USADA Report: Nike's Oregon Project Coach Violated Antidoping Rules

A confidential report written by USADA lays out in "vivid detail" the incidents involving runners who participated in the Oregon Project, a "vaunted team financed by Nike and led by" coach Alberto Salazar. The report describes a "culture of coercion, secrecy and possible medical malpractice in the Oregon Project, an effort to make distance running relevant again" internationally. Salazar has "emphatically denied violating antidoping rules." But in the report, antidoping officials "depicted Salazar as a medicine chest whose door swung open for the world-class athletes on Nike's payroll." U.S. antidoping officials "now believe that Salazar and a Texas endocrinologist administered an infusion procedure in violation of antidoping rules" (N.Y. TIMES, 5/20).