The full USADA report on Alberto Salazar has been leaked - Here it is

Let's Clarify wrote:

So this statement:

"A typical IV dose of L-carnitine is 50 mg/kg. = 3,000 mg total dose for a 60 kg. person. It can be given by a slow IV injection over 2 to 3 minutes from a large syringe. The dose of 3,000 mg is only a 15 mL injection of L-carnitine at 200 mg/mL. There is no need for an IV bag and an infusion that lasts over an hour.

So you're saying an average person's weight and normal dose of L-carnitime? Correct? I mean 60kg of weight...is that a normal weight for an athlete?

For an African maybe, but most western runners would be 65-72kg.

name one member of the NOP (or basically ANY profession distance runner not named solinsky) who weighs over 65kg.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

...is that a normal weight for an athlete?

For an African maybe, but most western runners would be 65-72kg.[/quote]

They gave the entire 100 mL bags. They administered 1 to 4 bags. They did not administer 14 mL or 15 mL ( = 3,000 mg of L-carnitine) because that dose does not raise plasma carnitine concentrations from under 100 micromol/L to 2000 micromol/L after the IV infusion of L-carnitine.

The IV infusion had a duration of over 1 hour.

Even though L-carnitine is available in the US as pills or powder for oral use, all L-carnitine for intravenous injection or infusion is a prescription drug.

The idea for the L-carnitine infusions came from Alberto Salazar and not from Dr. Brown. Dr. Brown just does what Alberto tells him to do…and he is paid by someone (Nike?) to see all the NOP athletes.

Coach Alberto has played doctor and practiced medicine without a license on many occasions.

He has dispensed the prescription NSAID drug Celebrex to athletes without a prescription for Celebrex, which is illegal because Alberto is not a doctor or a pharmacy.

He has had Mo Farah, Dathan Ritzenhein and other runners on the prescription hormone drug calcitonin…until Pete Julian found out that it might increase cancer risk. Whoops. Then the athletes were told to stop taking calcitonin…after Ritzenhein had already been on it for 4 years.

Alberto Salazar dispensed the schedule III controlled substance and prescription drug Androgel (testosterone gel) to his 2 experimental subjects (his 2 sons) when he did the "Possible Galen Rupp Sabotage with Androgel Experiments" with measurement of testosterone/epitestosterone (T/E) levels to see what amount would trigger a positive doping test. That is against various federal and state drug laws because Alberto is not a doctor or pharmacy and neither of his 2 sons had a prescription for Androgel. It is illegal to dispense a schedule III controlled substance and prescription drug Androgel to any person who does not have a prescription for Androgel.

Alberto Salazar has also emailed Galen Rupp and told Galen to increase his dose of the prescription thyroid hormone drug Levoxyl (T4) and to start on the prescription drug Cytomel (T3) right away. He then offers to drive the prescription thyroid hormone drug Cytomel over to Galen.

Alberto Salazar is coach, doctor, pharmacy…and massage therapist for Galen Rupp... all in one.

In a Dec. 20, 2011, email to Rupp, he wrote: "Take a full extra Levoxyl tonight and start on Cytomel right away. P.S. I've got Cytomel. If you don't have it, call me and I'll drive it over."

Alberto Salazar should not be "playing doctor" with Galen Rupp by telling him to increase his dose of Levoxyl and to start Cytomel.

Coach Alberto Salazar should also not act like a pharmacy delivery service for Galen Rupp.

from Sports Illustrated:

"While USADA correctly notes the report is a response to a subpoena from a state medical licensing agency, the report is remarkably extensive. I can only imagine how many hours went into this document and accompanying investigation. It's clear the investigation was motivated by more than a mere desire to comply with an out-of-state subpoena. The fact that it is called a "report" rather than a response or answer is also suggestive of a broader investigative goal.

"It is very hard to discern from the report if any criminal acts were committed. This is not surprising. USADA's point of interest is—understandably—whether USADA anti-doping rules were violated, not whether criminal laws were broken as USADA is not authorized to make such determinations.

"That said, if the report proves accurate, drug trafficking, conspiracy and even racketeering charges are plausible, as it the report suggests drugs were trafficked across state as part of an organized operation. The possible application of criminal law is a complex topic, however, and in some potential cases the statute of limitations might have expired. It's also not clear if the FDA, DEA or Department of Justice or related Texas law enforcement agencies had any involvement in this investigation or awareness of it."

https://www.si.com/olympics/2017/05/26/alberto-salazar-response-usada-investigation-report-legal-implications

https://www.si.com/olympics/2017/03/07/alberto-salazar-doping-allegations-fbi-investigation

(No worries for Alberto.)

In conclusion:

1) Coach Alberto Salazar is neither a doctor nor a pharmacy.

2) Coach Alberto Salazar needs to be STOPPED.

In my opinion, Alvina Begay is a nice, honest person and I don't think she knew what she was getting herself into when she was recruited as a promising Navajo elite runner. She got out very quickly when it started to get weird. Salazar was pushing pills at her constantly.

Garrett Heath, Yuki Kawauchi, Lopez Lomong, Feyisa Lilesa just off the top of my head.

voice of reason. wrote:

name one member of the NOP (or basically ANY profession distance runner not named solinsky) who weighs over 65kg.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

...is that a normal weight for an athlete?

For an African maybe, but most western runners would be 65-72kg.