Alberto Salazar, renowned running coach who helped top Americans be more competitive in athletics before he was suspended for doping violations He was banned from sports for life last month. According to a summary of the decision reviewed by The New York Times, after a referee determined that he was more likely than not to …
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Distance running trainer Alberto Salazar was declared permanently ineligible by the US SafeSport Center on Wednesday, completing the dramatic fall of the sport’s most famous trainer, long backed financially by Nike. Salazar, 63, will not be allowed to participate in any event organized by or under the auspices of the United States Olympic and Paralympic …
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Alberto W. Vilar, a money manager with a love of opera, who used his wealth to become a prominent patron of the arts, but fell out of favor when he didn’t keep his word and eventually went to jail for defrauding clients, died at his home Saturday. Queens. He was 80 years old. His sister …
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Nike confirmed Tuesday that it has changed its name to the Alberto Salazar Building on its campus in Beaverton, Ore., a renowned distance running coach who has been banned from the sport for sexual and emotional abuse. The change is the dramatic and perhaps complete end of the relationship between Nike and Salazar, which has …
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“I’ve been told I’m very fat and ‘I have the biggest butt at the baseline,’” Yoder Begley said. Goucher, another American Olympian who once trained with the Nike Oregon Project, told The Times After meager meals were cooked by an assistant coach, he often ate more in the privacy of his room, nervous as he …
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