Dick Fosbury
American athletics competitor, high jumper
Alberto Salazar
American long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba
Alberto Salazaris an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school.
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About the Alberto Salazar
Alberto Salazaris an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the “Duel in the Sun”. He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.
In 2015, Salazar was named in a joint BBC Panorama and ProPublica investigation into doping allegations. In 2019, Salazar was banned for four years from athletics for doping offenses involving athletes he coached. The Nike Oregon Project was shut down in the wake of the controversy.
In January 2020, the United States Center for SafeSport placed Salazar on its temporarily banned list while it investigated allegations against him involving sexual and emotional misconduct. SafeSport permanently banned him a year and a half later, in July 2021, after it found that he had committed four violations involving emotional and sexual misconduct. In December 2021, Salazar appealed the ban in arbitration but lost, making him permanently ineligible for any activity held by the USOPC or any sport’s USOPC-recognized National Governing Body.
5 Quotes by Alberto Salazar
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If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances.
Alberto SalazarAmerican long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba
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I’ve run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I’ve won some big races and I’ve had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
Alberto SalazarAmerican long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba
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We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
Alberto SalazarAmerican long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba
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An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn’t been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
Alberto SalazarAmerican long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba
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Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn’t see any other reason to say otherwise.
Alberto SalazarAmerican long-distance running coach, long-distance runner born in Cuba