Center for SafeSport for sexual and emotional misconduct. The upholding of the doping ban might not have any practical effect on the 63-year-old coach, who is appealing a lifetime ban handed down earlier this summer by the U.S. “The decision reaffirmed that no Nike Oregon Project athlete was ever doped, that no competition was impacted by these technical violations, and that I generally took great care to ensure that any new techniques, methods and substances were lawful under the WADA Code,” Salazar said. In a statement Thursday, he said he was pleased at the CAS decision to reject “USADA’s effort to impose a lifetime ban.” Salazar has long proclaimed he did nothing wrong. “Hopefully, this sends a powerful message that when athletes come to us with information of doping violations or other misconduct, they know we will listen to them and protect them by pursuing the evidence, no matter the power, influence, or financial resources of those in violation,” USADA CEO Travis Tygart said.Īmong Salazar’s practices, according to the USADA investigation, was sending athletes to Brown’s office to be infused with a supplement called L-carnitine at doses that surpassed allowable thresholds the coach also experimented on his sons using testosterone gels. Tipped off by Goucher and others, the USADA investigated Salazar and the running team for about six years before handing down sanctions in 2019. None of his former runners have been charged with doping violations. Salazar is the former marathon champion who, as coach of the Nike Oregon Project, trained a long list of championship distance runners including Mo Farah, Galen Rupp and, for a time, Kara Goucher.

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