Less than two weeks after Alberto Salazar received his four-year ban, Nike has announced the team will be shuttered.
since the ban was announced on September 30. Hasay added that any decisions about her future will come in the days following the marathon.“I’m just kind of focused on the race now,” she said in the October 8 interview. “Then we’re going to sit down and figure everything out.”
In deciding USADA’s case against Salazar, two independent three-member arbitration panels found that Salazar “trafficked testosterone, a banned performance-enhancing substance, administered a prohibited IV infusion, and engaged in tampering to attempt to prevent relevant information about their conduct from being learned by USADA.”
With Salazar at the helm, Nike launched the Oregon Project in 2001 with the stated goal of making American distance runners competitive again on the world stage. Among the U.S. runners who had their best performances while members are Rupp, a two-time Olympic medalist ;
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