The NOP Scandal is the biggest in years. Why haven't the USATF spoke up about it?

Vasachi wrote:

media searcher wrote:

[quote]the Los Angeles Times wrote:

Link fix:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/more/la-sp-sn-mo-farah-alberto-salazar-controversy-20150618-story.html

Yeah...this absolutely screamed off the front page of the sports section. LOL!

Reporter: So what are your thoughts on the investigation on your Coach for drug violations?

Mary: WTF How come no one has told me about this?

Reporter: It's everywhere Mary. Even on Facebook.

Mary: I haven't been on Facebook or any social media.

Reporter: WTH Mary what do you do besides run and go to school?

Mary: .... Well I have my own apartment and a boyfriend

This is not the biggest scandal in years apart from to running geeks. No one tested positive, no one has yet been banned, Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin failed tests and were banned, Powell tested positive, numerous Russians and Kenyans tested positive. They should have been bigger stories.

If Alberto was not Mos coach the UK media would not give a rats ass. The story would have had no legs at all. No one would have bothered with it. No one in the UK apart from runners even know who Rupp are Salazar are despite the TV program and newspaper articles. No one cares. So far no evidence whatsoever against Mo despite all the digging.

Magness is a hypocrite as well coaching the wife of a man known to take thyroid hormone (Ryan Hall). Is she taking thyroid too?

Flat Stanley wrote:

This is not the biggest scandal in years apart from to running geeks. No one tested positive, no one has yet been banned, Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin failed tests and were banned, Powell tested positive, numerous Russians and Kenyans tested positive. They should have been bigger stories.

If Alberto was not Mos coach the UK media would not give a rats ass. The story would have had no legs at all. No one would have bothered with it. No one in the UK apart from runners even know who Rupp are Salazar are despite the TV program and newspaper articles. No one cares. So far no evidence whatsoever against Mo despite all the digging.

Magness is a hypocrite as well coaching the wife of a man known to take thyroid hormone (Ryan Hall). Is she taking thyroid too?

Good work here. Nicely done version of "Nothing to see. Move on."

Except, the sport's biggest sponsor, a worldwide brand with the ethics of a crocodile, is financing a doping program.

I'll give Salazar credit for running a very advanced doping program. But, it's the usual stuff tripping him up like doping teenagers, dodgy stuff with pharmaceuticals, and shipping PEDs that does him in.

How many times has Dr. Brown been a presenter at USATF High Performance Clinics? Draw your own conclusions.

media searcher wrote:

the Los Angeles Times wrote:

Link fix:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/more/la-sp-sn-mo-farah-alberto-salazar-controversy-20150618-story.html

Yeah...this absolutely screamed off the front page of the sports section. LOL!

LOL ... NOP PR firms grasping for air ..... gurgle, gurgle, glug, ugh.... It's over. Cash you checks before your clients go under.

Flat Stanley wrote:Magness is a hypocrite as well coaching the wife of a man known to take thyroid hormone (Ryan Hall). Is she taking thyroid too?

Even more ironic: Magness coached Lance Armstrong.

Actually, Salazar coached Armstrong.

http://running.competitor.com/2013/01/news/magness-my-interactions-with-lance-armstrong_64596

MAGNESS: So when I met Lance for the first time in 2011, it was a day of mixed emotions. I was working at Nike alongside Alberto Salazar, and Lance came to the company’s headquarters in Oregon several times to work with us and others. He was beginning his transition toward becoming a competitive triathlete and wanted our help for the running portion of it. Lance was friends with Alberto, who had helped him get through a marathon a few years before, so it was a natural fit for us to work with him on his running form and training. Over the course of a couple different visits, we worked with him on his running mechanics, and there were even a few weeks where I was emailing him suggested hard workouts.

jjjjjj wrote:

USATF is bought and paid for by Nike.

It only took how many posts for someone to finally point this out?

Seriously, remove Nike from the equation and there essentially is no USATF. Not only do they provide the vast majority of the funding, even the new board chairman, Steve Miller, is a former Nike exec.

USATF is a basically a wholly owned subsidiary of Nike.

It is kind of funny how USATF issues a statement immediately on Indiana SB101:

http://www.usatf.org/News/Statement-from-USATF-CEO-Max-Siegel-on-the-clarifi.aspx

but can't say anything on a doping controversy in its own sport that possibly involves the lab of its biggest sponsor.

Can you imagine the NFL having no comment on a doping controversy with one of its teams? It just shows what a joke USATF is in terms of "professional" sports in the US. They'd be forced to say something.

At the very least just say, "These allegations are just allegations, but are very troubling. USADA handles anti-doping in the United States and we trust them to get tot he bottom of this."

Baghdad Bob wrote:

Very suspicious if you ask me. Correct me if I'm wrong, have they made a statement yet, or are they waiting to coordinate with Salazar and Capriotti?

They're in the business of athletics, not drugs, so I see no reason for them to advertise and promote that drugs benefit athletes, the way that Letsdrug.com does.

They're in the business of supercharged athletics, so they see no reason to draw attention to the seamy side of what that means.

webby wrote:

They're in the business of supercharged athletics, so they see no reason to draw attention to the seamy side of what that means.

This forum is very stupid. I come here for discussions of athletics, not drugs.