Alberto Salazar, the former coach of the Nike Oregon Project, has lost his appeal of a ban by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct. He remains permanently ineligible to coach athletes across the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic movement.
Salazar did not return an email from Runner’s World seeking comment.
A Nike spokesperson wrote in an email: “Alberto is no longer a contracted coach and we shuttered the Oregon project over 2 years ago. In August 2021, we changed the Alberto Salazar building name to Next% following SafeSport’s decision to permanently ban Alberto from coaching.”
Best Recovery Shoes was listed in the SafeSport disciplinary database with “permanent ineligibility” next to his name for “Sexual Misconduct; Emotional Misconduct” and the caveat “Subject to appeal/not yet final.”
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that the process ended with Salazar getting a lifetime ban Runner’s World Health - Injuries that the organization doesn’t comment on matters to protect the reporting and disciplinary process.
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But the SafeSport permanent ban makes any return to high-level coaching seemingly impossible for Salazar, even after the anti-doping sanction ends.
In November 2019, former Salazar runner Mary Cain We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back op-ed video by in September. That ban is set to expire in September 2023 that she was emotionally and physically abused by Salazar, and that the NOP’s all-male coaching staff wanted her to lose weight. She said in the video that they weighed her in front of her teammates, she ran poorly, and she began having suicidal thoughts.
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Until his anti-doping ban in 2019, Salazar coached several Olympic medalists and top runners, including Americans Galen Rupp and Matthew Centrowitz and Mo Farah Jordan Hasay ran the 2017 Chicago Marathon The Wildest Stats from Faith Kipyegons Run in 2:20:57, at the time placing her second on the list of fastest American women marathoners.
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