Pete Julian and the active NOP rebrand

If you had told me several years ago that Pete Julian would be associated with something like the NOP drama today I wouldn't have believed it. The guy was basically the polar opposite of the NOP (or at least as it's portayed). If you knew his story, why he ended up running at the University of Portland because Oregon didn't want him (before they were good, he was part of the first UP team who beat Oregon), his journey as a post-collegian scraping by on the fringes and making US national teams while dealing with cancer, etc. It was not the same story as the NOP folks. The guy coached at a dirt poor high school in Denver, worked at a running store and then started a D2 program in inner-city Denver at Metro St. And most folks don't remember back in 2007 he brought the US XC Champs to Boulder and helped put together one of best fields assembled of all-time in US XC running. The guy loved running, he qualified for four US Olympic Trials from the 5000m to marathon from 1996-2008. He was still living and coaching in Colorado at time, then moved on to coach at Washington State for a couple of years. The guy knows the sport, came from a running family and was a respected competitor back in day. Maybe something happened after that in 2008 when he got involved with the NOP, but for the record a lot of people that knew Pete liked him.

Pete was involved in at least 2 L-carnitine infusions that we know of. One, he took an athlete to with the athlete not knowing exactly what they were getting done.

Pete may have been a great guy, but when you are around Salazar for a decade, morality shifts. You never know what people will do to get to the top.

For the record, Pete worked with Salazar in 2008, as well.

Nope wrote:

Pete himself is the latest to step into the social media whitewashing of NOP’s history and method of doing business.

Having athletes separate themselves from Alberto and provide naive sounding support for the ‘clean NOP’ was clearly not sufficient. Now Nike has made Pete join Instagram to proclaim his and the project’s complete innocence.

What a load of it.

You don’t know what whitewashing is, do you?

Pretty clear from his first post:

- He's not distancing himself from Alberto. In fact, he is professing his loyalty to Alberto on that post.

- He doesn't regret his role in doping athletes at the NOP. He's part of the Nike cult through and through.

And yeah... the OP should look up "whitewashing"...

The thing I find the most interesting is Murphy didn't head to Julian, and if you check Clayton's instagram he still has NOP on his bio. Guess he's loyal to Al till the end.

Just read his first post wrote:

Pretty clear from his first post:

- He's not distancing himself from Alberto. In fact, he is professing his loyalty to Alberto on that post.

- He doesn't regret his role in doping athletes at the NOP. He's part of the Nike cult through and through.

And yeah... the OP should look up "whitewashing"...

Sorry for my understanding of vocabulary.

whitewash

—verb: to cover up or gloss over the faults or errors of; absolve from blame

I am not sure about Osako and Jenkins but I think all the other athletes had been coached by Julian already before. Rowbury apparently trained with Julian since coming back after her pregnancy. So the future of the Salazar athletes Rupp, Hasay, Hassan, Murphy and Kejelcha seems still undecided.

Jo72 wrote:

I am not sure about Osako and Jenkins but I think all the other athletes had been coached by Julian already before. Rowbury apparently trained with Julian since coming back after her pregnancy. So the future of the Salazar athletes Rupp, Hasay, Hassan, Murphy and Kejelcha seems still undecided.

Jenkins and Osako have been coached by Julian since joining NOP.

Link to post?

"..So the future of the Salazar athletes Rupp, Hasay, Hassan, Murphy and Kejelcha.."

Still "coached" by Salazar. how do you stop someone coaching? Bug their phone? Ban them from all forms of computers/IT?

Salazar sets the workouts, someone films them, sends him the footage and details of times/splits etc. Salazar and the athlete have a conversation later that day. How can this be prevented? Salazar is not going to be in jail!

It cannot be prevented. But if someone rats the athlete out s/he will be banned because apparently contact with a banned coach counts similarly to a doping infraction by the athletes themselves. So such direct contact would be very risky. Of course, it's still possible and maybe it can be avoided by more relay stations. E.g. Salazar sends something to a third party, this person to another one and the next station would be Rupp. But this would also mean more people who know about it and could tell USADA.

Where is it wrote:

Link to post?

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I think you mean:

....for the record a lot of people that KNOW Pete STILL like him. Move along now. Buhbye.

Please joining me in praying for the safe release of Alberto Salazar and the end of this witch hunt.

#justiceforAlSal #SendThemBack #M.A.G.A.

I'm going to need a new handle. Any chance that they will operate out of Abeline? Or Aberdeen?