Mary Cain and Nike

[NotDutra5]

I’m having trouble with even that. Salazar would have been quite conversant on banned substances and known she could not take them for fear of triggering a positive.

Wouldn't anyone who takes banned substances fear a trigger of a positive? Doesn't seem to stop a lot of athletes and coaches.

[Dave]

Diuretics are primarily used by track athletes as a masking agent so that chap knew exactly what he was doing.

Rapidly shedding of water weight would not have helped Mary Cain.

That is my point. He would have known full well that the diuretics are a masking agent and not been so stupid as to prescribe them. The word of the day is that Salazar is evil. No one claimed that he is stupid.

[NotDutra5]

That is my point. He would have known full well that the diuretics are a masking agent and not been so stupid as to prescribe them. The word of the day is that Salazar is evil. No one claimed that he is stupid.

The fear of getting caught is going to make coaches and/or athletes not use banned substances?

[Dave]

The fear of getting caught is going to make coaches and/or athletes not use banned substances?

Salazar is a guy who supposedly gave his kid microdoses of prednisone and testosterone to find out what level would trigger a positive test result. Does that seem like someone who’d take a chance with a much more detectable drug?

When all is said and done, a lot of people who are playing victim here will end up looking more complicit. That statement being true is not likely to make Salazar look any better.

[NotDutra5]

Salazar is a guy who supposedly gave his kid microdoses of prednisone and testosterone to find out what level would trigger a positive test result. Does that seem like someone who’d take a chance with a much more detectable drug?

I may not be able to post what it really sounds like but once a coach or athlete heads down this road at all, it's pretty hard to come up with an explanation of he would have been more careful. It comes across as trying to avoid blame where it applies.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile .....SI has an article out today.....amazing the pounding Salazar and Nike is getting from the press...the bad new continues....


Inside the Toxic Culture of the Nike Oregon Project 'Cult'

Amid the fallout from Cain’s comments, Sports Illustrated contacted nine former Nike Oregon Project members, including Cain, about the culture under Salazar, and their accounts, extending back to 2008, validate her claims and paint a picture of a toxic culture where female athletes’ bodies were fair game to be demeaned publicly. Multiple authority figures appeared to lack certifications. Former team members now describe it, in retrospect, as “a cult.” Now leaders from the anti-doping world and even Salazar’s de facto successor as coach are calling for a third-party investigation of The Oregon Project.

https://www.si.com/track-and-field/2...-investigation

[Conor Dary]

Alberto will look back at the day he was banned for 4 years as the good times if this keeps going on.....

[thedoorknobbroke]

Meanwhile .....SI has an article out today.....amazing the pounding Salazar and Nike is getting from the press...the bad new continues....


Inside the Toxic Culture of the Nike Oregon Project 'Cult'

Amid the fallout from Cain’s comments, Sports Illustrated contacted nine former Nike Oregon Project members, including Cain, about the culture under Salazar, and their accounts, extending back to 2008, validate her claims and paint a picture of a toxic culture where female athletes’ bodies were fair game to be demeaned publicly. Multiple authority figures appeared to lack certifications. Former team members now describe it, in retrospect, as “a cult.” Now leaders from the anti-doping world and even Salazar’s de facto successor as coach are calling for a third-party investigation of The Oregon Project.

https://www.si.com/track-and-field/2...-investigation

knew this would not go away...likely this is pretty much the beginning...the entire culture of distance running will undergo scrutiny like women's/girls gymnastics..not the same type of abuse but abuse just the same...likely at all levels and international in scope.

[Dave]

I may not be able to post what it really sounds like but once a coach or athlete heads down this road at all, it's pretty hard to come up with an explanation of he would have been more careful. It comes across as trying to avoid blame where it applies.

I’m a retired computer guy who was pretty sure diuretics were banned. I figure that Salazar would know enough to know how to cheat such that his athletes were not caught up with the easy stuff. Telling an athlete that she should start taking diuretics would seem too stupid for someone like Salazar.

Nothing I am saying makes NOP a nice or ethical place to be.

[mungo man]

Salazar is a guy who supposedly gave his kid microdoses of prednisone and testosterone to find out what level would trigger a positive test result. Does that seem like someone who’d take a chance with a much more detectable drug?

When all is said and done, a lot of people who are playing victim here will end up looking more complicit. That statement being true is not likely to make Salazar look any better.

You are assuming diuretics are easily detectable. Athletes dope with detectable substances for years and never get caught. The testing regime is far from perfect. As I understand it, among other things, an athlete is allowed to skip some tests.

And who do you think is playing victim?