To succinctly sum up the article. There is no news.
tony the tiger wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/11806629/Alberto-Salazar-to-travel-to-World-Championships-to-work-with-Mo-Farah-despite-doping-allegations.html
Well I hope his reading material gets through customs ok.
I trust Alberto , ok !!i can't say the same thing about my wife
Reading The Hole Book series wrote:
Well I hope his reading material gets through customs ok.
They will stealthily shipped by classified, clandestine, means--someone will have a clueless-someone who will have an even more clueless-someone ship the used goods, to be picked by someone without a clue to be given to another clueless person, with the goods dropped off to be picked by someone later on. Salazar is the onion-layers expert on shipping of used books and magazines.
Hang on a minute! These games are being held in China. From what I have read, seen ,heard about PEDs etc, the idea that you have to smuggle banned substances into China is a classic case of coals to Newcastle. Always assuming that Salazar would want to do this, of course, for which there is absolutely no evidence!
Is the word "to" really so long that it needs to be replaced with "2"?
Someone should hang out by the start of the 10000m to make sure no cooling devices get handed from the stands to Mo and Galen before the race starts! Coaches are not supposed to have any contact with athletes once they enter the first call room........
Tongue in cheek, yes? Seriously, you or I could go to the Games and "coach" Farah to gold - in the 10K at least. It will probably be a relatively slow first 5K (or even more if it's hot and humid) and there's nobody beats Farah in that kind of race. The 5K looks more difficult but unless it's a very fast paced effort from the gun I still don't see anyone topping Farah over the last 600m or so.
Could it even be an advantage to have run the 10K prior to the 5K (assuming it went well) rather than hanging around till the back end of the programme to compete? Recovery isn't that much of an issue; remember, Ron Clarke always said the faster you run, the fitter you obviously are so the quicker you recover!
Who foots the bill for Alberto to travel anyway? USA? UK? Nike? Himself?
I thought he was coaching Suguru Osako of Japan, but I can't find any current proof of this.
I forgot about Canada through Levins, too.
I believe USATF pays for one coach for each athlete.
You sure didn't look too hard, shoebacca. It took one search of "suguru osako Oregon project" to find this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/sugurusako/status/584112036721905664
Workingman wrote:
I believe USATF pays for one coach for each athlete.
You believe in jesus and dragons too
Puffy dragon wrote:
Workingman wrote:I believe USATF pays for one coach for each athlete.
You believe in jesus and dragons too
I believe in the latter. First one... meh... weird story
Workingman wrote:
I believe USATF pays for one coach for each athlete.
Nope, USATF only covers the athlete. Not sure if it is the same for Nike coaches but coaches pay their own way and hotels. USATF helps put the coaches up and manage travel for everyone.