Salazar Reacts to CAS Decision to Uphold Suspension

Son of Cuban exile lie, cheat, steal medal. He bad. Took drug to improve performance. Not fair to other athlete. Oregon Duck.

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I'm rooting for AlSal to make a full coaching comeback and his athletes to Just Win Baby!!!

I can't wait to see which athletes and national associations of questionable character choose to work with this guy once his suspension's up and he's reinstated.

Rupp's shoes probably were more effective in getting him a medal in 2016 than any of AlSal's jiggery-pokery. Eliud too, not that he needed the advantage .

Breakfast In Bed wrote:

I can't wait to see which athletes and national associations of questionable character choose to work with this guy once his suspension's up and he's reinstated.

Hmm, maybe Cuba? Some other former Soviet satellite? China?

LetsRupp wrote:

Son of Cuban exile lie, cheat, steal medal. He bad. Took drug to improve performance. Not fair to other athlete. Oregon Duck.

Many people immigrated from Cuba after Castro took power and what does that have to do with Salazar anyway? He was a toddler when his family came to the U.S.

There's always the most dubious state sponsored doping regime in the world waiting for him

Good old USA it is then.

whataworld wrote:

“While I am disappointed that CAS did not reduce my sanction, I am pleased that the decision rejected USADA’s efforts to impose a lifetime ban and assert numerous other violations of the WADA Code,” Salaza said in a statement. “The decision reaffirmed that no Nike Oregon Project athlete was ever doped, that no competition was impacted by these technical violations, and that I generally took great care to ensure that any new techniques, methods and substances were lawful under the WADA Code.”

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There he goes with the half-truths again. Every Salazar/NOP statement was always not entirely true. The CAS never said "No NOP athlete never doped." They just said, more or less, "In the instances we examined, no athletes were proved to have doped." That's it. It's not either or, it's a non-statement on the situation. We still have many, very credible allegations.

Finito wrote:

Rupp's shoes probably were more effective in getting him a medal in 2016 than any of AlSal's jiggery-pokery. Eliud too, not that he needed the advantage .

This ^

Salazar is pretty much the shoe. Everyone knew it was cheating, but since there wasn't a rule or enforcement of the rule, it wasn't cheating.

Jake Angeli wrote:

Finito wrote:

Rupp's shoes probably were more effective in getting him a medal in 2016 than any of AlSal's jiggery-pokery. Eliud too, not that he needed the advantage .

This ^

Salazar is pretty much the shoe. Everyone knew it was cheating, but since there wasn't a rule or enforcement of the rule, it wasn't cheating.

Yupp, I woulda won a medal too if it werent fer them shoe cheatin Nike dirtbags.

absofreakinlutely wrote:

Jake Angeli wrote:

This ^

Salazar is pretty much the shoe. Everyone knew it was cheating, but since there wasn't a rule or enforcement of the rule, it wasn't cheating.

Yupp, I woulda won a medal too if it werent fer them shoe cheatin Nike dirtbags.

Hi Kara!

exactly. even less i think - no evidence was pt forward about this, since it wasnt needed.

My issue with Salazar is that he, himself, cheated during his competitive years. I was a fan of his, in the early-80s, and enjoyed watching bury himself every time out. But to learn he was on PEDs or whatever, that ruined my memories.

If you are a cheat, you should not be a coach, at least in this capacity. Simple. But I guess you can blame Nike for this, by and large.

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

My issue with Salazar is that he, himself, cheated during his competitive years. I was a fan of his, in the early-80s, and enjoyed watching bury himself every time out. But to learn he was on PEDs or whatever, that ruined my memories.

If you are a cheat, you should not be a coach, at least in this capacity. Simple. But I guess you can blame Nike for this, by and large.

I totally believe he cheated, but AFAIK, there's no concrete proof. In his biography he talks about prozac and even mentions it's "off-label" uses, but that wasn't a banned substance and still isn't. In one of the hearings he said he took testosterone for "some months" in 1991 I believe. Again, back to his biography, during this time he says he cleared it with the USADA (or whatever it was called back then) and had exemptions to take certain medications but he could not compete, HOWEVER, he totally fails to mention the testosterone in his book. It seems like the testosterone was likely a part of his exemption. He makes a point to talk about how he took prozac, how he was demonized for it, and how transparent and honest he is about it. It's beyond fishy that he didn't disclose the testosterone in his book. Then there's, you know, the entire Athletics West thing. He says "No one ever offered me PEDs", meanwhile, multiple people are on record saying "Yeah, AW taught athletes how to take steroids."

Birkoboy wrote:

There's always the most dubious state sponsored doping regime in the world waiting for him

Good old USA it is then.

Hi Vladimir!

Rupp wasn’t the only person in the race with those shoes big guy

He never has admitted he used PEDs during his prime. Come on, that’s just not true at all.

Jack Frost wrote:

He never has admitted he used PEDs during his prime. Come on, that’s just not true at all.

So using exogenous testosterone is okay if it’s near the tail end of your career?