive verbally, they should lose their credentials, too.
Oneruleforone wrote:
I'm not sure why, after going after two athletes, verbally abusing a meet official and then having to be restrained from a physical confrontation...he was allowed to stay in the warm up area at all.
If this had been any other coach or agent they would have been thrown out and had their credential taken away.
Anyone who says that certain people aren't held to different standards is kidding themselves.
Great question. Sadly though, a question that USATF will avoid like a plague/ebola ridden corpse.
Oneruleforone wrote:
I'm not sure why, after going after two athletes, verbally abusing a meet official and then having to be restrained from a physical confrontation...he was allowed to stay in the warm up area at all.
If this had been any other coach or agent they would have been thrown out and had their credential taken away.
Anyone who says that certain people aren't held to different standards is kidding themselves.
I was thinking the same thing. I think that maybe he should be banned from stadiums for a while.
Nike could get some positive PR by suspending him or just not letting him go to meets with his athletes.
He should be banned from all future USATF events. If not banned, he should at least be suspended for a year or two. He's a disgrace to the sport and to coaches everywhere.
Simple
Nike owns USATF
Lopez should have kicked his ass.
Oneruleforone wrote:
I'm not sure why, after going after two athletes, verbally abusing a meet official and then having to be restrained from a physical confrontation...he was allowed to stay in the warm up area at all.
If this had been any other coach or agent they would have been thrown out and had their credential taken away.
Anyone who says that certain people aren't held to different standards is kidding themselves.
Not if I have anything to do with it. I have written to Terry Crawford to file formal charges regarding the disgusting behavior of Alberto Salazar last weekend. The code of conduct that we are all required to sign to apply to belong to the coaches' registry is this:
Among other standards, the USATF Code of Conduct requires that USATF Registered Coaches must:
1.Be knowledgeable and abide by USATF Bylaws and Regulations, Code of Ethics, Competition
Rules, and other USATF policies, procedures and guidelines.
2. Be competent in their knowledge and professional in their conduct;
3. Not discriminate against anyone in the sport on the basis of gender, race, place of origin, color,
sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, marital states, age or any
other illegal or inappropriate considerations;
4. Be committed to a sport free of prohibited drugs [and techniques]. Registered coaches must have
zero tolerance of prohibited drug use, actively advocate for clean competition and report
suspected use of prohibited drugs to the U.S. Anti‐Doping Agency; {The comments about "grey area" doping by Steve Magness and others should apply here. No tolerance means no tolerance}
5. Not have been found by the relevant authorities to have committed an anti‐doping rule
violation or to have enabled an athlete to commit an anti‐doping rule violation;
6. Strictly avoid sexual intimacy with athletes of any age;
7. Not exploit any relationship established as a coach to further their own personal, political or
business interests at the expense of athletes or other participants;
8. Not abuse any relationship with athletes, assistants, officials, administrators, board members or
others and must avoid situations that present a conflict of interest or impair a coach from acting
in the best interest of athletes
He clearly did violate the Code Of Conduct by:
1. Harassing, intimidating, and interfering with the ability of track officials to perform their duties, and causing those officials to violate the USATF's on rules (by changing the decision of the committee ruling on the Hasay appeal after the decision of the committee was already final under the rules).
2. Threatening and nearly coming to physical violence against Jerry Schumacher.
3. Personally attacking Lopez Lomong.
If you are a coach at any level and you feel likewise about the behavior you observed last weekend, I encourage you to contact Terry Crawford at:
Terry.Crawford@usatf.orghahaha, thanks coach d, I truly do support you in what you're doing, and honestly we all should do the same, but your email will go straight into the "trash" folder if it's heading to terry crawford, she is almost as big a sack of poo as alsal. gosh I love seeing how inbred, incestuous, and bass ackwards usatf is. makes me want to turn to a trail ultra runner forever, geez.
Is there anyone with a level head anymore? Alberto and Jerry don't like each other. They're passionate for their athletes. Their little spat is good for the sport. Rivalries are good for the sport. Since the athletes are weak and avoid each other and refuse to talk trash - unlike other sports - I welcome this heated hatred between two great coaches - who I will point out, get paid by the same company.
The sport needs more of this. Creates interest. Why make the sport boring by banning the most exciting thing in a boring sport?
shades of cal poly slo wrote:
hahaha, thanks coach d, I truly do support you in what you're doing, and honestly we all should do the same, but your email will go straight into the "trash" folder if it's heading to terry crawford, she is almost as big a sack of poo as alsal. gosh I love seeing how inbred, incestuous, and bass ackwards usatf is. makes me want to turn to a trail ultra runner forever, geez.
LOL especially the ultra part
POD
That little spat was NOT good for the sport. I was there and it didn't look good for two grown men acting like teenagers. Salazar definitely is out of control. If any of the other coaches acted like that yes they would've been thrown out of the stadium. He knows who to attack. Can you imagine if he would've went at a young sprinter? Oh, but then again, the sprinter would be in trouble for defending himself, simply because it was Salazar.
Brian Jacobs wrote:
Is there anyone with a level head anymore? Alberto and Jerry don't like each other. They're passionate for their athletes. Their little spat is good for the sport. Rivalries are good for the sport. Since the athletes are weak and avoid each other and refuse to talk trash - unlike other sports - I welcome this heated hatred between two great coaches - who I will point out, get paid by the same company.
The sport needs more of this. Creates interest. Why make the sport boring by banning the most exciting thing in a boring sport?
Rivalry is good. Even some drama is good since many of the athletes are so boring. You know who I mean.
Cheating to change the outcome of competition is not good.
Verbally abusing athletes in front of school children is not good.
What seems to be lost on most letsrunners is that Salazar in bad for the sport. His connections to BALCO, questionable coaching i.e. use of "supplements", and current out of control behavior should be enough for him to be banned.
Track and field does not need AlSal. T&F would benefit from his retirement. AlSal is more an impediment to competitive distance running's growth right now than any other factor. You can point to Nike's overbearing involvement, unfortunately that's what corporations do. Nike will likely get it together and dump AlSal just like Lance Armstrong once they realize he's a PR liability.
I can't help but wonder if the letsrun AlSal fans are for real or just a few well placed trolls to influence opinion.
BTW, USATF isn't helping much either.