Give Me A Break wrote:
Salazar mentioned Kara being responsible for NOP and Dr. Brown relationship (probably means she brought her doctor-patient relationship with her when she joined NOP in what around 2004?)
That's possible. The WSJ article doesn't say how they were introduced, and doesn't mention the Gouchers at all. It notes that Brown worked with Carl Lweis way back in 1996. It says that Salazar calls Brown "the best sports endocrinologist in the world," and says that Brown diagnosed Rupp as hypothyroid in 2006, when Rupp would have been 19 or 20.
This part is a little strange:
of the 30 athletes who have trained with Salazar as part of Nike's elite team of distance runners, he said that five—or 17% --have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
The article is dated April 10, 2013.
Salazar now says, " I have coached 55 professional athletes in my career. Of those 55 athletes only 5 have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism after I had started coaching them."
Clearly, the NOP hasn't seen 25 new athletes enter its doors in the past two-plus years.
Did Salazar work with other pros before forming the Oregon Project? He appears to be trying to give the impression that all 55 athletes he mentions have been part of the NOP. It would advantageous for him to give this impression if he is trying to lower the apparent percentage of NOP athletes who at some point have been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid.