Tag: Alberto Salazar
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Nike’s Groundbreaking Oregon Project Wound Up In Disgrace
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (AFP/APP): The Nike Oregon Project was set up to end the distance-running dominance of the east Africans but has become a huge headache for the US sportswear giant, which said Friday it was shutting it down. Alberto Salazar, the coach who founded the prestigious Portland-based training group in 2001, pushed himself to…
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Nike shuts down Oregon Project
Nike shuts down its Oregon project after Coach Alberto being banned
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Salazar Used Athletes As ‘Laboratory Animals’: USADA Chief
Berlin (AFP/APP): Top coach Alberto Salazar, banned for four years following a doping probe, used athletes as “laboratory animals”, the US Anti-Doping Agency’s chief Travis Tygart said Wednesday. The World Athletics Championships, currently taking place in Doha, was rocked by the scandal on Tuesday and Salazar, 61, was stripped of his accreditation. The former top…
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Nike Risks Being Burned By Salazar Doping Scandal
New York (AFP/APP): With Nike-backed athletics coach Alberto Salazar slapped with a four-year ban for doping, the US sportswear giant risks being caught up in the scandal — its CEO is even quoted in the suspension ruling. Citing experiments with testosterone, fat-burning amino acid injections and falsified medical documents, the American anti-doping authority USADA said…
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Salazar Faces World Championships Expulsion After Drug Ban
Doha (AFP/APP): Alberto Salazar will be barred from the World Athletics Championships following his four-year doping ban, US officials said Tuesday. In a statement following news of Salazar’s suspension, the United States Track and Field Federation said it had moved to have the 61-year-old coach stripped of his credentials for Doha. “USATF has taken the…