The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Alberto Salazar blocks for four years. The coach is the boss of the controversial “Oregon project”, as one of its athletes, the German world Cup-hope Konstanze monastery helped.
Alberto Salazar, head coach of the “Oregon project”
The German Topläuferin Konstanze monastery has not helped presented your mental preparation for your first world Cup race in Doha safely. One day prior to their Start in the 5000-Meter lead, the 22-Year-old was faced with the news that the US Anti-Doping authority, USADA has blocked the controversial athletics coach Alberto Salazar because of doping violations for four years. The monastery helped was “surprised and a bit shocked,” said her Manager Dany Biegler, the German press Agency. “But it changes the Situation: Constanza is decidedly against any kind of prohibited substances. You never came into contact with it.”
Monastery halfens Trainer, so Biegler, was not Salazar, but to Pete Julian. The American was a former long-distance runner and has been working for eleven years for the “Nike Oregon Project”. The monastery helped trained since the fall of 2018 in Portland, since last spring she’s also officially a member of the Oregon project, as the only German among the eleven athletes. Since then, she has made a significant leap in performance to the top.
Konstanze monastery helped is now one of the world’s top long-distance runner interior
Four years determined
Chief of the Oregon project, the 61-year-old, Cuban-born Alberto Salazar. Former US marathon runners had founded the project in 2001, to end the domination of Africa on long-haul routes. The USADA determined for 2015 against Salazar. The announced period of four years is justified on the grounds of breaches of the world Anti-Doping Code. The USADA accuses Salazar, among other things, to have his charges with testosterone and forbidden infusions doped. He also tried to tamper with doping controls. In addition to Salazar also Jeffrey Brown, doctors of the Oregon project was blocked for four years. Brown is regarded as a specialist for hormone treatments.
Exemplary Athlete, Mo Farah
Previous athletes of the project had brought to the doping procedure. So the Ex had accused long-distance runner Kara Goucher to their Ex-Coach Salazar to have her after the birth of your child is a thyroid medication given for you to take. According to the USADA, athletes of Oregon should be a project in short intervals by Infusion, L-carnitine administered to have been a means by which the energy metabolism can be increased. So far, the most successful protege of Salazar, the British Superstar Mo Farah, the coach led to four Olympic victories, before Farah left in the autumn of 2017, the project was “not because of the doping allegations”, such as Farah, at the time, underscore.
Salazar with his protégés, Galen Rupp (l.) from the USA and Britain’s Mo Farah (R) (in the case of the world Cup in London in 2012)
“Border-doping”
“I think that in this centre, everything is kind of, been at some point been positively related with performance increase, will be applied professionally”, said Professor Fritz Sörgel, head of the Institute for biomedical and Pharmaceutical research in Nuremberg, months ago the DW and then spoke of the “border-doping”: “by that I mean that, for example, infusions are conducted correctly according to the WADA-regulations: not more than 100 milliliters per twelve hours. You go here to the limits.”
How far optimization can go?
So some of the runners live in Portland, in apartments, in which, with Filters of the oxygen percentage of the breathing air is reduced. With this method, hypoxic conditions such as at high altitude are simulated, with the result that the body produces more red blood cells. “In professional sports optimization is common,” said Doping-expert Sörgel. “Who optimized his training methods and also, obviously, his supply of substances of various kinds, has an advantage. It is the question of how one stands, this is more of a moral question.”