dkny64 wrote:
rojo wrote:Here is the link:
http://nikeoregonproject.com/blogs/news/35522561-alberto-open-letter-part-1Going to read it now.
It's a very well crafted statement. Will be interesting to see how Magness, Kara Goucher and Epstein reply.
One thing it DOESN'T address is the whole "I didn't really coach Mary Decker" thing. Guess Mo is good with whatever Salazar told him about that matter.
I hate to say it, but I think AlSal's statement is better reasoned and better documented than the Epstein article. That doesn't necessarily make it true, but it does put AlSal in a much stronger position than I expected it to.
Wherever the truth may lie, good for him for making a detailed statement at a time when the track community is paying close attention.
I'm going to need to re-read everything a time or two again.
The response is more than I anticipated but at first glance I'm not sure it changes much.
In general, we are likely to end up where I thought we'd end up - with one huge unanswered question. Salazar has androgel in his posession at all times, He knows, from testing it on his own son (I was shocked he admitted to that, can that possibly be legal for a doctor to agree to?) that rubbing into an athlete won't result in a positive test. Did he ever rub that into Galen himself?
I think the weakest/weirdest part of his response is how he takes interviews and blog posts from Magness and Goucher when they left the project and compares that to their statements now and acts like that's a big smoking gun.
Salazar himself is the one who in many ways brought this whole investigation onto himself because of similar statements.
Using that line of thinking, Salazar has said, "None of our athletes are on any sports-specific supplement other than beta alanine, which is an amino acid. Other than that, it’s iron, vitamin D and that’s it. You don’t really need anything else.”
His whole response admits that's not true as he says they are/have been on Tribex, Alpha Male, and at times ZMA.