INTERNATIONAL: American coach, Alberto Salazar, had his four-year suspension for a series of doping violations upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday. The 63-year-old Salazar who coached some of the world's top long-distance runners and who guided Britain's Mo Farah to Olympic glory, was banned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in 2019.
He was banned due to "orchestrating and facilitating" doping as head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. It’s an elite camp designed primarily to develop US endurance athletes. Together with Salazar being banned is an endocrinologist, Jeffrey Brown. The US Anti-Doping Agency has said that at the time of the suspension, Salazar trafficked the banned performance-enhancing substance testosterone to multiple athletes. He also coached American Olympian Matthew Centrowitz.
After four years of investigation, the Agency reported that Salazar was also found to have tampered or attempted to tamper with Nike Oregon Project athletes' doping control process. Salazar won three consecutive New York City Marathons from 1980 before coaching a number of Olympians.
