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Olympics 2021 - Men's 4X400!
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With no US team to root for I was looking at Jamaica to win, didn't foresee them coming in 5th and behind China... That anchor of GBR might have some sleepless nights thinking about how he gave up that race... They lost by .01 - DAMN
Who is this dumbass - can't spell, can't put together legible sentences... Must be a bot or white
Pretty cool event... France had a Black climber with Locs representing them
Man, that anchor for Italy found whatever gas he had left in the tank for that last 20... As a sports fan that was cool to see, just sucks USA was missing... GBR had this yt dude running 3rd, buddy was moving... The biggest surprise to me was seeing Jamaica finish 5th and behind China... I expect the Black athletes to have wheels, but when I see non-Blacks with wheels, can't lie, I'm impressed... To the standards that USA & JAM track has set, both men's team underperformed this Olympics, but the women held it down... Happy belated Independence Day to the Jamaican brothers on here
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Nike Coach Alberto Salazar Is Hit With 4-Year Doping Ban
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Coach Alberto Salazar was hit with a four-year ban over doping charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
John Sibley/Action Images via Reuters
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has banned Alberto Salazar, the famed track coach and former marathon champion, for four years. USADA says Salazar trafficked testosterone, infused a prohibited amount of L-carnitine and tried to tamper with doping controls.
Salazar is the head coach for long-distance running at the Nike Oregon Project, an elite program where he has worked with track stars such as Mo Farah. The ban comes after an independent panel of the American Arbitration Association decided to punish Salazar and his colleague Dr. Jeffrey Brown, a former consultant with Nike.
Salazar plans to appeal the ban; both he and Brown have denied violating anti-doping rules.
USADA informed Salazar of the allegations against him in June 2017 — some two years after athletes initially spoke out about what they said were questionable medical practices.
"The athletes in these cases found the courage to speak out and ultimately exposed the truth," said USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart. "While acting in connection with the Nike Oregon Project, Mr. Salazar and Dr. Brown demonstrated that winning was more important than the health and wellbeing of the athletes they were sworn to protect."
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Salazar disputes Tygart's assertion, saying that he is "shocked by the outcome" of the case.
"Throughout this six-year investigation my athletes and I have endured unjust, unethical and highly damaging treatment from USADA," Salazar said in a statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website.
The coach added, "I have always ensured the WADA code is strictly followed."
In a statement about the sanction, a Nike spokesperson said the ban does not implicate any of the athletes in its Oregon Project program.
"We support Alberto in his decision to appeal and wish him the full measure of due process that the rules require," the spokesperson said, adding, "Nike does not condone the use of banned substances in any manner."
As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, the Nike Oregon Project was part of the apparel company's push to make the U.S. competitive with the world's best distance runners.
"The program's high point came in 2012, when Salazar-trained runners Mo Farah of Britain and American Galen Rupp finished 1-2 in the Olympic 10,000 meters," Goldman says.
In its decision, the USADA panel said Salazar "does not appear to have been motivated by any bad intention to commit the violations." It adds:
"In fact, the Panel was struck by the amount of care generally taken by Respondent to ensure that whatever new technique or method or substance he was going to try was lawful under the World Anti-Doping Code, with USADA's witness characterizing him as the coach they heard from the most with respect to trying to ensure that he was complying with his obligations."
The panel says Salazar made "unintentional mistakes that violated the rules," and that he was "apparently motivated by his desire to provide the very best results and training for athletes under his care."
Each of the transgressions Salazar was found guilty of carries a range of possible penalties, from a temporary ban to a lifetime sanction, depending on the seriousness of the violation.
The allegations against Salazar go back nearly a decade. As the arbitration decision notes, he was in touch with now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in 2011, sending him an email about the benefits of infusing a large amount of L-carnitine — a substance that occurs naturally in red meat.
That email reads: "Lance, call me asap! We have tested it and it's amazing! You are the only athlete I'm going to tell the actual numbers to other than Galen Rupp. It's too incredible. All completely legal and natural. You will finish the Iron Man in about 16 minutes less while taking this. – Alberto."
In another message to Armstrong and executives at Nike, Salazar said that in a trial run, a 1-liter saline bag containing L-carnitine had boosted the athletic performance of his assistant.
L-carnitine is a form of an amino acid that helps the body burn fatty acids as fuel. It' not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances — but an infusion of 1 liter far exceeds the doping rules, which limit infusions to 100 mL over 12 hours.
When Brown was questioned about Salazar's email, he verified the size of the infusion. He also said it would take four to five hours to administer an infusion that large to an athlete.
This motherfucker took over for Balco. A lot of dirty Gold medalist under this guy. Goes for Hassan too
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Nike Coach Alberto Salazar Is Hit With 4-Year Doping Ban
October 1, 201911:59 AM ET
BILL CHAPPELL
Coach Alberto Salazar was hit with a four-year ban over doping charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
John Sibley/Action Images via Reuters
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has banned Alberto Salazar, the famed track coach and former marathon champion, for four years. USADA says Salazar trafficked testosterone, infused a prohibited amount of L-carnitine and tried to tamper with doping controls.
Salazar is the head coach for long-distance running at the Nike Oregon Project, an elite program where he has worked with track stars such as Mo Farah. The ban comes after an independent panel of the American Arbitration Association decided to punish Salazar and his colleague Dr. Jeffrey Brown, a former consultant with Nike.
Salazar plans to appeal the ban; both he and Brown have denied violating anti-doping rules.
USADA informed Salazar of the allegations against him in June 2017 — some two years after athletes initially spoke out about what they said were questionable medical practices.
"The athletes in these cases found the courage to speak out and ultimately exposed the truth," said USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart. "While acting in connection with the Nike Oregon Project, Mr. Salazar and Dr. Brown demonstrated that winning was more important than the health and wellbeing of the athletes they were sworn to protect."
Article continues after sponsor message
Salazar disputes Tygart's assertion, saying that he is "shocked by the outcome" of the case.
"Throughout this six-year investigation my athletes and I have endured unjust, unethical and highly damaging treatment from USADA," Salazar said in a statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website.
The coach added, "I have always ensured the WADA code is strictly followed."
In a statement about the sanction, a Nike spokesperson said the ban does not implicate any of the athletes in its Oregon Project program.
"We support Alberto in his decision to appeal and wish him the full measure of due process that the rules require," the spokesperson said, adding, "Nike does not condone the use of banned substances in any manner."
As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, the Nike Oregon Project was part of the apparel company's push to make the U.S. competitive with the world's best distance runners.
"The program's high point came in 2012, when Salazar-trained runners Mo Farah of Britain and American Galen Rupp finished 1-2 in the Olympic 10,000 meters," Goldman says.
In its decision, the USADA panel said Salazar "does not appear to have been motivated by any bad intention to commit the violations." It adds:
"In fact, the Panel was struck by the amount of care generally taken by Respondent to ensure that whatever new technique or method or substance he was going to try was lawful under the World Anti-Doping Code, with USADA's witness characterizing him as the coach they heard from the most with respect to trying to ensure that he was complying with his obligations."
The panel says Salazar made "unintentional mistakes that violated the rules," and that he was "apparently motivated by his desire to provide the very best results and training for athletes under his care."
Each of the transgressions Salazar was found guilty of carries a range of possible penalties, from a temporary ban to a lifetime sanction, depending on the seriousness of the violation.
The allegations against Salazar go back nearly a decade. As the arbitration decision notes, he was in touch with now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in 2011, sending him an email about the benefits of infusing a large amount of L-carnitine — a substance that occurs naturally in red meat.
That email reads: "Lance, call me asap! We have tested it and it's amazing! You are the only athlete I'm going to tell the actual numbers to other than Galen Rupp. It's too incredible. All completely legal and natural. You will finish the Iron Man in about 16 minutes less while taking this. – Alberto."
In another message to Armstrong and executives at Nike, Salazar said that in a trial run, a 1-liter saline bag containing L-carnitine had boosted the athletic performance of his assistant.
L-carnitine is a form of an amino acid that helps the body burn fatty acids as fuel. It' not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances — but an infusion of 1 liter far exceeds the doping rules, which limit infusions to 100 mL over 12 hours.
When Brown was questioned about Salazar's email, he verified the size of the infusion. He also said it would take four to five hours to administer an infusion that large to an athlete.
Hassan just destroyed the field in both the 5000 and 10,000meter;This motherfucker took over for Balco. A lot of dirty Gold medalist under this guy. Goes for Hassan too
She might have won the 1500 had she not employed the wrong
strategy. This mofo fucked up track and field because whatever he
was doing with EPO and other undetectable shit is now being used
in other places in Europe.
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Salazar Cloud Hangs Over Steely Hassan's Golden Olympic Double
August 7, 2021
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Sifan Hassan showed typical resilience in adding 10,000 metres Olympic gold to her 5000m title on Saturday, the night after defeat in the 1500m crushed her dream of an unprecedented treble.
The Ethiopian-born athlete who competes for her adopted country, the Netherlands, bided her time and produced her trademark last-lap kick to accelerate to victory.
In achieving the distance double, she emulated Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba's feat at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 28-year-old's steeliness is reflected in her favourite saying taken from the Koran, as she told Dutch newspaper NRC in January: "For indeed, with hardship will be ease."
Despite her success at the Tokyo Games, Hassan remains a divisive figure in the world of track and field and questions over her association with disgraced coach Alberto Salazar still dog her.
Hassan did little to make those questions go away when she chose a former assistant of Salazar's, Tim Rowberry, as her new coach.
Hassan insists she joined Salazar's now disbanded Nike-funded Oregon Project in 2016 so she could train with British distance running legend Mo Farah.
She says she saw nothing amiss with Salazar, who last month was banned for life by the United States Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct and emotional misconduct violations.
Salazar was first given a four-year ban during the 2019 world championships in Doha. Hassan duly won the 1500m/10,000m double at those championships.
"The hardest moment and pressure in my life was in Doha and I handled it," she said in July.
She did not hold back in an emotional press conference after that success, saying: "If they want to test me they can test me every single day. Every single day.
"I believe in the Oregon Project. I've seen Alberto. He's worked really hard and that is what I know."
Hassan was moulded into a tough character by a hard upbringing.
An only child raised in Ethiopia by her mother and grandmother -- her parents remained married but lived on separate farms -- she was put on a plane to the Netherlands by her mother in 2008.
Up to then her childhood appears to have been an enjoyable one.
"We didn't have a car. But we could eat, it was fun, and we could buy clothes," she said. "We actually had everything."
The traumatic incident which prompted her being sent abroad at 15 remains a mystery, and she refuses to divulge what it was.
"I have to watch out for that," she recalled. "One day I'm happy and the next day less.
"That's the nice thing about life. If everything is perfect, it would be boring."
Life was not much better in the under-age asylum seekers' home she was placed in in Zuidlaren -- she recalls crying every day.
However, after her athletic prowess was recognised, she eventually came under the wing of respected coach Honore Hoedt in 2012.
Hoedt told Volkskrant that his first impressions were of a "lanky" young woman who was "a diligent worker".
Soon Hassan was winning races while also training to be a nurse.
Hoedt noticed another trait in his young charge as she rose through the age groups.
"She can be recalcitrant," said Hoedt, who coached her till 2015, when she gained Dutch nationality.
"She couldn't handle loss. Then she locked herself up for days. A fire is ignited in her that sometimes blows in the wrong direction."
By putting her defeat in the 1500m behind her to rebound so decisively in the 10,000m, Hassan proved in Tokyo that she has matured beyond measure.
pi/gj
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You think that you write well? You are a fool. If an English man was markingWith no US team to root for I was looking at Jamaica to win, didn't foresee them coming in 5th and behind China... That anchor of GBR might have some sleepless nights thinking about how he gave up that race... They lost by .01 - DAMN
Who is this dumbass - can't spell, can't put together legible sentences... Must be a bot or white
Pretty cool event... France had a Black climber with Locs representing them
Man, that anchor for Italy found whatever gas he had left in the tank for that last 20... As a sports fan that was cool to see, just sucks USA was missing... GBR had this yt dude running 3rd, buddy was moving... The biggest surprise to me was seeing Jamaica finish 5th and behind China... I expect the Black athletes to have wheels, but when I see non-Blacks with wheels, can't lie, I'm impressed... To the standards that USA & JAM track has set, both men's team underperformed this Olympics, but the women held it down... Happy belated Independence Day to the Jamaican brothers on here
your composition, you would fail. What you are writing is not English but
you are too ignorant of the language to know that.
With being said, we just write to communicate on this forum. We do not do
it to pass the Cambridge O or A Level Certificate exam. If we tried to write
in the way the English stipulate their language to be written, there would be
only a few people here who would meet that standard. You would not be one
of those people.
Do not contest this fact because unlike some of us who had to take the same
exams as English students in England did, you cannot possibly understand
what I am saying to you. It is that simple. The English despise the language
you write in America. I know this because my English teachers, who were all
English from England, said so, all of the time.
I had to learn their language, because, unfortunately, you cannot get a sec
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I had to learn their language, and like everything else, I excelled in it.
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Women Basketball gold medal game comes on in 20mins
Much appreciation sir
The Track and Field Coverage was horrible!!! I understand it's difficult because the events are only from 10 seconds to 30 minutes. Still it sucks. I'm watching about five or six stations trying to catch the events. I still haven't seen the Women's or Men's 4x400. YouTube is deleting shit. NBC sucks.
They only show events Americans are winning
Our women ain't letting that shit happen. They are gonna dominate these women easily.
They have no answer for Brittney Griner. She's just too big and gets whatever shot she wants.
Yeah her an Aja killin them in the paint. They too big and skilled
Yeah you are right, I used a vpn to watch the Canadian and British olympic broadcast.
Even that peacock tv live morning coverage was cheesy and fluffy commentary
You see what taurasi played wit ol girl like she was a kid 
Ones family immigrated from Ghana
and ones dad is Nigerian
It explains the opening ceremony and I saw a few Naomi Osaka's
Big up and nuff respect to Shericka Jackson for stepping in at the last minute to replace Stephanie McPherson in the 4x400m final.... After running all the rounds in the 4x100 relay plus doing her individual events she must have been tired but still did a very good job in helping the team to win a bronze medal.
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Didn't realize that was her...made up for that 200m mistake...I think she would have got a medal there...but a suh it go....she did well overall this Olympics...respect to the teamBig up and nuff respect to Shericka Jackson for stepping in at the last minute to replace Stephanie McPherson in the 4x400m final.... After running all the rounds in the 4x100 relay plus doing her individual events she must have been tired but still did a very good job in helping the team to win a bronze medal.
That's the future though... we have to accept that change will happen in sports and be greatly influence by science and technology...
... even thought I accept that it will happen the main problem I have is that it's not evenly spread. Very few track venues will be updated with the new type track and also not every athlete will have the sponsorship and finance available to afford the new scientific running shoes and elite coaching....
... so until it's all evenly spread to the point where all professional and upcoming athletes enjoy the benefits of change then I won't see it as being fair.
Exactly. I want one standardized track surface all over the world. Athletes wearing the same spikes and shit like that. Records are meaningless if the conditions are so drastically different. If you run the race of your life on a slow track you're penalized. I don't like it bro
If this virus is still out of control the winter Olympics will be super trash too. The summer games were always the ratings monster. The winter games not so much. The reasoning is that america sucks in the winter events.
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