Alberto Salazar Told Mo Farah He Wasn't Coaching Mary Slaney When She Tested Positive

What the....!?!

"Salazar accepts that his brilliance contains flaws and eccentricities. In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life. He also mentions a trip to Yugoslavia in the late 1980s when he bought a cheap silver-grey rosary that overnight turned to gold. “I washed the chain, thinking that some sort of weird dust peculiar to the Balkans had worked into the surface of the metal. It was still gold,” he said."

Charlie Stache wrote:

What the....!?!

"Salazar accepts that his brilliance contains flaws and eccentricities. In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life. He also mentions a trip to Yugoslavia in the late 1980s when he bought a cheap silver-grey rosary that overnight turned to gold. “I washed the chain, thinking that some sort of weird dust peculiar to the Balkans had worked into the surface of the metal. It was still gold,” he said."

Good god the hits just keep on coming.

I am loving this.

DOWN GOES SALAZAR.

well, moe doesnt come off as the brightest lad to me.

pretty sure he can be talked into/persuaded to anything.

look how nervous and shaky he seemed at the press conf. no composure at all.

and he looked scared over his shoulder at his agent? to check if he said the "right" things.....

just sayin u know. moeboat is a sinkin ship...

Politics, really? wrote:

If not, should we call him a hypocrite like eliott Spitzer or David Vitter.? Or should we discuss the Buildup of the Iraq War and the sale of a Iraq nuclear program (smoking gun ... Mushroom cloud) or the insanely stupid Mission Accomplished banner as it relates to Salzar's arrogance?

saying the clintons are liars and have a lot of shady things in their past isn't really controversial. it doesn't take a right winger to know it's true.

with that said, i object to his comparison because i think NOP and alberto are clean.

Mo and UK athletics knew about Salazar's connection to Slaney, Lance etc and yet they still chose to work with him. Now they act like they are shocked about the current allegations. What hypocrites! Just like that clown Darren Campbell going on about not wanting his kids to take up track and field because doping claims have made him lose faith in the sport. Yet who was his coach? Linford Christie who failed a drugs test in 1999, Did he leave him after this? Nah I didn't think so.

http://www.british-athletics.co.uk/foster/uk_sport.htm

But he's Somalian!

Body language expert wrote:

Farah looked like a man who knew his world was crumbling around him at the press conference. He is extremely worried and knows it is only a matter of time before his secrets are exposed. He will probably go down as the UKs biggest ever drug cheat

Exactly. I was thinking about that today. When it was revealed that Mary was using a nebulizer prior to races (this is a step up from an ordinary "inhaler"), my thoughts at the time were "oh, she has asthma too; maybe I should be doing that". It seemed like a lot of athletes were "coming out" as asthmatic during that period. (Joan Samuelson too?) That said, I sure as hell wasn't ready to indict them for some kind of doping, having suffered through the same asthmatic crap for years. Plus thyroid as well. Most of these doctors don't understand the nexus between hard training and asthma. Some people come by this honestly. If you ever read "Duel in the Sun" about Salazar and Beardsley (who suffered in other ways but sure as hell shouldn't be damned to hell), you can appreciate the suffering Alberto endured because of his training excesses. No medical system to help him; this wasn't East Germany. Maybe he has been projecting his suffering on his coached athletes and honestly trying to help them. This doesn't justify the extra-medical things which have been documented, but these maladies DO occur within runners of all ilks.

Salazar probably had better access to medical support than just about any other top runner in the US.

I really think that Bill Bowerman, and eventually Bill Dellinger, will turn over in their graves about Alberto's explanation. Unfortunately Salazar seems to have gone to the dark side. To beat the Kenyans, you have to train like them and in the US, maybe people just don't want to make that kind of sacrifice. Alberto was a great collegiate runner, I remember his race against Rono at Hayward Field. I do think he has confused marathon training with middle distance success ie Mary Cain. I really do believe what she said. A great 5k runner does not have to look anorexic, just look at Pre or Jim Beaty, barrel chested and strong. I really do hope that distance running does continue to become enlightened over time.

stan the corgi wrote:

I really think that Bill Bowerman, and eventually Bill Dellinger, will turn over in their graves about Alberto's explanation. Unfortunately Salazar seems to have gone to the dark side. To beat the Kenyans, you have to train like them and in the US, maybe people just don't want to make that kind of sacrifice. Alberto was a great collegiate runner, I remember his race against Rono at Hayward Field. I do think he has confused marathon training with middle distance success ie Mary Cain. I really do believe what she said. A great 5k runner does not have to look anorexic, just look at Pre or Jim Beaty, barrel chested and strong. I really do hope that distance running does continue to become enlightened over time.

We know high altitude/low altitude training is more than likely no more than a way for sea landers to get altitude sickness. We know for sure that sea landers attempting to live & train full-time at higher elevation is simply a likely way to get injured. For U.S. athletes to beat Kenyans, 800m, most likely simply takes greater U.S. 800m participation. See Allen Iverson. See Randy Moss. See Colin Kaepernick. For U.S. athletes to beat Kenyans, events 1500m and longer, sans P.E.D.s, U.S. athletes need to be conceived, carried in womb and born at higher elevation. Three to ten generations in a row at elevation helps.

stan the corgi wrote:

I really think that Bill Bowerman, and eventually Bill Dellinger, will turn over in their graves about Alberto's explanation. Unfortunately Salazar seems to have gone to the dark side. To beat the Kenyans, you have to train like them and in the US, maybe people just don't want to make that kind of sacrifice. Alberto was a great collegiate runner, I remember his race against Rono at Hayward Field. I do think he has confused marathon training with middle distance success ie Mary Cain. I really do believe what she said. A great 5k runner does not have to look anorexic, just look at Pre or Jim Beaty, barrel chested and strong. I really do hope that distance running does continue to become enlightened over time.

"Seems" to have gone to the dark side? Dude full on went Sith Lord.

I believe in his own book Salazar mentions coaching Slaney. He was definitely coaching her when she was busted.

Yes. He was coaching her in '96 at the Trials where she tested positive. He was with her when she was in doping control. Each athlete is allowed one person with them to witness the process of dividing the sample into A and B bottles. He was there.