The Portland-based Nike Oregon Project, world-renowned coach Alberto Salazar and Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp were hit with doping allegations Wednesday.
Perhaps the most serious allegation is that Rupp, a graduate of Portland’s Central Catholic High School and the University of Oregon, and the U.S. record-holder in the 10,000 meters, has taken the banned drug testosterone since high school.
The allegations, largely circumstantial and anecdotal, are contained in stories by investigative reporters David Epstein for the website ProPublica and Mark Daly for the BBC.
The BBC also aired a documentary containing the allegations Wednesday in Britain.
Both stories include blanket denials from Rupp, Salazar and Mo Farah, a member of the Oregon Project and the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
Salazar’s statement reads, in part: ‘I am very disappointed that the BBC and ProPublica and their ‘reporters’ have allowed themselves to be used by individuals with agendas and have engaged in such inaccurate and unfounded journalism. Rather than present the facts, they opted for sensationalism and innuendo.”
Rupp’s statement, in part, reads: ‘I expressly told these reporters that these allegations were not true and their sources admit they have no evidence, yet they print ‘suspicions’ attacking me and sullying my reputation.”
The stories allege at least seven athletes or staff members who have been part of the Oregon Project have gone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency with concerns.
The four who went on the record are former Oregon Project assistant Steve Magness, husband-and-wife distance runners Adam Goucher and Kara Goucher, and massage therapist John Stiner.
Magness worked for the Oregon Project for about 18 months. He left prior to the 2012 Olympics. Both he and Salazar said at the time that his departure was a mutual decision.
The Gouchers trained as part of the Oregon Project between 2004 and 2011. They enjoyed some of their best professional seasons under Salazar’s tutelage. Kara Goucher won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 2007 World Outdoor Championships.
Magness said that while working for the Oregon Project he came across records that documented Rupp’s use of testosterone medication and prednisone that dated to Rupp’s time at Central Catholic. Prednisone is sometimes used to treat asthma.
Stiner alleged that he found testosterone medication in Salazar’s condo in Park City, Utah, several years ago while the Oregon Project was training at altitude. The massage therapist said Salazar told him the medication was for his personal use because of a heart problem.
Neither Rupp, one of the most drug-tested athletes in track & field, nor any member of the Oregon Project ever has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Neither story alleges otherwise.
The stories contain allegations that Salazar encouraged the use of thyroid and asthma medications to enhance performance. They also contain allegations that Salazar manipulated therapeutic use exemptions, which allow use of banned substances under medical supervision to treat specific health problems.
Rupp has asthma, and has run parts of some races at Hayward Field in Eugene wearing a surgical mask when grass pollen counts have been high.
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What goes unmentioned is that Mo Farah has two immigrant brothers in Britain as well, Omar and Ahmed. I had never heard of them, but commenter Alastair J. Roberts points us toward coverage of them from the Daily Mail:
Ahmed Farah, 25, is facing being deported from Britain back to Somalia
Was jailed in 2010 for his part in a knife raid in Southall, west London in 2010
Reported that he is being held at Dungavel Detention Centre in Lanarkshire
Is now awaiting an immigration tribunal after an earlier case collapsed
Moved to Britain from Somalia 23 years ago with his older brother Mo
* Like many people, I believe that Farah is just another product of the Alberto Salazar Doping School. The Wada report was v beneficial for him as it derailed the investigation into his links with Salazar. Suspiciously beneficial.
* Mohamed Muktar Jama “Mo” Farah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Farah
It looks like the politically correct style-book demands that Muslim names be obscured if possible with anglicized names to keep sheep asleep.
Just like Munich gunman David Sonboly turned out to be named Ali.
This reminds me of the many years that major media managed to keep BHO’s middle name taboo and unspoken on major news outlets.
I recall it wasn’t until Anne Coulter referred to him as Barack Hussein Obama on Fox News sometime early in 2008 campaign (perhaps late 2007) that I had ever heard it uttered.
A truly remarkable feat considering that he had been in the Senate for years and had been mentioned as presidential candidate since winning his seat in 2004.
* Britain has millions of Indians, Pakis, and Banglas. They’re about 5% of the UK’s population.
How many medals have they won?
* I believe a casual look at Somalia will dispense with the notion that a genetic advantage in long distance running relates to our modern concept of a nation’s “greatness” in any significant way.
These imports will never outrun… a car, a jet, a guided missile. You can put these athletes on a running machine, and it will never power… an Apple computer factory.
* What I hate about the immigration debate is that the open borders side gets to point to a gold medal winning immigrant and proclaim he is representative of immigration, and thus we need more.
When the restrictionists produce many more examples of immigrants gone bad, such as those who’ve committed murder, rape and terror, they are told those are statistically insignificant, and thus are not to be factored into the debate.
If you are going to dismiss murderers, rapists and terrorists as insignificant to any discussion on immigration, then you cannot consider gold medal winners or founders of companies. They are orders of magnitude fewer compared to the former. That this is allowed to take place is proof of who controls the microphone.
* Not only is Barack Hussein Obama America’s first Negro president, he is the first U.S president who does not have a European name. His first, middle, and last name are all of Non European origin. His name does not exist in the WASP, French, or Iberian Conquistador world which is where New World Blacks got their names from.
Will America one day ever elect a Negro president with a European name?
Or will our second future Black U.S president also have an exotic sounding Arabic or African name?
* What I cannot understand is why isn’t Mo Farah happy to represent the land of his fathers, his ancestors, his own flesh and blood, culture, history – everything – Somalia is a unique and special nation, its people being a rare fusion of Arab and African blood, something Mo Farah should be intensely proud of, and instead represent a nation of which he has no connection of blood, soil, birth, history, culture, only happening to alight on that nation as part of generalized scam to increase his material standard of living.
In a way, Mo Farah is spitting on his ancestors.
* Roger Pielke Jr., whose work on climate stuff I very much like, should stick to climate issues. Is Roger going to give up his sweet gig at CU-Boulder and be replaced by an immigrant? Why not? He isn’t a racist is he? Don’t immigrants make our country great? Doesn’t Roger want to make our country great? What kind of American is he, anyway? Roger tell me you aren’t some kind of crazy anti-Trumper? Roger isn’t both anti-immigrant and anti-American, I hope! Why are there so many white guys, and so few immigrants, teaching in academia? It isn’t a big anti-immigrant conspiracy, is it? I am sick of hearing how immigration “makes us great.” This is BS happy PC talk. I’m not an immigrant, my parents and grandparents were not immigrants, my family is not immigrants, I did not go to school with immigrants, and through my career I have worked with just a handful of immigrants. It is decidedly NOT immigrants that make our country great. I believe if you look at the stats (Roger), they mainly impose huge costs on welfare systems, increases in crime, increases in congestion, lowered school scores, lowered wages. There are 50 others that readers of this site are familiar with and that I don’t need to list. WRT the “medal count,” I cannot tell you how inconsequential I view that particular stat. I care as much about that as I care about the current air temperature in Tierra del Fuego. Go back to climate Roger, see what you’ve done!
* So now it’s the Olympic medal count that makes America great? Friends, this is 4th-grade mentality. I am surprised that someone as smart as Roger P J and who should know better, gushes like this. It is embarrassing. The “medal count” is essentially meaningless, I mean, who really cares? It does not a damned thing for jobs, wages, foreign diplomacy, quality of life, blah blah blah blah. It means not one damned thing other than a ‘medal count.’ Hell if it means we imported a zillion east Africans so that we could win an extra medal in the 10,000m run, it probably is a bad thing for most everyone except the east Africans who moved here. These medal count people sound like elementary school children. They seem to think it would be totally cool to have the entire world move here, and then we will win every Olympic medal and show those Russians whose country is Top Dog? This stupidity and childishness boggles my mind, but then again it is connected with our mainstream media types, who generally have a 12-year old girl mentality and are not the sharpest knives in the shed (humor).
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Secure attachment is classified by children who show some distress when their caregiver leaves but are able to compose themselves and do something knowing that their caregiver will return. Children with secure attachment feel protected by their caregivers, and they know that they can depend on them to return. John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth developed a theory known as attachment theory after inadvertently studying children who were patients in a hospital at which they were working. Attachment theory explains how the parent-child relationship emerges and provides influence on subsequent behaviors and relationships. Stemming from this theory, there are four main types of attachment: secure attachment, ambivalent attachment, avoidant attachment and disoriented attachment.[1]
Ambivalent attachment is defined by children who become very distressed when their caregiver leaves, and they are not able to soothe or compose themselves. These children cannot depend on their caregiver(s) to be there for them. This is a relatively infrequent case with only a small percentage of children in the United States affected.[2] Avoidant attachment is represented by children who avoid their caregiver, showing no distress when the caregiver leaves. These children react similarly to a stranger as do they with their caregiver. This attachment is often associated with abusive situations. Children who are reprimanded for going to their caregiver will stop seeking help in the future. Disoriented attachment is defined by children who have no consistent way to manage their separation from and reunion with the attachment figure. Sometimes these children appear to be clinically depressed. These children are often present in studies of high-risk samples of severely maltreated babies, but they also appear in other samples.[3]
Children who have a secure attachment to their primary caregiver will grow to have higher self-esteem as well as better self-reliance. Additionally, these children tend to be more independent and have lower reported instances of anxiety and depression. These children are also able to form better social relationships.
Because Jerry is OK with himself, he more easily forms bonds with others. Because George is not OK with himself and terribly anxious about his attachments, he drives people away.
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REPORT: Britain’s Lynsey Sharp has commented on reports of multiple intersex athletes in the Olympic women’s 800m final, saying there were “obvious” rivals who made competing “difficult”.
Caster Semenya – who has sparked controversy over her hyperandrogenism, meaning her testosterone levels are higher than most women and more similar to men’s – won gold last night amid criticisms over the fairness of the race.
Sharp spoke out about the “difficulty” of competing with “the obvious” athletes in what she has previously called “two separate races”.
South African Caster, 25, was followed by Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and Kenya’s Margaret Wambui – with Sharp finishing sixth, in a personal best of one minute 57.69 seconds.
Before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Sharp told The Daily Telegraph, there were “obvious” athletes with heightened testosterone amid rumours that there were two more hyperandrogenous competitors running in last night’s final.
“Everyone can see it’s two separate races so there’s nothing I can do,” she said earlier this summer.
“If you take away the obvious ones it’s actually really competitive,” she added. “For me, it’s not a new thing running against those girls. I’ve competed against Caster since 2008 so it’s nothing new for me.”
Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates after she won in the women’s 800 metres final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, August 19, 2009. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (GERMANY SPORT ATHLETICS) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE
THE GUARDIAN: Indignation was swelling in Semenya’s breast. And when she let it rise, what poured forth was more than extraordinary. Asked how, exactly, she felt she had made a difference to her sport she replied: “I think it is all about loving one another. It’s not about discriminating against people. It is not about looking at how people look, how they speak, how they run, it is not about being muscular. It is all about sport. When you walk out of your apartment you think about performing, you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.”
So many South Africans have united behind Semenya, using the twitter hashtag #handsoffcaster. Listening to her talk it was clear they are motivated by much more than chauvinism.
Inspiring as Semenya’s words were, the truth is that her competitors don’t all think like she does. Britain’s Lynsey Sharp, who finished sixth, was congratulated on Twitter by her team-mate, Nigel Levine, who wrote “Happy for Lynsey Sharp for coming 3rd in women 800m”.
Sharp, who wrote a paper on Semenya while she was studying at law school, has seemed to struggle to contain her emotions this week. On the BBC, Paula Radcliffe explained why she felt Sharp was so upset. “However hard she goes away and trains, however hard Jenny Meadows goes and trains, they are never going to be able to compete with that level of strength and recovery that those levels of elevated testosterone brings.”
Radcliffe said that Semenya and the other hyperandrogenic women should either “take the medication to suppress the levels, or they choose to have an operation or they choose not to compete”. Incredible as this sounds, Radcliffe is right that several hyperandrogenic athletes have undergone major surgery at the behest of athletics officials.
In 2013 it was revealed that four young female athletes from developing countries, all with atypically high but entirely natural levels of testosterone, were sent to a clinic in France where doctors proposed removing their gonads and partially removing their clitorises. All four agreed, and a year later they returned to competition.
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Steve Sailer writes: “During the Olympics you suddenly hear Human Biodiversity arguments in favor of More Immigration. After all, Americans are too genetically pathetic to medal in distance running, so we should just hire East African mercenaries to run for the USA the way Persian Gulf states do.”
Comments at Steve Sailer:
* The men’s 100m times (six under 10 seconds, winner at 9.81) were about the same as in the 1991 World’s Championship in Tokyo (six under 10 seconds, winner at 9.86), so that suggests that drug testing is currently fairly effective at preventing Great Leaps Forward like Ben Johnson and Flo-Jo.
* [Matt] Centrowitz’s dad is, not surprisingly, white. Mrs. Centrowitz was a runner with a fine track name — Bannister — from British Guyana. She could be a mixture of up to four races: white, black and two kinds of Indians.
* Maybe, Israel should start adding some Ethiopians and West Indians to THEIR track and field team. After all, how many medals did Israel win in Track and Field?
* In fairness, Israel did import a great many Ethiopians, an undertaking which American Jews continue to find thrilling, but Israeli Jews tend, in private, to regret.
Liberals, consciously if not always subconsciously, really do believe all the stuff they say about race. It is the holiest of all the holy doctrines of their religion. Most conservatives follow the same religion, albeit with much less enthusiasm, akin to Catholics who only go to Mass a couple times a year, never go to confession, eat meat on Fridays, etc.
If some other lost Jewish tribe were to be discovered in Africa, liberal American Jews would want them to likewise be airlifted to Israel. Many conservative, Trump-voting American Jews would want the same, if only to deploy as a talking point.
* Other African tribes in the wake of the Falasha have tried to get into Israel, with no success in Israel, not surprisingly, but also with little support from American Jews, who seem to have lost interest once Israel acquired one set of black tokens.
For some reason, the very intelligent concept of Diminishing Marginal Returns applies to immigration into Israel, but not to immigration into America.
* Does anyone really care about the Summer Olympics anymore? I recall seeing more ads and promos for the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi than this one; because there were more photogenic and sponsor friendly clean cut young White men and women likely to medal or at least compete for a medal.
Usain Bolt is probably the most impressive and fun to watch sprinter I’ve seen; and I can’t recall any commercials featuring him. Lindsey Vonn has a commercial. Meanwhile retired Peyton Manning still is making commercials.
The US could import half of Ethiopia and Kenya and it would not make a difference, fit soccer moms in yoga pants don’t want to buy stuff endorsed by either a Caster Semanya or a bunch of East Africans. They want plausibly idealized versions of themselves, like say Kerri Walsh Jennings of bikini beach volleyball fame. The US male interest in distance running or track in general is about zero. The NFL makes what, north of $4 billion a year just in TV revenues? How much does Track and Field make? Around $10 million maybe?
* I was watching the Women’s 800M when my wife walked in …..I pointed out Caster Semenya and Margaret Wambui and told my wife that this was a handicap race where some men could compete against women. She bought it. When I told her that Caster and Margaret were actually women she scoffed, “Yeah, right.” So, do we import runners like Caster and Margaret or just transition some slower East Africans. And with Michael Phelps probably retiring for good, can we outfit a dolphin with prosthetic arms and throw it in the pool. Silly comments, but what I really want to say is, why is any of this really important. It is because one day the NYT invalidates HBD and the next they tell you we need some so we can compete against East African runners, but why? The NYT also rails against national pride, so why would we need to best anyone at anything just to be proud.
* Immigration may cause us to disastrously spiral downward in terms of crime, poverty, disease, environmental disaster, overpopulation, and global competitiveness in nearly every area, but we’ll have more Olympic Medals! Every four years! Or something.
Of course, if there is more poverty, we won’t have as many resources to devote to athletic training. Not to mention, our athletes would likely be less healthy. And more crime also puts them more at risk. But Diversity!
* Usain Bolt has said in many ways that he is a devoted Christian – I have no idea if he is a real Christian (my guess is that he is – the Miraculous Medal is not something many phonies want to wear – but I might be wrong, the fastest man in the world might have reasons to pretend to be a Christian when he is not, although I certainly hope that is not the case); in any event, he seems to be in the small group that includes, among others, Mariano Rivera (who would be Jeter-level famous – a similar number of World Series rings – if he were a womanizer like Jeter) and Tebow and Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin, that is, those who walk the walk (in each case, they may not be sincere, but they seem to be). Those guys (the Christian males and Palin, the Christian wife) are hated at a level that is hard to understand, and the ad industry and the media industry are afraid of them.
* This might make you think better of Bolt. He is being interviewed by what appears to be a Spanish language reporter. During the interview, which is on the track at Rio, the US anthem begins for a medal ceremony. Bolt stops talking and faces the flag. The reporter at first tries to keep talking then realizes Bolt won’t speak until the anthem is finished.
* As a relatively skinny white guy I’ve always wondered why a significant sub-section of north European whites are thin ectomorphs. Ectomorphs aren’t particularly suited for farming and heavy labouring, and are more likely to die from cold and famine.
In hot climates ectomorphs handle the heat better, and are better suited to activities like hunting and tracking small game, but they seem out of place in cold northern climates. Perhaps they are primarily the result of interbreeding with Mediterranean whites?
* 1) Of the three major body types, ectomorphs are (considered by most to be) the most sexually attractive women and (ditto) the second-most sexually attractive men. There is therefore a very strong sexual selection factor for ectomorph characteristics.
2) Europeans developed, relatively early, sophisticated methods of farming and keeping warm during the winter, and, unlike other groups who formed early, sedentary civilizations, continually improved their farming and architecture.
In doing so, they virtually eliminated the environmental selection factor against ectomorph builds, to the point where it was easily outweighed by the sexual selection factor in favor of them. Compare the similarly-ectomorphic people in cold parts of East Asia.
European civilization’s elimination of environmental selection factors is probably a big part of why whites are generally considered the most attractive people, including/especially by other races. It’s also probably a big part of why genetic diseases are continually increasing in frequency.
3) Ectomorphs are just the default/average body type, whereas the others likely have to do with recessive genes and/or epigenetics.[*] It’s obscured by adults who get into weightlifting or Big Macs, but think back to high school — there were the jocks, the fat kids, and then everyone else.
[*] Genes that are latent but may be expressed later in life at a random point or in response to some trigger. Think asthma and allergies; it’s also the most plausible current theory for the cause of homosexuality.
4) It’s not often discussed, being rather inconvenient for obvious reasons, but Europe used to be much warmer than it is now. The Romans had vineyards in Northern England and imported lions from Russia; we keep finding Viking villages buried under the ice as the Greenland glaciers melt (contemporary texts establish pretty definitively that the name “Greenland” was assigned in earnest).
* Why don’t we import racially superior immigrants to replace the entire NY Times staff and newsroom? Are they implying their white writers are superior to non-white non-immigrant writers?
* It’s Sunday morning and the Men’s Marathon is on. At the 35 km mark a white American, Galen Rupp, is one of the three leaders.
The BBC announcer had this to say:
“It is possible for Western athletes to compete alongside the mights of the East Africans – they’re human beings, they’re not machines, and if they can work hard, so can our athletes.
. . . I’m so pleased to see Galen Rupp up with in the mix in the medals because it sends the right signal to western-based distance runners that with the right amount of hard work there’s no reason you can’t be in the mix for a major medal come an Olympic games or major championship.”
When he finished talking the Kenyan and Ethiopian pulled away from Rupp. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – Rupp got the bronze, just missing out on silver.
If only Rupp had worked harder . . .
* American Jewry has Israel over a barrel, but we basically never see them force Israel to do anything “liberal” that they push here. Stop electing people well to the right of (and far more nationalist than) Trump? Nope. Open borders? Nope. Stop building gigantic border walls? Nope. Diversity mania? Nope. End to Israeli Apartheid? Nope. End to Jewish Colonialism and Jewish Supremacy? Nope. Justice for the Palestinians? Nope. Affirmative action for Arabs and Palestinians? Nope. Stop shelling Palestinians every few years? Nope. Arab hope-n-change head of state in Israel? Nope. Media as open sewer? I dunno, but I doubt it.
Few thousand blacks who get treated like crap (I’m being kind)? Not really blowing my skirt up.
American Jewry has more power over Israel than they have over the US, but, not much in the way of results.
Unless you realize American Jewish leftism is phony, Jewish Supremacy (“Is It Good For The Jews?”) in disguise. That you’re seeing divergent aims, not performance. Then you realize there is no curious, sudden, selective ineffectiveness – reality makes sense again.
It’s not like American Jewry even makes much noise about this, never mind cutting off the purse strings. How many other issues can you think of that 1) Annoy Jews, and 2) Jews don’t complain about?
* The “black Hebrews” are not Jews. Judaism is a club; every crackhead in the Bronx doesn’t get to say if they are in the club because they got rejected by the NOI or whatever. Blacks who join the club according to the club’s rules, are in the club. There’s not many because you basically can’t join the club if your IQ is below 100. Disparate Impact wins again.
Related question, there are black cults who claim that they are the only real Muslims, black cults who claim they are the only real Jews; are there black cults who claim they are the only real Christians?
* In medieval England, body types tended to match your social caste. The worker class, the drawers of water and hewers of wood, namely your farmers, were endomorphs. They looked like the bulky peasants out of a painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder. They have the steady physical endurance you need for farming. The mesomorphs were the warrior caste, the knights. They hit hard but tire more quickly than the endomorphs. But the rulers were the ectomorphs. Go look at pictures of the British titled aristocracy both today and back then, and you’ll be surprised at how many of them are skinny, at least up to their mid-thirties. If you look at old paintings of the Plantagenets–at least the ones considered to be the most accurate–you’ll be surprised to see that they were ectomorphs. The reason women chase ectomorphs is that even in today’s society, ectomorphs are not lower class. They tend to be at least upper-middle class, so women who marry them are more likely to be marrying money and influence, or eventual money and influence as the ectomorph males work their way up their chosen career path. By and large, ectomorphs are clever, and they know how to say the right things and make things work for them, given enough time and experience.
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