ALBERTO SALAZAR HAS lodged an appeal against a four-year ban for doping offences, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today.
Jeffrey Brown, a Texas endocrinologist who treated many of the disgraced coach’s athletes at Nike’s Oregon Project training hub in Portland, has also appealed against his suspension.
CAS said it has “registered the appeals” against decisions rendered by the American Arbitration Association, North American Court of Arbitration for Sport Panel “in which they were found to have committed anti-doping rule violations and sanctioned with a four-year period of ineligibility.”
CAS said two arbitration procedures had been opened and both men had requested more time to prepare their case.
“At this stage, it appears that the hearings in these two matters are unlikely to take place before March 2020,” said CAS.
Salazar’s doping offences include trafficking testosterone, tampering with the doping control process, and administering illicit infusions of the fat-burning substance, L-carnitine.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Last month Nike, which backed Salazar after his suspension by the US Anti-Doping Agency announced it was shutting down the Oregon Project.
Mark Parker, who at the time was Nike chief executive but has since stepped aside, said when Salazar’s ban was announced that the company would still support the coach, best known for coaching Britain’s four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah, in his appeal.
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Would lifetime bans not help get rid of cheats? Couple of years and all is forgotten seems crazy to me
@Lefty: severity of punishment doesn’t deter people its the certainity of it that does. More needs to be done to prevent drug cheats. It would be great if all sports gave 1% profit to an overreaching sports testing body that would have the faculties to test all athletes at all levels. The only way to spot it, is make sure the risk outweights the reward, in a lot of sports the chances of being caught (as long as you arnt stupid) is nearly zero.
Nothing dodgy at all here. Fair play to Nike. Another good honest family-run multi-national corporation with incredible human values and lovely clothes made with care, respect and love for the better of the environment. My heart is bleeding to hear that this one evil person has infiltrated what was such an honest business and done his best to destroy an amazing culture of athletic success and prosperity.
Zero tolerance needs to be applied going forward! The sport will be a long time regaining credibility! He is a disgrace and no self respecting athlete should ever work under him again!
Would life
Should be thrown out for life if found guilty, as should any athletes associated with him past or present…