Kara Goucher Speaks Out About Alberto and NOP!

Most everyone here defending Salazar and NOP claim Goucher was cheating when running for NOP and coached by Salazar.

Things that make you go hmmm.

Flying Carpet Salesman wrote:

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

She was the one who introduced Brown to Salazar! She is patient zero of Dr FrankenBrown! She was the original guinea pig. C'mon, try and keep up.

1. The author is completely jaded .

2. Kara was ground zero for Dr Brown referrals

3. High Horse Jenny wanted in on Dr Brown as well

Are these allegations true or just.... allegations?

What's wrong with this?

"...She seem extremely unstable dude, she’s always mad, yelling or crying in interviews..."

So she wears her heart on her sleeve? Big deal, lots do.

This.

I really do wonder whether some of these posters are paid by Nike or by Salazar. It's not about whether Goucher is a good person. It's not about whether she was involved with the cheating at NOP. It's about Salazar, and the way he's operated for many years.

Goucher put her reputation on the line to help take down one of the most notorious doping coaches in athletics. You don't have to like her or trust her, but at least have some grim satisfaction that the system is working.

Mo Farah's coach Alberto Salazar was recently busted and banned for PED (performance enhancing drug) use.

That means that everyone he coached was on those drugs, yes including Mo Farah.

Anyone, who thinks that Mo Farah was clean is either:

a) Extremely naive

b) A disingenuous liar

c) Has a karyotype that shows a trisomy

Farah was the dirtiest distance runner in track history. And that is saying a lot considering the sport has been littered with dopers since the 1970's.

Hsjsjsjs wrote:

When will colt be diagnosed with hashimotos

You mean he has more than one hashimoto? The poor child.

You Google School of Medicine grads crack me up.

Asami from 'Audition' wrote:

Mo Farah's coach Alberto Salazar was recently busted and banned for PED (performance enhancing drug) use.

That means that everyone he coached was on those drugs, yes including Mo Farah.

Yeah, details, shmetails.

Salazar. Doping. Banned. That's all you need to know.

In this typically narcissistic ramble, she and the author manage to never mention Dr. Brown or mention thyroid meds. Very telling. I'm glad AlSal got taken down but Kara and Adam are not really much better in terms of character. Involving Colt in this is irresponsible as parents.

Banana Bread wrote:

Does anyone else find Kara really cute?

Definitely! Maybe we could take her on a date? Just the three of us?

YMMV wrote:

In this typically narcissistic ramble, she and the author manage to never mention Dr. Brown or mention thyroid meds. Very telling. I'm glad AlSal got taken down but Kara and Adam are not really much better in terms of character. Involving Colt in this is irresponsible as parents.

I agree, she's a total narcissistic person. It's not about what she says happened, it's about her---look at me, listen to me.

It sure would be helpful, now that Dr. Brown has been banned, if the USADA released a list of all athletes who have received a TUE with his name on it as the doctor. I think that list would be very enlightening.

Anyway to get this list?

So her own "whistleblowing" had nothing to do with the arbitration panel's findings?

The panel said nothing about TUEs (a term the Lets Run cognoscenti love to parrot) or the drug she claims Salazar tried to force on her for weight loss?

So how can she possibly feel vindicated? The whistle she blew turned out to be irrelevant.

And my dictionary defines trafficking as to "deal or trade in something illegal." Salazar neither dealt nor traded in testosterone; he used it only on his son as a test to see if an athlete could be sabotaged with it, which is a legitimate concern in light of what Justin Gatlin claims happened to him.

So how is Salazar guilty of "trafficking" in testosterone, as USADA claims?

Sounds to me like a strained effort to make what Salazar did sound much more sinister than it actually was -- as in Alberto Salazar, the testosterone candy man.

Correction: It was Trevor Graham, Justin Gatlin's notorious former coach, who claimed that a masseur rubbed testosterone-laced cream on Gatlin to sabotage his career. Still, the claim raised a possibility that Salazar apparently thought was worth investigating.

Dr. Brown list please wrote:

It sure would be helpful, now that Dr. Brown has been banned, if the USADA released a list of all athletes who have received a TUE with his name on it as the doctor. I think that list would be very enlightening.

Anyway to get this list?

What do you think Dr. Brown has dispensed that qualifies as a TUE?

Taro wrote:

And my dictionary defines trafficking as to "deal or trade in something illegal." Salazar neither dealt nor traded in testosterone; he used it only on his son as a test to see if an athlete could be sabotaged with it, which is a legitimate concern in light of what Justin Gatlin claims happened to him.

So how is Salazar guilty of "trafficking" in testosterone, as USADA claims?

Because your dictionary is not the WADA code.

These posts are disheartening. Just like Jenny, so much criticism of Kara just for being an outspoken woman.

Take a look at the original accusations and insinuations by Goucher and Magness. Now take a look at the actual violations. Looks like they made a bunch of crap up. That's what I have a big problem with.

Kara is still being a bit ambiguous. She says that there was an inner circle at NOP containing Salazar, Rupp and sport psychologist Darren Treasure. Then when Mo Farah joined he was a part of the inner circle. Mo came just a few months before Kara left the group in 2011. She also says "when I found out what I did, I left within months." She doesn't have any hard evidence against Galen besides his private messages with Salazar. I don't think she has said anything about Farah. Is she holding things back still?

So when was it established that Dr. Brown was shady? I think the Colorado athletes in question didn't know he was bad news until things blew up a few years ago. Until that time he was considered fairly reputable.

Gwalkerruns wrote:

She visited Dr. Brown too. All the Colorado runners did. Hypocrite....