Salazar gets lifetime ban for sexual, emotional misconduct
Track coach Alberto Salazar has been permanently banned by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexual and emotional misconduct. Salazar has 10 days to appeal the decision, which was handed down Monday. The SafeSport center does not reveal details of investigations.
news.yahoo.comHundreds of Nike employees march to protest its treatment of women, reports
A giant sculpture reads "Do the right thing," at the Nike headquarters on March 22, 2018 in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike employees protested the sportswear company's treatment of women on Monday, the same day Nike reopened a building at its headquarters named after disgraced running coach Alberto Salazar, according to several news reports. Nike has been criticized for its treatment of female athletes for some time. But questions surrounding Nike's treatment of women in the workplace extends even further back. In 2017, an informal survey was circulated by female employees at the company that sought to gather insight into other women's experiences with inappropriate behavior and discrimination at the company.
cnbc.comBanned coach Alberto Salazar briefed Nike CEO Mark Parker on doping violations numerous times
Banned running coach Alberto Salazar briefed Nike CEO Mark Parker on doping violations on multiple occasions, according to materials released Monday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Salazar and Dr. Jeffrey Brown, a Nike-sponsored doctor, each received a four-year ban from the sport "for orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping conduct," the USADA announced Monday. Salazar and Brown also conducted another experiment with a supplement called L-carnitine, which helps increase mitochondrial function, the panel said in its report. On December 12, 2011, Salazar sent an email to Parker, Lance Armstrong, and Tom Clarke, president of advanced innovation of Nike about his L-carnitine infusion experiment. He was the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project, a training group based at Nike's headquarters campus in Oregon.
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