ALBERTO SALAZAR BANNED FROM ATHLETICS FOR FOUR YEARS FOR DOPING VIOLATIONS

So does this mean Nike is going to sever ties with Alberto?

Sad day wrote:

A sad day indeed. I find it hard to get excited about this news. Say what you want but Alberto wanted Americans to succeed in running. I believe he’s s current younger athletes are clean. I also believe that Galen was very impressionable when he met with Salazar. He got caught up with the win at whatever the cost attitude when he was in his teens. I hope all will learn from this. Distance running just took a huge hit in America. So much Talent. So very sad.

He won’t be around to bully athletes and coaches that are not Nike affiliates . I wish we could turn back the clock so Gabe G could celebrate her first national win without this monkey ? ruining the evening . This is a big step forward for fair play in American track.

Kara Goucher is probably now celebrating and drinking wine in her $2 million dollar home that Nike money bought.

Alberto is innocent , all circumstantial evidence!!! Who do you think he is Dr. Rosa?

Pursey Lidyard wrote:

Who needs dope when you have cheater shoes... kinda makes the like of “Albuterol” irrelevant.

Yes, I was originallly thinking how big of an asterisk do we put next to Rupp's marathon medal but then realized most of the top atheltes in that race were Nike and presumably wearing the same shoes. I'd like to see a list of 2016 Olympic marathon athletes and how many were in the shoes.

Alberto has always been a loser wrote:

Alberto will now find, like Lance before him, that being an A-hole might feel awesome when you’re on top of the world, but when that comes crashing down, every person you ever dissed will have kicks aimed at your balls.

Exactly. If you're going to dope you have to be respectful and quiet like Miguel Indurain.

lovelybones wrote:

Kara Goucher is probably now celebrating and drinking wine in her $2 million dollar home that Nike money bought.

This implicates Goucher too. If Rupp was dirty, so was she. Goucher is no saint, the only reason she said anything is because they dumped her, she would have been fine with it otherwise. F*ck Kara Goucher.

Ridiculous wrote:

Maybe this is why he really went for the recordbooks w Kejelcha indoors — he knew this was a possibility. It’s sad to think of him being forced to be away from the sport that is was so much of life for him, and him knowing it was coming.

I’m going to write AlSal a letter of support and admiration when I can find where to contact him. He crossed the line on this but I’m sure it was because he thought the E Africans were doing orders of magnitude worse, particularly before things got tightened up a bit in Kenya a couple years back. I think he got the big things right in life.

I hope you never have a job with authority.

If you're a cop, will you steal from pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers because other cops are doing so?

If you're a securities trader, will you do illegal market manipulation because some of your colleagues are doing so?

If you become a platoon sergeant or platoon commander, will you commit war crimes because you feel others are doing so?

Because some Africans may or may not take PEDs is not an excuse for Salazar. Can you believe years ago that P.O.S. had his attorneys contact Let'srun in order to track down the names of posters who referred to Salazar as a drug cheat.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

sky wrote:

I thought Farah parted ways with Salazar in 2017, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

Correct. Al still coached Farah in Rio.

Thanks, I stand corrected. I thought the break was before Rio. Being incorrect, I'd now say that Farah could be in danger.

reer wrote:

Why are posts disappearing? I didn't see anything inappropriate here.

Nor did we. Weldon was irate they were deleted. He was cussing at m e and trying to figure out who deleted them.

Just making sure... wrote:

This is October 1st and not April 1st, right?

September 30th...

Bryce Hoppel is up at 5:22 am tweeting at Jon. Jon and I still haven't been to sleep.

Jon and I started wondering if his roommate (Clayton Murphy) knows the news about his coach.

Mr Memory. wrote:

A reminder:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323550604578412913149043072

Shocker! Who would have guessed Mr Burns' twin brother isn't the most moral person alive.

So if he guilty of orchestrating doping the. His athletes are guilty of doping. Can’t be any other way. If they didn’t dope then he’s innocent.

So when are the athlete’s penalties coming down!?

Gotta keep this thread relevant

Track Fan 1979 wrote:

So does this mean Nike is going to sever ties with Alberto?

He’ll get a bonus

Rupp drops out of Chicago in 3....2....1.....

What makes Radcliffe more guilty than the athletes mentioned above? Running great performances does not imply doping.

Kev2 wrote:

What makes Radcliffe more guilty than the athletes mentioned above? Running great performances does not imply doping.

Running for a sleazy coach does.