June 2015 Writers of President’s Message America Welcome to Gerlinger Hall We moved our annual Awards Breakfast to campus this year – the Old World (Founded June 7, 1973) charm of Gerlinger Hall, built in 1919 – and it was a hit. Fifty people were on PRESIDENT hand on Friday morning, June 12, for breakfast, presentations and two 15-foot Jack Pfeifer, 6129 N. pole vaulters. Lovely St., Portland, OR 97203. Office/home: 917- 579-5392. Email: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT Doug Binder. Email: [email protected]. Contents Phone: 503-913-4191. TREASURER P. 1 President’s Message Tom Casacky, P.O. Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558. P. 2 TAFWA Awards Phone: 818-321-3234. P. 11 Bill Miller Passes Email: [email protected] P. 13 Merrell Noden Passes SECRETARY/ P. 15 IAAF World Youth Credentialing AWARDS CHAIR Don Kopriva, 5327 New- P. 16 Andrew Goodman port Drive, Lisle IL 60532. P. 21 Race Lotteries. Are They Legal? Home: 630-960-3049. Cell: 630-712-2710. P. 26 The Mystery of Tim Danielson Email: donkopriva777@ P. 30 and the Tacoma Running Scene aol.com P. 33 Steve Sutton Remembers Bruce Jenner NEWSLETTER EDITOR P. 34 Minority Coaches Condemn Eligibility Changes Kim Spir, University of Portland, 5000 N. P. 36 David Oliver Fires His Coach Willamette Blvd., P. 39 Eugene Running Tours Portland, OR 97203. Work: 503-943-7314. P. 42 Pro Publica: Salazar and Drug Rules Email: kim.spir@gmail. P. 52 Mark Daly Becomes A Drug Cheat to Test the System com P. 57 Lauren Fleshman Questions Salazar’s Asthma FAST Drug Recommendations Dave Johnson. Email: [email protected] P. 61 Salazar and Prozac Phone: 215-898-6145. P. 63 Youth Runner Feature: Ella Donaghu WEBMASTER P. 64 Partial Fixtures List Michael McLaughlin. Email: supamac@comcast. net. Phone: 815-529- 8454. We were also fortunate enough to have three guest speakers – Kim McManus, vice president of the , filling in for the president, Erin Regali; Tom Heinonen, the retired head coach of the Oregon women’s team, and Vin Lananna, the president of TrackTown.

Heinonen, on hand to impart the legacy of Gerlinger, took that opportunity not to regale us with stories of how the building was once used for women’s athletics but instead to point out something much more important. It was the set for a scene in the classic movie “Animal House,” much of which was filmed on the Oregon campus in 1978. It was, in fact, the sorority house where Frank learns that his “fiancée,” Fawn Leibowitz, has died in a kiln accident. Honest. Tom’s office can be seen in the back- ground, shuttered in pink curtains. Awards • USTFCCCA Tom Lewis, of the U.S. Track & Cross Country Coaches Association, presented that group’s annual media award to Jake Most, of the University of Kentucky. The USTFCCCA gra- ciously helps underwrite the cost of our Breakfast. • Bud Greenspan Memorial Award for Documentary Film First announced at our Winter get-together in New York in February, the plaque was presented in person to Sterling Noren, the director, who drove down from on his motorcycle to accept for his film “Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco,” the late ultramarathoner who was the basis of the bestselling book “Born to Run.” Noren showed a 3-minute clip and answered questions. • Pinkie Sober Award for Past Excellence in Track & Field Announcing Af- ter praising the namesake of the award for being his own inspiration, Bob Hersh, the initial recipient of this award, presented this year’s award to the late Jack O’Reilly, longtime announcer at the IC4A, the Heps and the Penn Relays. O’Reilly’s fellow Philadelphian, Dave Johnson, the director of the Penn Relays, accepted on behalf of O’Reilly and his family. • Scott Davis Award for Track & Field Announcing Won by Paul Swangard, the current home announcer at . Swangard praised Davis for being his mentor. Presented by Dave Johnson. • Adam Jacobs Award for Excellence in Track & Field Blogging To George Brose and Roy Mason for the history-based blog Onceuponatimeinthevest.com. Neither was on hand to ac- cept. The blog, Brose told me by phone, began in the ‘80s as snail mail, then went online five years ago. The title is a takeoff on the Clint Eastwood movie. It is a series of examinations of back issues of Track & Field News magazine, beginning in 1952, and readers’ responses to that. Brose, 72, used to live in Ohio, was a miler at Oklahoma U. and now lives in Courtenay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ma- son, 76, lives in Ukiah, Calif. They are currently working on the T&FN issue of June 1965. “We figure if we make it to ’70,” Brose told me, “we’ll pack it in.” • Rich Clarkson Award for Excellence in Track & Field Photography Present- ed by Clarkson himself to Thomas Boyd, of The Oregonian. Boyd has also been a photographer for the Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) and the Eugene Register-Guard. • Sam Skinner Award for Exemplary Cooperation with Track & Field Jour- nalists Presented to Lance Harter, head women’s coach at the University of Arkansas. Harter, a 1972 graduate of Texas Tech, previously coached at Smoky Hill HS in Denver and Cal Poly/SLO. • James O. Dunaway Memorial Award for Excellence in Track & Field Jour- nalism This award, previously named for the New York newspaperman Jesse Abramson, has been renamed for Jim Dunaway, who passed away earlier this year in Austin, Texas. Dunaway was a legend- ary reporter and newsman, mostly as a freelance for The New York Times, as well as a devoted sup- porter of TAFWA, serving several terms as president. The first winner of the resulting Dunaway Award is Steve Ritchie, a freelance himself for many years for the Statesman-Journal in nearby Salem. Ritchie TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - June 2015 also has his own website, steveritchieontrack.com, and has been the head track coach at Kennedy HS in Mt. Angel, Ore., for the past 18 years. He was Class 2A girls Coach of the Year in Oregon this season, as a matter of fact, so the Ritchie family awards display case is filling up. Ritchie, who lives in Silverton, is also president of the Benedictine Foundation, which benefits the Queen of Angels Monastery in Mt. Angel.

Demi Payne (Stephen F. Austin) and (Arkansas), first and second respectively in Thursday evening’s dramatic women’s pole vault, were on hand and graciously answered questions about their event and rivalry.

Vin Lananna made a presentation on behalf of TrackTown and responded to questions about upcom- ing plans for the World Indoor in 2016 in Portland, the World Outdoor in 2021 in Eugene, and the anticipated overhaul of Hayward Field. He said that the target capacity for the World Outdoor meet is 30,000, less than half of which is to be permanent seating.

Social Event Sunday morning, June 28 A social event for members only will be held on Sunday morning, June 28, the final day of the USATF Nationals, at the home of members Tom and Janet Heinonen in Eugene, starting at 9 AM. A light breakfast and beverages will be served. The address is 1012 E. 21st Ave., not far from Hayward Field, the intersection of 21st and Harris.

FAST Annuals The 2015 edition is in our possession. Some were distributed in person at the NCAA meet, and the rest are being mailed as we speak. If you want an additional copy etc., additional copies will be available in Eugene during Nationals.

For 2016, we are in preliminary negotiations to have the Annual ready for distribution by the end of February, in time for the US and World Indoor meets, both of which will be held in Portland next March. Stay tuned.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - June 2015 Previous Page Left to right: Curtis An- derson, Sterling Noren and Jack Pfeifer, Lance Harter.

Current Page Upper left: Robert and Weldon Johnson of Lets- run.com with Mark Cullen. Upper right: Rich Clark- son and Thomas Boyd. Middle left: Seig Lind- strom and Dave Johnson. Lower left: Sam Seems and Fred Bauer. Lower right: Bob Hersh, Keith Conning and Tom Casacky.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - June 2015 Upper photo: Gerlinger Hall.

Lower left: Mark Cullen and Lloyd Stephens.

Lower right: Ed Fox.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - June 2015 Upper left: Dave Johnson, Bob Hersh and the Pinkie Sober Award. Upper right: Cheryl Treworgy and Jake Most, Kentucky SID. Middle right: Vin Lananna. Lower left: Cheryl Treworgy, Steve Ritchie, Paul Merca. Lower right: Mike Jay. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - June 2015 Upper left: Sandi Morris and Demi Payne, NCAA wom- en’s PV runner-up and winner. Upper right: Bob Hersh. Middle right: Sterling Noren, the director, who drove down from Seattle on his motorcycle to accept for his film “Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco.” Lower left: Paul Swangard. Lower right: Tom Heinonen.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - June 2015 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - June 2015 Upper left: Keith Conning. Upper right: Frank Zarnowski. Lower left: Tom Lewis. Lower right: Jon Alquist and Art Morgan.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - June 2015 Upper: Jeff Erickson, Stephen E. Austin. Lower left: Jon Hendershott, Steven Ritchie, Don Steffens.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page - 10- June 2015 New Yorker Bill Miller dies at 91

Two New York Times veterans: Bill Miller, left, and Frank Litsky, right, at the 2014 Penn Relays. (Spir) Bill Miller, one of the lions of track journalism in New York City for the last 70 years, died of heart failure in Nyack, N.Y., on May 20. He had been admitted to the hospital one day earlier.

Miller, a medical textbook publisher by profession, reported on scholastic track and field as a freelance writer for The New York Times beginning in 1947.

He was an excellent runner in his own right, competing in the quarter-mile for La Salle Academy, a Jesuit school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s, and for Manhattan College after serving in the Pacific during World War II.

Miller was a raconteur of the old school, sometimes taking 15 minutes to tell a story but disappointing his listeners that it wasn’t longer.

He once told this reporter a long baseball story that began with his days growing up in the Bronx as a boy, when he could walk to both Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds to watch the Giants and his be- loved Yankees. Eventually, he said that he finally persuaded his parents to let him take multiple trains and see his first game at Ebbets Field, and he dropped in the name Johnny Vander Meer. Bill said Yes, his first game in Brooklyn had been on June 15, 1938, the day Vander Meer threw the second of his

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 11 - June 2015 consecutive no-hitters as the Reds shut out the Dodgers, 6-0. A teenaged Bill Miller was there to see it. Miller’s favorite week of the year was the last week of April, when he journeyed to Philadelphia to run in, or work at, the Penn Relays. He ran the mile relay at Penn in the 1930s and worked at the Relays for The Times virtually every decade after that, writing the prep sidebar to accompany the lead stories by his friends Frank Litsky, Neil Amdur, Jim Dunaway and other legendary New York track writers. Bill knew them all.

For The Times, he wrote hundreds of track articles, on deadline, finally landing on the front page of the Sports section when Alan Webb became the first schoolboy to break 4 minutes in the mile indoors. He began writing about track as a teenager for his school paper at La Salle and later for the school paper at Manhattan.

As his health declined in recent years, Miller wasn’t having it. Frustrated when he couldn’t recall a name, he asked for help. When he couldn’t negotiate parallel parking any longer on the narrow streets of Washington Heights, his friend Jamie Kempton became his designated driver and brought him to his home away from home, the New York Armory, to continue attending meets and see his hundreds of beloved friends. This happened as recently as this past February, when he attended one more Millrose Games and, despite sometimes forgetting a name or a face, hugged everyone in sight.

He tried to see one more Penn Relays, last month, but his family said he was too frail to make the trip.

Nevertheless, Miller called the Relays office in advance and arranged for a press pass, just in case.

/JP/

Services Wake Friday May 22, 4-8 PM, Wyman-Fisher Funeral Home, Pearl River, N.Y. Funeral Saturday May 23, 10 AM, Church of St. Aedan Rpman Catholic Church, 23 Reld Dr., Pearl River, N.Y.

Notes of condolence to the Miller Family, 45 Villa Road, Pearl River, N.Y. 10965

In lieu of flowers, donations should be made in Bill’s memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl., Memphis, Tenn. 38105.

------Forwarded message ------From: Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:21 AM Subject: R.I.P.-Merrell Noden and Pat Petersen

Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service ([email protected])

It’s one thing to report on the deaths of people like Howard Schmertz, Jim Dunaway, and Bill Miller, men who lived long lives, but quite another to have to share the news about the passing of Merrell Noden and Pat Petersen, who were only in their 50s.

Noden competed for the Lawrenceville School(NJ) and at Princeton(where one of his teammates was Craig Masback), and remained active as a Masters runner for many years. He also wrote many articles on T&F for Sports Illustrated(and other outlets) and was the cross-country coach at the Princeton Day TAFWA Newsletter - Page 12 - June 2015 School the last few years. He had been battling lung cancer.

Petersen was one of the top American marathoners in the late 1980s, ranking #1 by Track and Field News in 1987 and #2 in 1985 and 1989, and running a personal best of 2:10.04 while finishing 7th at the 1989 London Marathon. A member of the Manhattan College Hall of Fame, Petersen was the 1981 IC4A Indoor champion at 5000-meters. He was fine at last fall’s Manhattan T&F reunion, but was diag- nosed in recent months with pancreatic cancer. http://running.competitor.com/2015/05/news/american-marathon-great-pat-petersen-succumbs-to- cancer_129236 .

http://www.runblogrun.com/2015/06/merrell-noden-respected- journalist-princeton-grad-cross-country-coach-and-a-good-man- has-died-by-jef.html

By Larry Eder on June 2, 2015 3:13 PM

Merrell Noden was a giant of a writer. His writings on sport and anything he sunk his considerable wit and thoughtful style to, was reading material for me. I recall a piece for the Runner magazine around 1984 on Seb Coe and a how Merrell got chomped to pieces in a time trial for Coe before the LA Olympics.

I was in awe of Merrell (still am). He was close to the late James Dunaway, my mentor. Noden was a real writer: one learnt from reading Noden, insights that one could not get one one’s own, without twenty years of crashing Merrell’s reading list.

One of my few notes with Merrell was just this past Spring as we grieved over James Dunaway. On Merrell’s FB page, his sister in law wrote how he died, as he lived, with love of his family and some dignity.

Tonight on my walk, through mid town Manhattan, I took a moment and wondered what Merrell Noden would say about my conversation earlier with a taxi driver from Uzbekistan or the three lovely women sharing friend- ship and jokes at a small French cafe I frequent.

But it was okay, as it was raining and no one noticed my tears. Nice to sometimes be in the Big Apple on a rainy, Tuesday night. I continued on my way, thinking of a friend gone.

I thank Jeff Benjamin for writing the following obit. Jeff wrote two obits this weekend (Pat Petersen and Mer- rell). Keep Merrell’s spirit by reading his piece on Charles Dickens, it is included below...

Merrell Noden, Respected journalist, Princeton grad, Cross country coach, and a good man, has died by Jeff Benjamin Merrell Noden, Respected journalist, Princeton grad, Cross country coach, and a good man, has died, by Jeff Benjamin. Photo Courtesy of Princeton.edu

“I have loved the running culture and being around runners my whole life” - - Merrill Noden

Last September, thanks to the help of many, this writer was able to secure a few minutes interviewing Sebastian Coe about the time he spent training on the outskirts of Chicago with legendary York Coach Joe Newton in

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 13 - June 2015 preparation for his astounding performances in the 1984 LA Olympics. http://www.runblogrun.com/2014/09/the-resur- rection-of-sebastian-coe-with-a-little-help-from- his-american-friends--30-years-ago--the-19.html

Lo and Behold, when I finished the piece and Larry Eder put it up, I felt a great sense of true accom- plishment. That is, until I received this note from multi-Olympian and 3:49 miler Jim Spivey this critique from one of the Sport’s greatest writers--

“What!! No mention of the Brigg Mile, at New River Stadium, Coe’s last 1500/mile race before the LA Games?? Where he faced down challenges from, among others, Merrell Noden and Jerry Odlin??!! Coe ran 3:54.0, I think, fastest in the world to that point that year. But his memorable quote was: “I really wasn’t very confident about my fitness until I raced that bloody Yank Noden and was able to pull away over the final half mile. That’s when I knew I was ready.”

That was the humor of Merrell Noden, who sadly passed away yesterday from Cancer in Princeton, New Jersey. Noden was a 4:11 high school miler and New Jersey State Champion as well as a for- mer 880 NJ state indoor record holder who then went on to compete at Princeton, and, through the interven- ing years lived and trained in his mother’s native England. As a writer, Noden started at Track and Field News, before moving over to Sports Illustrated, where, beginning in the mid 1980’s his writings and musings were fol- lowed by many devotees of running and track and field. From articles on Sebastian Coe, Legendary High School Joe Newton, Spivey, , , and a host of others, Noden’s ability to get in depth with his subjects made him one of the standards of the sport’s journalistic writers.

Merrill also possessed other talents as well. “He could recite verbatim “Mounty Python and the Holy Grail”, said Jim Spivey. “One of his biggest articles for Sports Illustrated was about Charles Dickens.”

“Merrill completed his Masters Degree on Dickens in Oxford,” recalled his friend from over the pond in England, Peter Holland, himself a 9-minute steeplechaser and XC runner, who knew Noden from 1974 when he joined the North London AC. Holland also used to house some of the American athletes in his home during the Euro- pean summer racing seasons. Through Holland’s friendship with the late sports agent Kim McDonald, Spivey, Charles Marsala, and a host of others were taken care of by Holland,during that time. Despite sharing their love of the sport, Holland also saw first hand Noden’s passion for Dickens and watched him finish his Masters Thesis on the subject, which culminated in a grand Sports Illustrated piece, “Frisky as the Dickens” http://www.si.com/vault/1988/02/15/117124/frisky-as-the-dickens-charles-dickens-an-avid-walker-logged-20-miles- a-day

Always friendly and eager to help the sport, it was not surprising when, in 2011, Noden took the helm of his alma mater Princeton Day School, where he shared his passion and enthusiam for running with a new genera- tion. In his interview upon accepting the job, Noden said, “I have met a lot of friends because of the sport. It

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 14 - June 2015 may sound corny, but I want them to enjoy running. I have been around running my whole life and I have loved it. I want the kids to feel the same.”

It’s passion like this which makes our sport so great, and Merrill Noden will be missed by many.

On February 6, 2015, Merrill wrote to TAFWA President Jack Pfeifer:

Hi Jack,

This is an event I’d love to attend but I can’t. You may have heard that I’ve been wrestling with lung cancer the last two years. I’m doing OK but I depend on Eva to drive me places and she’s teaching that night. I hope it’s a great night. Thanks for thinking of me.”

— Merrell Noden

Dear Media,

Accreditation has opened for the IAAF World Youth Championships, and USA Track & Field has a verylimited number of credentials for U.S. Media. Please complete the USATF application here, and if approved, you will be contacted within five (5) business days with the information necessary to com- plete the IAAF process. If you are applying for multiple people within your organization, you must fill out the application for each person. Applications for agencies/outlets requesting multiple codes will be considered on a case-by-case basis by USATF.

We look forward to working with you. Please contact Christa Mann, USATF Marketing & Communica- tions Manager at [email protected] or (317) 713-4672 if you have any questions or concerns regarding this event.

Meet Information

Team USA looks to continue its performance as the World's No. 1 team while in , Colombia, at the 9th IAAF World Youth Championships, taking place July 15-19, 2015. At the 2013 event in Donetsk, Ukraine, U.S. athletes won a record 17 medals, raking in two golds, seven silvers and eight bronzes over four days of competition to finish as the top nation with 152 total points.

USATF athletes ages 16-17 through December 31, 2015 (born in 1998 or 1999) will be considered for the IAAF World Youth Team based on their performance at World Youth Trials on Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1 at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 15 - June 2015 http://www.outsports.com/2015/4/13/8397429/andrew-goodman- colorado-statep-track-gay-coming-out College runner comes out as gay by writing ‘#BeTrue’ on his spikes

By Erik Hall on Apr 13, 2015, 12:14am

FORT COLLINS, Colorado — The morning of his final college cross coun- try race, Andrew Goodman arranged his spikes and running bib to take a picture. He wrote earlier in the week a two-word phrase on the outside arch of his black and yellow shoes using a rainbow of color markers. His competitors would see the phrase as they chased him, but the phrase was intend- ed for him. #BeTrue

Goodman, a Colorado State distance runner, posted the photo on social media before competing at the 2014 NCAA Cross Country Championships in November (you can see the photo below). Until that morning, Good- man always separated being gay and an athlete.

“ ‘You didn’t run well because you’re a gay boy and you like boys, so you’re not as tough.’ That sort of mentality is one of things that I hesitated about for the longest (time) and kept me from it,” Goodman says. “You don’t want to be viewed in a different light.”

Using the phrase Nike adopted for its LGBT inspired clothing line, the 22-year-old embraced being different.

But for 10 years, Goodman strug- gled to accept being gay. One of the elite runners in the state of Colo- rado, he poured himself into the sport since sixth grade. His effort produced success and confidence as a runner, but that confidence didn’t permeate his life. His stiffest com- petition was his own mind. He felt doubt about his personal life and questioned his sexuality.

Colorado State’s Andrew Goodman’s struggled with being gay, including being bullied. Now out, he can finally focus 100% on running. Andrew Goodman - Photo by Erik Hall

The first step towards change came nine months earlier at the 2014 Mountain West Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships.

His meet started strong by running the opening leg of Colorado State’s distance medley relay, which captured the conference title. But the next day, Goodman struggled individually in the mile and the 3,000 meters.

“I was missing this fundamental thing that was supposed to be making me happy that everyone else kind of had,” Goodman says. “At conference, that’s when I realized just looking at people and sitting there — I’m miss- ing something.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 16 - June 2015 Running muffled Goodman’s insecurity about being gay. His running impressed people. His running kept him busy. His running let him avoid accepting reality.

When the 2014 indoor track season ended, he faced more time to ponder his doubt and internal questions, be- cause running went away. Left ankle pain forced a few months of reduced training in addition to not racing. His doctor diagnosed the injury as calcific tendinitis. Goodman lost the outlet for his competitiveness.

“When he was around the team, he would just be bummed out because he couldn’t go to the meet and race,” says Ali Will, a former CSU women’s distance runner. “He craved racing and competing again.”

Goodman’s closest friends in Fort Collins are his teammates, so when they left for weekend meets, he found himself alone. Goodman hates being alone to the extent that if he gets home and his roommates are not there, he’ll go somewhere there are people.

With all this alone time, could experiencing the thing he thought would ruin him as an athlete maybe set him free? For so long, he feared being an outcast.

Goodman hates his voice — he speaks fast enough to make an auctioneer jealous and with a higher pitch than most adult men. Goodman reached his current 5-foot-11 height in middle school, but when his voice didn’t drop as he grew, his friends and family started receiving questions about his sexuality.

“PART OF THE REASON THAT IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO COME TO TERMS WITH THINGS … WAS THAT, BASICALLY, ALL OF MIDDLE SCHOOL I WAS BULLIED,”-ANDREW GOODMAN

“His body and everything else had matured at the point to puberty, but the whole voice thing … that’s what they latched onto,” says Ben Goodman, Andrew’s younger brother.

In high school and college, people tactfully asked their questions away from earshot. However, middle school kids lack diplomacy. Goodman barely knew what gay meant when someone called him it for the first time.

“Part of the reason that it took me so long to come to terms with things … was that, basically, all of middle school I was bullied,” Goodman says.

In eighth grade, for example, Goodman’s tight defense at basketball practice caused the team’s star to get frus- trated. He shoved Goodman, and the coach made the star run. In the locker room after practice, the star walked past Goodman and said under his breath, “You fucking faggot.”

Goodman says at least once a week he’d hear directly or secondhand of someone calling him gay.

“Those experiences stuck with me for a really long time and kind of built a connotation in my mind, because I was so young, that (being gay) was possibly a negative thing, and that people weren’t going to be accepting of it,” Goodman says.

Though Goodman winces hearing his voice, his genes aided his athletic career. His dad, Rick, ran at Eastern Michigan, where he won a distance medley relay conference title, earned all-conference in cross country, and ran on three teams that qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships. The sport called to Andrew as well.

“Playing an instrument, there’s not that prestige,” says Andrew, who stopped playing saxophone after middle school to focus on running. “Sports are universal, especially track. Everyone knows it, realizes what it is. In terms of the world, it’s a popular sport. Also, (it’s) where my talents lie. I was extremely good at it, and it came to me very naturally, which helped.”

Many of the boys calling Andrew gay in the hallways were his North Middle School track and field teammates,

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 17 - June 2015 and Andrew used the dirt track behind the school to settle the score. Goodman won three city titles in sixth grade, two more in seventh grade, and four in eighth grade. He still holds two city records.

The running success continued in high school. Competing in Colorado’s largest classification, Goodman earned 10 all-state honors between cross country and track and field. Palmer High School named him its male athlete of the year in 2010-11.

“Out of everything else in his personal life, running always took precedent,” says Teddi Tostanoski, Goodman’s best friend since the seventh grade. “(In high school) Andrew was the track star and cross country star. … I think if you weren’t in his close group of friends, that’s all you’d know him for is his running. From my perspective, I think that’s kind of what he wanted to be known for in high school.”

The night of May 24, 2011, Goodman rises from his seat in front of his entire senior class wearing a dark brown mortarboard and gown, a white corsage pinned on his left lapel. He walks to the podium.

Goodman, one of the school’s top students athletically and academically, gives a speech at graduation highlighting funny moments and inside jokes from the past four years. It receives immediate applause, and congratulations inun- date him after the ceremony.

Andrew Goodman, right, with his younger brother Ben

There’s also an unexpected response. A guy who heard his speech sent him a Facebook message and said he found Goodman attractive.

“At that point, I remember being like, ‘Maybe I could be into this and maybe I could try this with this guy and see where it goes,’ but I didn’t want to accept it,” Goodman says.

Instead, Goodman responded that he wasn’t gay. Gay didn’t fit the life Goodman envisioned.

“I’m a perfectionist,” Goodman says. “(Being gay) was going to make me different and possibly not perfect, and that freaked me out on a level. And then I also think it was like the choked-up fear of people (and) because of the stuff that happened in middle school — people are going to hate me, people aren’t going to like me, people are going to judge me, people are going to bully me. I didn’t want any of that.”

To fit society’s ideals, Goodman needed a female companion. He never had a girlfriend after seventh grade, but he took girls to dances and asked them on dates. He always knew he was attracted to guys, but he hadn’t distin- guished the difference between his sexual attraction to men and the platonic enjoyment women gave him. His dates with women never developed into relationships, so those first years at CSU, he worked toward perfection in areas he felt he could control: academics and running.”

Through his first 3 1/2 years at Colorado State, he’s nearly perfect scholastically. An A- in a composition class remains the only barrier between Goodman and a 4.0 grade point average. He’s enjoyed running success, too.

He placed at the conference track championships six times his first two years. His sophomore year, Good- man mastered clearing the 36-inch high steeplechase barrier despite only having a 30-inch inseam. He ran the fifth-fastest 3,000-meter steeplechase time in school history (8 minutes, 54.64 seconds), finished second in the

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 18 - May 2015 Mountain West, and qualified for the 2013 NCAA postseason. During his junior year, Goodman started to no- tice his thoughts becoming a burden on his running. Particularly during long workouts and races when his mind could drift, he wondered if he should stop suppressing his feelings toward men.

“I had never kissed a boy. I had never danced with a boy. I had never done anything with a boy,” Goodman says. “I told myself that I wasn’t going to know for sure until I physically had done something.”

Tostanoski told him about the gay app Grindr. Through Grindr, Goodman met a few guys clandestinely in April 2014. He enjoyed the affection he received, and he couldn’t wait to tell Tostanoski, who accepted the news by hugging Goodman. Telling another athlete felt more daunting.

A few weeks later at a house party to celebrate the end of the track and field season, Goodman asked Kiah Hicks to follow him outside. They walked out the front door of the one-story white house and took a trip around the block. For the first time in their friendship, Hicks saw tears stream from Goodman’s light brown eyes.

“He told me that he was gay and how scared he was but how sure he was and unsure at the same time,” says Hicks, a thrower on the women’s team.

It’d be another five months before Goodman told any of the CSU men’s distance runners. However, the experi- ence lost its threatening nature about a month later.

For a week in June, Goodman volunteered at a camp for kids with muscular dystrophy and worked one-on-one with an 11-year-old named Sam, who possessed limited arm and leg function. Sam’s muscular dystrophy had advanced farther than most of the kids at the camp and confined him to a wheelchair. He received questions frequently and never hesitated answering them.

“Judgment is a huge thing with me. Judgment freaks me out, and I don’t want people to judge me or treat me differently,” Goodman says. “In comparison to what this kid is going through on a day-to-day basis, (being gay) was miniscule.”

It took a pre-teen kid to allow Goodman to move past the emotional scars he developed in his own pre-teen years. “He embraces it 120 percent, and that made me want to embrace who I was 120 percent,” Goodman says.

About the same time, Goodman met Josh Dixon, an openly gay U.S. national team gymnast who trains in Colo- rado Springs. With the courage he took from Sam and the example he took from Dixon, Goodman felt nothing holding him back. He decided that if anyone ever asked him again about being gay, he would no longer lie.

It still wasn’t easy to initiate the conversation. Once back in Fort Collins, he told Ali Will and some close friends immediately. It took some time to tell his male cross country teammates.

“DEFYING THE STEREOTYPE OF, ‘YOU’RE GAY SO YOU’RE NOT AS GOOD ATHLETICALLY,’ IS HUGE,”-AN- DREW GOODMAN

Goodman, the only men’s runner on the cover of the 2014 CSU cross country media guide, went on some dates. Jeff Abbey, a CSU runner, saw Goodman with one of his dates at a party. Abbey and Goodman roomed together for each cross country team trip in 2014, and Abbey started using gender-neutral pronouns to talk about people Goodman thought were attractive.

The third meet of the season at Notre Dame, Abbey and Goodman were alone walking in their hotel parking lot. Goodman told a story about someone he’d gone on a date with. Then Goodman stopped, “Truth bomb: It’s a dude.” Abbey hugged Goodman.

The rest of the men’s cross country team learned about Goodman’s sexuality shortly afterward. His fear of being

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 19 - June 2015 unaccepted proved baseless. None of his relationships with teammates changed. Their acceptance gave Goodman courage to make the subtle public announcement the morning of Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, in Terre Haute, Indiana. He placed his size 9 1/2 Nike spikes together on his hotel bed. He took the photo and posted it on Instagram and Facebook.

Colorado State’s GLBTQQA Resource Center has no record of any previous CSU athlete announcing publicly that he or she is gay.

“Defying the stereotype of, ‘You’re gay so you’re not as good athletically,’ is huge,” Goodman says about his inspiration to live openly.

After a week back in Fort Collins for the 2015 spring semester, Goodman deleted the Grindr app. Goodman accepts himself as a gay man, now. He’s turned his attention back to academics and running. But he’s open to going on dates, too.

Goodman, who has college track eligibility remain- ing through 2016, is focusing on five steeplechase goals for the next two years: break the school record, qualify for NCAA championships, become an NCAA All-American, qualify for the 2015 U.S. Track and Field Championships and the 2016 U.S. Olympic Tri- als.

“Since I have figured (my sexuality) out and I know for myself, that’s good enough,” Goodman says. “I don’t need to be … pursuing anyone or anything and putting my time and effort there. In reality, I only have one shot at this running thing, and that is where I’m going to focus my time and my effort right now.”

He ran one indoor meet this winter, the mile Feb. 13 at the University of New Mexico. It was his first track race since embracing his sexuality. “For what- ever reason, I wasn’t super nervous,” Goodman says. “Normally, I’m a lot more nervous.”

Southern ’s Bryan Jordan took an early lead. Goodman followed him until 400 meters remained. Goodman then started his kick and came around Jordan’s right shoulder.

“I made a really good move and kind of blew the kids out of the water,” Goodman says. Being true to himself is aiding Goodman as a runner. And as a person, too.

“I remember being on my cool down and being so happy about the fact that it finally clicked again,” Goodman says. “The fact that I was gay or anything like that wasn’t in my mind the whole race, which was a relief, too. I finally had honed in — not just physically but also mentally.”

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Do Race Lotteries Violate the Law? A recent ruling against the company behind Ironman events calls into question the legality of one method of race registration.

By Matt McCue | Published May 21, 2015

Two athletes finish Ironman Kona in 2013.

On May 13, the World Triathlon Company—which organizes Ironman events—agreed to forfeit $2.76 million in funds that it charged athletes to win the chance to compete in the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. The case, which the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Florida brought against the Florida-based company, cov- ered the thousands of athletes who participated in the lottery since October 2012.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment on what prompted the case. The assistant Attor- ney who investigated the case, James A. Muench, is an eight-time Florida Ironman finisher. In a statement, the World Triathlon Company said, “While we do not agree with U.S. Department of Justice’s interpretation of the relevant statutes or that there has been anything untoward or inappropriate in our operation of the IRONMAN Kona Lottery, IRONMAN chose to settle so that we can focus on our priorities—our athletes and our events.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 21 - June 2015 The Ironman World Championship currently draws a field of approximately 2,000 racers, most of whom qualify. Ironman reserves 100 non-qualifier spots, which are filled with a lottery. Since 1989, Ironman has charged ath- letes a fee to enter that lottery. Whether or not athletes were selected to race, they were still charged the lottery fee.

Last year, 12,292 lottery entrants paid a $50 fee; this year, 14,254 did. By holding these lotteries, the World Triathlon Company ran an illegal gambling business, according to the court.

This ruling could have implications in the running industry. The New York City Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Marine Corps Marathon, Beach to Beacon 10K (in Maine), and Mount Washington Road Race (in New Hamp- shire) are five well-known events that hold entry lotteries. The Chicago and Marine Corps Marathon lotteries are free to enter, while the New York City Marathon charges a non-refundable $11 fee per entry. Both Beach to Beacon and Mount Washington charge a non-refundable $5 lottery fee per person.

According to the Unites States code highlighted in the Ironman complaint, an illegal gambling business involves five or more people, either remains in continuous operation for at least 30 days or has gross revenue of $2,000 in a single day, and violates the law of a state.

Are Race Lotteries Gambling Businesses? All five races have lottery field sizes larger than five people, so they meet that criterion.

The Chicago and New York City Marathon lottery windows both exceed 30 days. The lottery timeframe for the Beach to Beacon and Mount Washington Road Race are both shorter than 30 days. However, those two races could exceed $2,000 gross revenue in a day, depending on how many entries they receive.

Because the Marine Corps Marathon neither charges for its lottery entries nor operates its lottery for 30 days or more, it cannot be seen as an illegal gambling business.

Do They Violate State Laws? Private lotteries are illegal in every state. To be considered a private lottery, three elements must be present: consideration (that is, a cost to enter), chance, and prize. Based on those requirements, the Chicago Marathon lottery does not qualify as a potentially illegal lottery, said Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, in New York, who specializes in gaming law: “No amount of money is paid to enter the random drawing.”

Edelman noted that very limited transaction fees in certain circumstances have been deemed acceptable, but that just because the New York City Marathon calls its charge a “processing fee” does not make it immune to the law. “Requiring an individual to pay $11 to enter a random lottery where the selected winners earn the right of entry into a marathon may reasonably be construed as an illegal lottery because the elements of chance and re- ward are clearly present and one could make the reasonable argument that the upfront non-refundable payment of $11 in exchange for entry could be construed as consideration,” Edelman said.

The New York City Marathon is managed by the not-for-profit New York Road Runners. The New York State constitution does make lottery exceptions for non-profits that benefit organizations of veterans, volunteer firefighters, and “similar groups.” The language is unclear as to whether the NYRR would be included in “similar groups.”

The Beach to Beacon and Mount Washington Road Race each charge a lottery fee of $5 per person. “As the amount of money is reduced, one could make a stronger argument that the payment is merely a processing fee and not an entry fee,” Edelman said. “However, charging even a nominal amount of money could lead to a tech- nical challenge of these activities.”

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MELODY FAIRCHILD – YOUTH STAR TURNS MASTER MOTIVATOR

May18 by Toni Reavis

Efraimson finishing 2:01 in Portland

Cleveland, Oh. — Young Alexa Efraim- son put her abundant talent on display last night in Portland, Oregon, clocking 2:01:13 for 800 meters at the Portland Twilight meet, a time which slots her # 3 on the all-time U.S. list for high school aged girls behind Mary Cain and the late Kim Gallagher. It was a fine piece of running by the Camus, Washington native who turned pro last year in lieu of exploring a collegiate running career, a decision that Cain had also made the year before.

But even as Alexa showed her stuff, we are reminded that Mary Cain has come off the boil. After two years of blistering performances, including a spate of records from 800 to 5000 meters, reaching the finals in the 1500 meters 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, and a win at the World Juniors 3000 meter champs in Eugene last summer, the Bronxville, New York native has come into 2015 under performing. Her indoor season was lackluster, and in her three outdoor 1500s to date she has yet to break 4:15. Last Thursday she finished 11th in a 12-person 1500 at the Hoka One One Middle Distance Classicat Occidental College in L.A.

Efraimson and Cain are just the latest two high school aged phenoms who matured early and were capable of national and even international caliber performances. But there is nothing automatic about youthful talent, and the road ahead holds no guarantees of future success.

This past weekend I was in Cleveland for the 38th Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon and 10Km, races I have covered since 1978. Racing in Cleveland this year was another prodigious young talent with high hopes, and another former youth superstar who serves as a cautionary tale for all who follow.

Alana Hadley of Charlotte, North Carolina ran the 10K in Cleveland, finishing 9th in 35:53, using the race as tuneup for Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth next month. Alana made her marathon debut in Cleveland two years ago, posting a 2:58, a PR she has since reduced to 2:38:34, winning the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon last November. She and father/coach Mark have steered her toward a professional marathon career rather than a college-based development system. Also racing in Cleveland yesterday, and winning the master’s division in the marathon, was Boulder, Colorado’s Melody Fairchild, who clocked 2:58:58 time on an overcast, but humid Ohio morning. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 23 - June 2015 One of America’s most heralded running prodigies, as renowned in the late 1980s and early `90s as Mary Cain or Efraimson are today, Fairchild set one record after another during her junior years. In 1989 & 1990 she took back-to-back Kinney National Cross Country Championships, with her 16:39 still standing as the Morely Field course record in ’s Balboa Park. She also brought home the bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Junior race in 1991 after becoming the first high school girl in America to go sub-10:00 for . But after entering the , the bottom fell out as Fairchild suffered from injuries and an eating disorder. After losing her scholarship her junior year, she rebounded to win the 1996 NCAA in- door title at 3000m, then represented the U.S. at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in the 5000m. And yet, she never did rise to the super- star status her early success suggested.

I spoke with the now 41 year-old after she finished the Rite Aid Cleve- land Marathon about her own path, and what she sees of today’s young talent.

Family celebrates Melody’s run in Cleveland

“Oh, my goodness,” she began in the heavy air as her in-law family sa- luted her effort. “The idea was to get a sub-2:50, but that didn’t happen. After halfway something just turned a switch, and I struggled in. This is my second last test before theLeadville 100 in August (she will also defend her Freihofer’s 5K master’s title in the coming weeks.) To do well in the 100 miler I need to keep my speed up, because that’s what my competition doesn’t have, and though I’m losing mine quickly as I age (she laughs), I still feel I have an advantage there.”

Melody has been married for nearly one year to Glen Delman, a Cleveland area native from Pepper Pike’s Orange High School. Also rooting her on was John Babbington, famed ex-coach of the Liberty A.C. in Boston who helped steer the careers of many a young talent, including Olympic medalist and world champion Lynn Jen- nings. Babbington was head coach of the 1991 U.S. Junior World Championship Cross Country team in Antwerp where Melody medaled. They have been close ever since.

“He always has believed in me and my talent, and has kept the belief that I belong ‘among the best’ alive in me, when it was hard for me to see that. I know that it pains him a little, that my “circuitous” path, of “finding my- self” as I healed emotionally and mentally from trying stuff I dealt with as a child, led me astray from the single minded focus of an Olympic athlete. It has pained me too, a little bit, but that’s part of what motivates me to continue racing today.”

We hadn’t seen Melody’s name in the results for many years, but the arrival of the master’s division spurred her to reconnect with the sport that defined her when, as a 5’2”, 92 pound blond-haired pixie, she was the metro- nomic terror of her generation.

“I anticipated turning 40 a year and nine months ago, and really had a good year in 2013-2014, winning the U.S. master’s titles at 5k, 10k, and 15k. This year has been a slow start. I’ve had some foot issues, a dropped metatar- sal head that I’m trying to figure out.”

The economical form that brought Melody so much success as a junior has now been turned toward ultra-dis- tance racing. In 2012 she took eighth place at the World Mountain Running Championship, and in August she has her sites set on winning the Leadville Trails 100, perhaps the most celebrated of all ultra races in the USA.

“The Leadville 100 is my “Olympics”,” says Melody, “and I think it’s perfect timing. My father was born in Lead- ville, Colorado and my grandparents met in the Leadville library in 1915. So I have a lot of energy around the TAFWA Newsletter - Page 24 - June 2015 place…Honestly, here’s the BIG Dream: Win Leadville 100 – harvest all the good press that will come from that… have a child in 2016 and while I am pregnant, write THE book…then return to Leadville in 2017 for a repeat win…and promote the book and a REAL speaking career. This is what I really want to do. I’ve known since I was 14 years old, winning races and having the mothers of kids I defeated telling me I was their hero and wanting my autograph, that this gift, these chances, this journey, is not for me, but for others; I am just a conduit.”

Reminiscing at the finish with former Coach John Bab- bington

Even in her word cadence one can sense the passion and drive that has once again has set her onto a competitive path. But unlike in her ingenue days, there exists that settling overview of age and experi- ence that balances those passions with life’s greater goals. Melody’s focus is already on children as her running club, Boulder Mountain Warriors, is geared toward ages 8 to 14, with an emphasis on cross country. I asked her what lessons she learned that might help not only her club members, but even more the other young talents of today who are mirroring her success at an early age.

“It has to come from within. Young superstars who go pro, I don’t trust that at all. I promise they will go through some dark times. To tell kids not to have a collegiate experience…I went to the University of Oregon, and my coach Tom Hei- nonen I love and respect, though we butted heads as well. But Jordan Hasay had her own apartment as a freshman (at Oregon). Go to the dorms, deal with the kid who lives above you who plays music too loud. Have a life!”

But every life is unique. While some youthful champions do suffer in the transition to senior division success, others make their way just fine. And let’s remember, Melody reached her crossroads crisis not simply due to running injuries, or from focusing too much on her sport.

Melody Fairchild 1991

“My mom was dying of cancer when I was in high school. She was in the hospital on my graduation day, and died 10 days later. That threw me for a loop. I didn’t want to go anywhere, do anything, much less try to reach the expectations others had for me. My inner compass was pointing toward being a complete person. But once my mom died, there was no turning back. Plus, my dad was struggling, too.”

Today, happily married, back doing what she loves, but with goals of her own choosing as a guide, Melody sings a happy tune that isn’t defined by racing success or failure.

“Who am I?” she asked rhetorically. “My main motivation is to help kids find that out, too. Who am I? Use run- ning to enhance your life, not to be your life in this crazy world. I don’t regret any of my choices; I am 41 and smiling, healthy and strong; I believe I was dealt the hand I was to be able to give back to young people today and, as Jim Carrey says: the affect you have on others is the most valuable currency you have…”

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After the Mile Tim Danielson was among an exclusive group of runners who had broken the elusive four-minute barrier. Now he is a runner shackled, charged with killing his ex-wife.

By JERÉ LONGMAN | Published March 13

SAN DIEGO — It was to be a reunion of Southern California’s top high school runners, more than a hundred of them across six decades. National record-setters, state champions, a sprinkling of Olympians. Among them, a private man was going to make a rare public appearance. If Tim Danielson was not the guest of honor, exactly, he was the one everybody wanted to see.

On June 11, 1966, competing at Balboa Stadium, where the San Diego Chargers and the Beatles had performed, Danielson became the second American high school athlete to run a mile under four minutes. It was an achieve- ment so extraordinary that only three prep milers have done it since, running four laps around a track, averag- ing less than a minute per lap.

Danielson’s stunning time that day was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. It matched the time that Roger Bannister, an English medical student, had run on May 6, 1954, in becoming the first man to break the physical and psycho- logical barrier that was four minutes.

Until that moment, many outside the track world wondered whether such a feat was possible. Would the heart burst? Bannister’s achievement was widely considered, with the climbing of Mount Everest in 1953, the greatest sporting accomplishments of the mid-20th century.

“I suppose the appeal lies in its very simplicity,” Bannister, who became a neurologist, wrote in his autobiog- raphy, “The First Four Minutes.” “It needs no money, no equipment, and in a world of increasingly complex technology, it stands out as a naïve statement about our nature. A man could, with his own two feet, overcome all difficulties to reach a pinnacle upon which he could declare, ‘No one has ever done this before.’”

A decade later, in 1964, became the first American high school miler to break four minutes. When Danielson followed with his great run in 1966, it was still considered a defining test of human capacity for speed and endurance. He joined one of the sporting world’s most exclusive clubs, running into history at the same speed as Roger Bannister. While Ryun later set a world record in the mile and won a silver medal in the 1,500 meters, or metric mile, at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Danielson never reached the Summer Games. Nor did he run another mile under four minutes.

By 1971, Danielson had apparently stepped from the track into the ether, vanishing from the public eye. But far from being forgotten, he became one of American track and field’s most enduring mysteries. Depending on one’s view, he left his career unfulfilled or defiantly refused to have his life’s boundaries set by a triumph, however enormous, that occurred before he turned 19.

In November 2010, Danielson was named one of San Diego’s 50 greatest high school athletes. It took months to reach him and invite him to a reunion of Southern California’s top high school runners. Then, two months before the reunion, he phoned while riding his mountain bike. Sure, he would love to attend. “He was the guy everyone was so excited about, more than anyone else,” said Ralph Serna, a top high school runner in the 1970s who organized the reunion at a bar in Fullerton, Calif. “I felt fortunate to finally be able to speak to the guy who TAFWA Newsletter - Page 26 - June 2015 only seemed to be an urban legend when I grew up. Tim Danielson was the No. 1 distance runner ever to come out of California, the second guy to break four minutes. Everyone put him on this pedestal. No way could any- one get close to him.”

Jim Ryun (1), the first prep miler to break four minutes, on his way to winning the 1966 A.A.U. national championship mile, as pictured in the January 1967 issue of Track & Field News. Danielson, fourth from right, appearing behind Ryun’s left shoulder, finished sixth in 4:03.3.

A shoe designer and track archivist, Serna began corresponding with Dan- ielson. He prepared some mementos for the reunion: a picture of Danielson and other runners on a comput- er mouse pad, a pint glass bearing his name, a kind of baseball trading card that recorded Danielson’s best marks in high school, illuminating his speed and versatility: 50.2 seconds for 440 yards, 1:53.2 for 880 yards, 3:59.4 for the mile, 8:55.4 for two miles, 20 feet 6 inches for the long jump. Serna also made a DVD showing Danielson’s victories in the California state mile championship in 1965 and 1966, his face placid, his arms swaying slightly, his sinewy legs carrying him to easy victory. The clarity was unusual. Many races from that era were grainy and filmed with- out a zoom lens. Danielson graciously thanked Serna.

“I feel like I should pay you for your work,” Danielson wrote in an e-mail on May 5, 2011. “It doesn’t seem fair that this is all free.”

Later that May, the correspondence stopped. Danielson must have been busy at work, Serna figured. No big deal. Danielson had the details about the reunion. Everyone would be excited to see him in July. Then, three weeks before the reunion, Serna received a cascade of e-mails from friends. It was 45 years — al- most to the day — after Danielson’s milestone run. Danielson would not be attending the reunion, one e-mail said blandly. Another was more ominous: “Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I just heard that Tim Daniel- son just killed his wife and tried to kill himself.”

A Sorry Predicament’

Patrick T. Fallon for The New York Times

Tim Danielson at a court hearing in El Cajon, Calif., last month, when his trial was set for mid-June. Charged with killing Ming Qi, his third ex-wife, he has been in jail for more than a year and a half.

Tim Danielson sat slumped on the toilet in a white T-shirt and underwear. He was breathing but apparently un- conscious, unresponsive to the voices of sheriff’s deputies. In an adjacent bedroom, a generator ran loudly. The smell of gasoline was potent. Ming Qi, a former wife of Danielson’s, lay dead on the bed. A pump-action shotgun lay beside her. A .22-caliber rifle was nearby. Authorities said she was shot six times. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 27 - June 2015 By all accounts, Danielson had been gentle, humble, quiet, even-tempered, law abiding. He could not remember getting so much as a parking ticket. But his life had grown complicated, according to court records and inter- views with his lawyer, friends, co-workers, neighbors and relatives. They described Danielson, now 65, as profes- sionally dutiful and socially awkward, a steady and reliable engineer, but also a shy man who struggled with alcohol and relationships, married three times and had a long-term companionship and a son with a woman who had been his pen pal when she was in prison.

In the late spring of 2011, Dan- ielson grew despondent as his personal life became tangled. He had resumed drinking after 12 or 13 years of sobriety and had begun seeing a psycholo- gist, his lawyer said. His family grew concerned about his state of mind.

On the night of June 12, 2011, Danielson was accused of killing Qi, his third wife, who was 48. She was a native of China whom Danielson had met online. They were divorced but were living together at his gabled home in Lakeside, Calif., northeast of San Diego.

Danielson also tried to asphyxiate himself with carbon monoxide fumes, according to court testimony, upset be- cause he believed Qi was seeing another man. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. If convicted, he faces 50 years to life in prison. His trial is set for mid-June, a time of year that has signified the best moments in his life, and the worst.

“Everyone was stunned,” said Serna, who organized the 2011 reunion. It went on as scheduled, but “there was a gray cloud over the event,” he noted. “It was an awkward feeling.”

For more than a year and a half, Danielson has awaited trial without bail in the San Diego County jail. At a recent hearing, he appeared in jail blues and sandals, his hands cuffed and bound to his waist, the chains that restricted him plinking in a nearly empty courtroom in El Cajon, Calif. His hair was white and thinning, his face and body gone soft and round from a lack of exercise.

“I’m in a sorry predicament that is still a major nightmare,” Danielson wrote on June 25, 2012, to Bob Messina, a former college teammate at San Diego State who read the letter to a reporter. “Right now the outcome is in limbo. I’m not sure when it will end or how it will end. One thing is certain is that I had a serious mental break- down. It was not part of or who I am. I’m still in shock after a year.”

He could not discuss the case, Danielson wrote, but added, “Some things have surfaced which help explain my meltdown.”

He worked for the same aviation company in El Cajon for 40 years, Danielson wrote. He had become the chief scientist of chemical milling technology for GKN Aerospace Chem-Tronics, which manufactures parts and cas- ings for jet engines. He had two sons, Brian, who was then 44, and a younger son who was 17. Danielson wrote

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 28 - June 2015 that they were close despite their age difference.

The memorial announcement for Ming Qi, who was shot to death on June 12, 2011. Danielson had met Qi, a native of China, online. They were divorced but living together when she was killed.

He was not ready for retirement and had planned to work at least two more years. (A job evaluation called him “an excellent employee” who was known to be “very reclusive” but was “liked by everyone,” was devoted to his family and had raised his youngest son by himself, “never lost his temper” and was “willing to help anybody in need.”)

“I had a good life before this terrible thing happened,” Danielson wrote. “No one could have ever guessed this outcome, me the most.”

Until four years earlier, Danielson wrote, he still ran “off and on.” But his races were a long way from Balboa Stadium. In his last five-kilometer run, he finished first in his age group in a community race. Shortly after, he tore a tendon in his left foot that led to the collapse of his arch. He had to stop running, but he still rode his mountain bike 50 miles a week “until the tragedy.” Little exercise was permitted in the San Diego County jail, Danielson wrote. Once he could run a mile in four minutes. Now he was permitted only to walk around the tables in the jail cafete- ria, 40 laps to the mile.

“I haven’t seen the sun in the past year, which just adds to the depression,” Dan- ielson wrote. “As of now, I’m not certain what the outcome will be. It is not know- ing that makes it so much more difficult. The time range I’m faced with is huge. At my age, even a somewhat short sentence might mean forever. I would not look forward to that.” He had lost everything he owned — his house, cars, motor home, all-terrain vehicles, tools, even his clothes. The only things he still had were the support of his family and a retirement account, he wrote, “but I’m just not sure when or if I’ll be out.”

“It is so hard to imagine unless one has been here in this situation,” Danielson wrote. “I would have never guessed.”

Editor’s Note: Please follow the link above to read the remaining installments of this story.

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Steve Prefontaine left mark on Tacoma running scene before his death

BY CRAIG HILL | Staff writerMay 23, 2015

Steve Prefontaine led a run in Tacoma at dawn on Nov. 15, 1974. Nike was in its infancy at the time and the company had given him a jacket with a backward . WARREN ANDERSON — 1974 file photo

Six and a half months before he died, America’s most transcendent distance runner bonded with Tacoma. Steve Prefontaine jogged through Point Defiance Park with some of Tacoma’s fastest runners, and, near the Rhododendron Garden, proclaimed, “This is the most beautiful place I’ve ever run. You don’t know what you have here.”

The park reminded him of Coos Bay, Oregon, his hometown, and the waterfront reminded him of Finland, where he’d set the U.S. 5,000-meter record that summer.

It was mid-November 1974, and Prefontaine was the king of running. He’d set five American records that year. His spot on the 1976 Olympic team was a foregone conclusion. A gold medal was expected.

Pre, as almost everybody called him, was in Tacoma visiting friends, talking at schools and making an appear- ance for a young shoe company called Nike.

Saturday will be the 40th anniversary of Prefontaine’s death. He was killed in a car accident shortly after mid- night, rocking the running world and leaving a void the sport still hasn’t filled.

“You ask people who the top (distance) runners are today, who was on the last Olympic team and a lot of people probably can’t tell you,” said Wilson High track coach Sam Ring, a friend of Prefontaine. “But they know Pre.” Prefontaine’s relationship with Tacoma was short but sweet. His University of Oregon roommate, Pat Tyson, at- tended Lincoln High. A Sound to Narrows victory was dedicated to him. A movie about his life was filmed at the University of Puget Sound. And at least one of the kids Prefontaine met in ’74 still draws inspiration from the legend.

Prefontaine made several visits to Tacoma, running at Point Defiance each time. But it was that November ’74 visit his friends remember most.

THE VISIT Tyson arranged Prefontaine’s visit. The track star would speak at Hunt and Mason junior highs, then sign auto- graphs at Scott’s Athletic Equipment in Lakewood. The owners, Scott and Sis Names, were among Nike’s original investors.

On the evening of Nov. 14, Ring and Tyson, friends since high school, took Prefontaine to a tavern on 38th Street. Prefontaine, 23 at the time, loved being around people. “He had a genuine interest in people,” Ring said. “He’d strike up a conversation with anybody.”

“As long as they didn’t get weird,” said Tyson, now Gonzaga’s track coach. “You know, grab on and consume him with stupid questions.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 30 - June 2015 Shortly after their arrival at the tavern, things got ugly. Two men were fighting over a woman. Prefontaine in- tervened and helped defuse the brawl. “But we figured we better get him out of there,” Ring said. They moved on to the Schooner Pub in Lakewood.

At 6:15 the next morning, as they did every morning, the men planned to go for a run. They’d invited a few friends, but word got out and spread quickly.

When they started near the corner of Narrows Drive and Jackson Street, an estimated 50 people were there, shivering in the cold so they could run with the man who’d finished fourth in the 5,000 meters at the ’72 Olym- pics. The News Tribune even sent a reporter and a photographer.

“You are all freaks to get up this early,” Prefontaine told the crowd.

They ran six miles at about 10 mph. Pre worked the crowd.

“He was cordial as always,” said Terry Rice, who ran at Central Washington University. “He’d run up in front, then drop back and jog with the wogglers.”

Rice taught at Hunt, and Ring taught at Mason, and both were impressed by Prefontaine’s presentations at the schools later that day. He loaded a projector, showed film from some races and talked about setting goals. The usually restless kids were silent as they listened.

“He was very special,” Rice said. “He had a charisma that is hard to describe.”

SWOOSH A picture from the Nov. 15 run was published in that evening’s edition of The News Tribune. It shows Prefon- taine as one of the shortest of a group that included several high school students. Prefontaine is wearing a white jacket trimmed with red with a Nike logo stitched on his left chest. Nike had made the jacket for the trip. Nike’s famous Swoosh logo was designed in ’71 and debuted on track shoes in ’72. The brand was so young, nobody seemed to notice a mistake had been made. The Swoosh was sewn on backward.

“I think everybody would notice now,” Tyson said.

1975 SOUND TO NARROWS Tyson was out for an early morning jog on May 30, 1975, when he returned home to find his landlord waiting. She had bad news. Prefontaine, 24, was killed a few hours earlier. Tyson couldn’t believe the news.

Tyson remembers going to work at the Seattle junior high where he taught and seeing tears in his students’ eyes “They were crying for me because they knew he was my friend,” Tyson said.

Tyson’s next race was supposed to be Tacoma’s third Sound to Narrows on June 7. He’d won it the year before, and Ring had won the first race.

He drove to Coos Bay for his friend’s funeral with every intention of dropping out of the race.

“It was at Pre’s funeral that I began to think — if he knew I was withdrawing from a competition he would roll over in his grave,” Tyson later told The News Tribune.

Instead, he decided to dedicate the race to his former roommate. He drove home after the funeral, arriving back in Seattle at 2:30 a.m. He was out for a training run before 6 a.m.

Three days later he lined up for the Sound to Narrows wearing an Oregon running singlet. “I called on him for help,” Tyson said after the race. “It was there too.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 31 - June 2015 Tyson won. Ring was fifth.

‘PREFONTAINE’ Prefontaine’s Tacoma ties made the city a fitting location for the 1997 Hollywood Pictures (Disney) film “Pre- fontaine” starring Jared Leto.

Eugene, of course, would have been more fitting, but the rights to film there had already been obtained by War- ner Brothers for the 1998 Prefontaine movie “.”

The University of Puget Sound’s Baker Stadium played the role of Oregon’s Hayward Field. Olympia got a cameo as Coos Bay.

Several of the men who ran with Pre in Tacoma in November of ’74 had bit roles in the film. Tyson and Ring served as advisers for the film they say Prefontaine’s parents preferred.

Leto, in his third movie, was dedicated to the role, Ring said. Tyson trained Leto, getting him to the point where he could crank out 60-second laps on the UPS track. However, Breckin Meyer, the actor who portrayed Tyson, wasn’t much of a runner. During race scenes, Ring said, Meyer would hide behind the pole vault pit, then pop out and join runners for the final stretch. The movie received mostly good reviews and still inspires runners. Nick Paterno, a Pierce College math instructor and PowerBar-sponsored runner, remembers watching “Prefon- taine” when he was a freshman at Emerald Ridge High. Today, Paterno sports a mustache that is partly a tribute to the running icon.

“My dad always had a mustache, and Pre had one, so when I was old enough to grow one that didn’t look ter- rible, I kept it,” Paterno said.

Paterno also works at Fleet Feet Sports in Tacoma, where a picture of Prefontaine hangs in a back room. He says Prefontaine’s running style still resonates with runners.

“People like that style of going all out from the beginning,” Paterno said. “You just don’t see that much any- more.” PRE LIVES In November of ’74, Pat Cordle was a senior at Wilson High when Ring, his old junior high coach, asked if he wanted to go for a morning run with Prefontaine.

Of course he did.

“It’s had a lasting impact on me,” Cordle said from his office at Bic headquarters in Connecticut where he is vice president of field sales.

He is 58 now and still passionate about running. He travels the world extensively to race with friends. Their next half marathon will be in Iceland. Cordle still has the newspaper clipping from the 1974 run, signed by everybody in the picture. It was a gift from Ring. And hanging on his office wall is a black and white photo of Prefontaine in the final steps of a victory at Hayward Field. Above it is one of the runner’s most famous quotes.

In 2011, Cordle was inducted into the Convenience Store News Industry Hall of Fame. During his acceptance speech, he told the story of running the streets of Tacoma with the man who helped inspire his work ethic. Then, he shared the Prefontaine quote: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

Craig Hill: 253-597-8497 [email protected] @AdventureGuys

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 32 - June 2015 Remembering Bruce Jenner Photos by Steve Sutton

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Minority NCAA coaches condemn changes for eligibility

By Jon Krawczynski / Associated Press  May 30, 2015 12:00 AM

A new organization of minority coaches sharply criticized NCAA eligibility standards set to take effect next year for incoming freshmen, saying Friday they will deny too many athletes the opportunity to go to college. The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development, a group led by Texas Tech coach Tubby Smith, Georgetown coach John Thompson III and former Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt, issued a statement to The Associated Press said the standards disproportionately target minority and less affluent students in “an unin- tended consequence beyond acceptability.”

The new rules require high school athletes to have a grade point average of at least 2.3 in 16 core courses (up from 2.0 in 13 courses). And 10 of those courses must be completed in the first three years of school in order to be eligible to compete as a freshman. Once a student completes a core course in his or her first three years, it cannot be retaken for a better grade.

The NAFCED group said they fear the bar has been raised too high for some athletes hoping to play college sports.

“That dream could be taken away after six semesters in high school,” Thompson said. “So for someone that’s a late bloomer, someone that the light bulb doesn’t go on until later, now it’s too late. And just the disproportion- ate number of minorities that’s going to affect, the number of people in general that’s going to affect, is not good.”

The changes, coupled with a 2007 rule that allows for only one course from prep school to be applied to an ath- lete’s transcript, could have a major impact on the number of athletes that will be eligible to compete as fresh- man, especially in the NCAA’s two biggest moneymakers: football and men’s basketball.

A recent NCAA report found that 43 percent of men’s college basketball players, 35 percent of football players and 15 percent of Division I athletes overall who were competing as freshmen in 2009-10 would not have quali- fied under the new standards.

“Those are two rules that are basically discouraging kids from trying to rebound from a bad start,” Hewitt said. Hewitt was among dozens of minority coaches who gathered in Atlanta last week for NAFCED’s first annual meeting. He is among the founders of a group that also includes Thompson, Smith, Texas coach Shaka Smart and California coach Cuonzo Martin. They say they are determined to bring a new voice to issues facing minor- ity athletes and coaches in college, including student welfare and the dwindling numbers of minorities in the NCAA coaching ranks.

The new requirements were put into place during a time when the NCAA and its member schools are wrestling with the notion of amateurism. One of the concerns from some schools is “alternative admissions,” where students admitted to college to play sports otherwise would not have gained entrance based on their academic performance from high school. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 34 - June 2015 “Our concern is that we want students to be successful academically and in life,” Ohio President Roderick McDa- vis, the chairman of the NCAA’s committee on academic performance, told The AP. “We think if they come to a university or a college better prepared academically as high school students, that this will help them to succeed academically and better in life after college because they will be much better prepared to take on the rigor of a college curriculum.”

The new standards were adopted in 2012 but implementation was delayed until 2016 to give students, teachers, counselors and coaches time to adjust, McDavis said.

“It was sort of like fair warning that four years down the line, we are going to implement new standards,” McDa- vis said. “It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that we’re implementing the standards because that’s when we said we were going to do it.”

Hewitt and Thompson are among the coaches who believe the new rules unfairly target the young minority ath- letes that they often recruit, many of whom come from low-income homes and underperforming school systems that lack the resources to properly prepare students for college.

“If there’s anything we can do to provide a more prepared student as they come to a college campus, we’re all in favor of that,” Hewitt said. “This is not about reducing standards. This is about, this isn’t fair. Why are you tell- ing a kid after his junior year of high school that you are less desirable to get a college scholarship? Or if the light comes on late, why can’t I go to prep school?”

NAFCED is in its formative stages, only just beginning to amass the numbers needed to become an agent for change. But it aims to replicate the influence the now-defunct Black Coaches Association once had in the days when George Raveling, John Thompson and John Chaney were outspoken crusaders for minority coaches and athletes.

“Changes are going to be inevitable, whether it’s academic changes or the changes that the NCAA has imple- mented as far as giving players cost of living [stipends],” Smith said. “All those things are for the welfare of the student-athletes. We have to make sure we keep those things in the forefront.”

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How to fire your coach

Published on June 2, 2015 | by Alan Abrahamson

In December, 2004, David Oliver, just 22, graduated from Howard University, a star in football and track. He moved the very next month to Florida, intent on becoming a star on the professional track circuit, and started working with coach Brooks Johnson.

Oliver is now 33, the 2008 Beijing Games bronze medalist in the 110-meter high hurdles, the 2013 world cham- pion. He is a father, a family man. He is the same guy and yet very different from that 22-year-old. “I do owe the man a ton of credit,” Oliver said. “I learned everything from him.”

This was after David Oliver fired Brooks Johnson — in response to a profanity- laced text message Johnson had sent after Oliver’s run Saturday at the Prefon- taine Classic in Eugene, Oregon.

David Oliver at the 2015 Diamond League meet in Shanghai // photo USATF

Oliver ran a hugely respectable race in Eugene, finishing third in 13.14. Pascal Martinot-Lagard of France, 23, a rising star who last July in Monaco ran a 12.95, won the race, in 13.06. Aries Merritt, the 2012 London Games gold medalist and current world record holder, finished second, in 13.12.

Some more context: Oliver has the fourth-fastest 110 hurdles time ever, 12.89, run in his magical 2010 season, when — fully healthy — he was unbeaten in 15 finals races and held the top five times in the world. Merritt’s world record: 12.80, run in 2012.

Oliver has long been active in USA Track & Field’s volunteer programs with kids. He consistently has been straightforward in defeat and humble in victory.

Johnson has for decades been one of the most recognizable figures within the U.S. track and field scene. In training, he runs what generously has been described as a “benevolent dictatorship.”

After receiving Johnson’s text, Oliver weighed what to do. In a telephone interview Tuesday, he said he decided he would let matters sit for 24 hours while he thought about things. He stayed that Saturday night in Eugene. The next day, while on a layover in San Francisco, “nothing [had] changed” in his mind, so he “broke out my phone” and wrote an email in response; then, including Johnson’s original text in quotes, he sent that email to a number of key associates.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 36 - June 2015 That email has since circulated in track and field circles.

Both Johnson’s text message, and Oliver’s email response, are reprinted in their entirety below. As Oliver put it, that way there can be “no confusion and no one will be able to put any spin on what went down and my integrity would not be impugned by anyone involved to say I did something disrespectful or no one understands why this happened or anything like that.

“I want it laid out specifically so that this is exactly why I can no longer work in this kind of environment. I am 33 years old, I have my own family and I will not tolerate having people talk to me or addressing me with disre- spect. That’s the thing that is my message.”

Johnson, when reached by telephone, and informed it was a reporter calling — after having previously been sent a two-part text message inquiring about the Oliver email — said, “So?”

Asked on the phone about the email, he said, “That was supposed to be a private exchange and as far as I’m con- cerned it’s still a private exchange.”

Asked then why he wrote Oliver the text message in the first instance, he said, “It’s none of your damn busi- ness.”

When asked if further questions would be helpful, Johnson said, “I’m not motivated to diminish athletes. Any defense I might make to what has happened might diminish him. That was never my motivation.” Here, then, is the Oliver email in full — again, beginning with Johnson’s text message included in quotes. Re- cipients’ names have been removed.

From: David Oliver Date: May 31, 2015 at 4:28:08 PM EDT To: Subject: Re: Coach’s Comments This is a message I received from Brooks after the race in Pre:

“Lets make sure we understand each other. You are making the very same mistakes of judgement and discipline that all the others before you have made by allowing off the track shit to take away and distract from the total focus and concentration needed to be at your very best on the track. Between your fucking agent and your in- ability to say “no” you are going to piss away an Olympic gold and a lot of excellence,success and $$$$ in be- tween. If you are that needy that you will exchange bullshit for performance then let me be the first to tell you that you are well on your way to succeeding in creating your own diminishment.”

This is the text message that I received from you, two minutes after I saw you face to face and you had nothing to say. Aside from displaying a level of cowardice, it is also beyond disrespectful. Clearly, what I feel the level of respect that should exist is not a two way street and only existed in my mind. Since text messaging/emailing complaints and grievances is your favored way of problem solving, I will reciprocate.

Not sure what your initial thoughts were, but I guess you call yourself taking issue with my attending my best friends wedding before the competition (7 full days before). I would totally be on board with your message had I shown up to the competition the day before and went out and ran 13.40 and embarrassed myself. Was the race at Pre perfect? Of course not, but it was my fastest run since the finals at Worlds in 2013. You seemed to gloss over that fact, as well as the fact that I’ve run incrementally faster every time I have stepped on the track this season. So if I ran 13.07 and won Pre instead of 13.14, would your message be the same? Seven-hundredths of a second really set that off?

Also, not sure what my managers had to do with your rant, but at the end of the day, you, along with them, work TAFWA Newsletter - Page 37 - June 2015 for me, not the other way around. Everyone is suppose to be a part of my team, trying to help me get to where I’m trying to go. In no other business setting would your message to me been viewed as acceptable. I guess you are still mistaking me for the 22 year old, wide eyed kid with barely any life experiences you first met. Like you say when its convenient for you “you either adapt, or become extinct like the dinosaurs”, you clearly have failed to adapt to the fact that I do not need you, at 33 years of age, as much as you need me. When I finally woke up to that fact fall of 2012 and started doing what I felt I needed to do when it came to training and doing things on my own (which I’ve continued doing since) I found myself right back where I was suppose to be, instead of run- ning backwards like I was doing 2011/2012 had a stuck to your gym/track program exclusively.

I have always been loyal and have glossed over so much disrespect from you in the past, rather it be in Monaco in 08, Tiff has us nearly missing our flight to Beijing, but “Tiff can do whatever she wants, she has a better chance of meddling than you do” or in 2011 at dinner with a table full of people, night before racing in Zagreb, unprovoked and inside your feelings about something, silencing the table with a “that’s why Richardson’s whip- ping your ass now” barb. I was on the verge of saying right back “or maybe you’re just being out coached by ” but that would have been very disrespectful and unprofessional. I could go on and on. I have always let all that type of stuff roll like water off a ducks back, but the unmitigated gall you had to type out that message to me, especially since I was just face to face with you, was the last straw.

Your theme for me this year seems to be you’re “witnessing a lot of competitive leakage” (whatever that means), well let me be honest, I have witnessed the steady decline and “training leakage” in your program for quite a while. I have my training logs to validate that fact. We use to be proactive, aggressive and have a clear cut plan of attack for every week. Now, it’s reactive (somebody start is off in a race, all we will do is starts in training all week), passive (somebody gets hurt in a sprint workout, we won’t sprint for months, yet we are all SPRINT HURDLERS.

Back in the day if you got hurt, the workout continued and you just jogged miles on the track til you came back healthy). I was nearly 31 years old before I started getting a day off from training, now 24 year old athletes who need to be honing their craft are taking days off. The program has gone soft and is fostering soft minded athletes. I am tired of asking and hinting at trying to do the workouts that I know were key in my development. Why was a couple months ago the first time we marked off the 16 hurdle workout, although the new track has been in place since Jan ’13? Competitive race model? 45s down the track? Mock event workout? Trust I was still getting those done, just on my own. In my estimation, you have gone from a coach who was deeply passionate about the development of athletes, to one just happy to collect checks. No disrespect intended, but I’m just be- ing a “brutally honest mirror”

I am not interested in stress/drama/negativity at this point in my career, so as you always say, “you’re either part of the problem, or part of the solution” you have become part of the problem. You also say “it is your own career” and since I seem to be all of a sudden becoming “a needy athlete well on my way to succeeding in creat- ing my own diminishment”, I will do so on my own terms.

I would not be where I am in my career/life if it were not for the ten years I spent under your tutelage and that fact can not and will not ever be diminished. Just like every relationship doesn’t end in marriage, we have closed the last chapter in this coach/pupil relationship. Thank you for everything and much continued success.

David Oliver

TAFWA Newsletter - Page - 38 - June 2015 ------Forwarded message ------From: Race Results Weekly Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:15 AM Subject: RRW: University Of Oregon’s Running Tours Show Beauty, History of Track Town USA

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON’S RUNNING TOURS SHOW BEAUTY, HISTORY OF TRACK TOWN USA

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom

PHOTO: Race Results Weekly Assistant Editor Chris Lots- bom poses outside of Autzen Stadium on the campus of the University of Oregon during a running tour (Race Results Weekly photo)

(01-Jun) -- Students at the University of Oregon are in the final stretch of the spring term, working hard to prepare for final ex- ams and end-of-year papers. Some students are ready to walk on stage and accept their diplomas, while a number of student-ath- letes are in the thick of post-season compe- tition. The track and field team earned 45 entries (counting both individual qualifiers and relays) into this month’s NCAA Champi- onships, while the women’s softball team seeks a national title of their own.

For students Tyde Kaneshiro and Hayden Fancher, last weekend wasn’t all about prepping for exams or soaking in the last few weeks of the school year. Lacing up their Nike shoes and heading outside, the pair prepped for a casual run through the area -- with a twist. The two human physiology majors are student-ambassadors for the University, share a love of running, and frequently guide free running tours around the University of Oregon campus.

Kaneshiro, a native of Hawaii, and Fancher, from California, are part of a group of students who lead running tours at the University, guiding prospective students, track and field fans, and other visitors through a journey detailing running history in the area. The first of its kind in the nation, the running tour is a chance for the school to connect with its Track Town USA heritage, while showing off places to run and relax off campus.

Of course, the University of Oregon and the sport of track and field have long been synonymous in American history. The sport has direct ties to Eugene, with Olympic Trials being hosted there, and the University produc- ing numerous American record-holders, dozens of Olympians and countless All-Americans.

Most notably are the impacts that key figures like coaches , , and had on the sport, along with pupil and former student-athlete . Bowerman helped establish the running boom in America, while also innovating the running shoe industry in America, working with Knight to establish the global sportswear company Nike.

The running ties and connections to the University of Oregon campus are endless, from athletes like , Steve Prefontaine, and , to sport stalwarts like Bowerman and Vin Lananna.

According to Molly Blancett, Media Relations Manager for University of Oregon Advancement, the Oregon run- ning tour began last fall as a way of “highlighting what a great place the UO/Eugene is for a running enthusiast TAFWA Newsletter - Page 39 - June 2015 and [to] discuss our rich history and tradition around the sport.” Our aim is to show off great places off campus as well,” Blancett wrote in an e-mail to Race Results Weekly.

PHOTO: A panoramic photo of historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon (Photo by Chris Lotsbom for Race Results Weekly)

University of Oregon alum, two-time Olympian, and current Oregon Track Club Elite member Andrew Wheat- ing led the first tour last fall. Since then, the tours have steadily grown in popularity.

Running 3.7 miles on trails and bike paths surrounding the University of Oregon campus, ambassadors lead visitors on a journey through history. Beginning on campus at the Ford Alumni Center, tours start off with a quick note on coaches Hayward and Bowerman, and the early days of the Oregon track and field program. On display in the Ford Alumni Center is a classic waffle iron depicting the one Bowerman famously used to create the first rubber-souled running shoes.

From there, the tour crosses the , circles Alton Baker Park (the largest park in Eugene, where numerous road races are held), and then runs on the ever popular and historic Pre’s Trail, a wood-chip route that is frequented by many top athletes in the area. Making stops every couple of minutes, tour guides keep a run- ning dialogue on the history of track in Eugene, and it’s connections to the area. They also speak highly of the places and routes to run in Eugene, with over 250 miles of trails and paths to explore.

For track and field aficionados who love the sport’s history, some of the stories are familiar -- such as the rise and tragic death of Prefontaine, how Nike developed from Blue Ribbon Sports to the behemoth it is today, and how Bowerman’s early jogging classes at the University started a revolution in the sport.

Yet even the most well-versed track fans could learn a thing or two from the tidbits, factoids, and stories told that don’t often appear in running books or documentaries on the area.

For example, did you know that the University of Oregon ‘O’ sports logo is believed to be a representation of both Hayward Field and Autzen Stadium, the latter of which is the University’s football stadium? The outside of the ‘O’ logo is shaped to replicate the dimensions of the football stadium, while the inside of the ‘O’ is the clear shape of a running track meant to be Hayward Field.

That was just one of the interesting factoids shared during the tour. (This reporter doesn’t want to spoil some of the other fun stories out of consideration for those thinking of taking the tour).

Both guides Kaneshiro and Fancher spoke about the area’s beauty, what’s best about being a student at the Uni- versity, and how all walks of life come together to support Duck student athletes on the football field, track, and in other realms.

After stopping briefly at Autzen Stadium, the tour continues on Pre’s Trail, heads back to the center of Campus, TAFWA Newsletter - Page 40 - June 2015 and loops by Hayward Field. Traditionally, the tour ends with a victory lap on Hayward Field’s hallowed track. This particular tour was not able to round the oval due to the set-up going on, but still got a chance to experience the “Cathedral of American Running.” For any runner or fan of the sport, whether casual or dedicated, the chance to run at Hayward Field is one not to pass up.

Offered at 8:30 a.m. the first and third Fridays of each month, excluding campus closures and federal holidays, the University of Oregon running tours are a great opportunity to learn about the area’s quaint surroundings and lengthy sporting history. Run at an easy pace --and willing to accommodate to runners of all abilities-- the tour provides a one-of-a-kind look at Track Town USA.

For more information on University of Oregon Running Tours, visit https://admissions.uoregon.edu/visit/running-tour.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 41 - June 2015 https://www.propublica.org/article/former-team-members-accuse-coach-alberto-salazar-of-breaking- drug-rules

Off Track: Former Team Members Accuse Famed Coach Alberto Salazar of Breaking Drug Rules Some top runners and others who’ve worked with Salazar allege that he experimented with testosterone and pressured athletes to use prescription medications they didn’t need to gain a performance benefit.

By David Epstein | ProPublica, June 3, 2015, 1:03 p.m.

Steve Magness, now head cross-country coach at the University of Houston, thought the Oregon Project job would be a dream come true. Within months, he was disillusioned by what he saw as Alberto Salazar’s pursuit of a phar- maceutical edge. (Michael Stravato for ProPublica)

About This Investigation This ProPublica story was done in partnership with the BBC programPanorama and its reporter Mark Daly. On Wednesday, Panorama is devoting its hourlong program to a three-part investigation into the use of drugs in track and field. ProPublica teamed with BBC on the final part.

Steve Magness watched the 2012 London Olympics 10,000-meters final from his couch in Houston. As soon as the runners crossed the line, his phone lit up with congratulatory texts. Just two months earlier, Magness had been assistant coach and scientific adviser to the prestigious Nike Oregon Project, a decade-long effort to help top American distance runners compete with the juggernaut of Kenyans and Ethiopians. Now, in this 10K, the Project had its magnum opus.

In a frenetic sprint to the finish, Great Britain’s Mo Farah and American Galen Rupp—friends and training partners at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon—pulled away from a pack of east Africans to cross the line first and second, a mere half-second apart, before turning to embrace. Ethiopian men had won the previous four Olympic 10Ks, and the last time an American man earned a medal of any color was in 1964, 22 years before Rupp was born. A giant banner featuring a photo of the duo’s exultant finish would soon adorn a fitness center on Nike’s campus, the same center recently un-named for cyclist Lance Armstrong.

And yet, Magness could not revel in the laudatory texts. “It’s supposed to be this grand moment where you played a role in helping someone do something that no one thought was possible, and it’s the complete oppo- site,” Magness recalls. Instead, it was “one of the most disheartening moments of my life.”

That’s because Magness is convinced that the Oregon Project’s head coach—running icon Alberto Salazar—had achieved the pinnacle of distance running success by cheating.

Now, as the run-up to the 2016 Olympics begins in earnest, Magness and other former Oregon Project em- ployees and athletes—among them some of the most respected in track— are speaking out. In interviews with ProPublica and the BBC, they allege that Salazar, the most powerful coach in U.S. track, is violating the medical TAFWA Newsletter - Page 42 - June 2015 and anti-doping rules of the sport.

A banner depicting the Oregon Project’s crowning moment—gold and silver in the Olympic 10K—draped a fitness center on the Nike campus in Beaverton that was previously named after Lance Armstrong.

“He is sort of a win-at-all-costs person and it’s hurt- ing the sport,” says Kara Goucher, the nation’s most prominent female distance runner. She left the Or- egon Project in 2011, after seven years.

Their allegations against Salazar range from experi- menting with well-known doping aids, such as testos- terone, to giving athletes prescription medications they either didn’t need or weren’t prescribed in hopes of gaining a competitive advantage from their side effects. Some runners say they joked that being fast was only one prerequisite for joining the team—you also had to have prescriptions for thyroid hormone or asthma medication.

To use some asthma drugs legally, World Anti-Doping Agency rules require athletes to have a documented con- dition and obtain a waiver. Thyroid hormone is now prescribed so rampantly among world-ranking endurance runners that both athletes and some anti-doping officials—including UK Anti-Doping—are pushing for restric- tions on its use. It’s unclear whether the hormone, which counters the weight gain that can come with a thyroid condition, delivers a performance-enhancing effect for athletes who don’t need it. Still, body builders have long abused thyroid hormone right before competitions in an effort to cut fat rapidly and enhance their ripped look. Over the past three years, Goucher and at least six other former Project athletes and staff members have pri- vately spoken with the U.S Anti-Doping Agency.

USADA spokeswoman Annie Skinner says the agency doesn’t confirm the existence of ongoing investigations, but adds, “We aggressively follow up on every report.” USADA’s public testing data, however, shows Rupp was drug-tested 28 times in 2013, the most of any Ameri- can athlete, and 11 more times than the previous year. (Rupp has never failed a drug test.)

Fresh off 2012 Olympic success, Alberto Salazar discusses his approach to training with journalists at the Nike campus in Beaverton. Salazar is the most powerful coach in American professional running. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

In an email responding to written questions from the BBC and ProPublica, Salazar stresses that he “strictly followed” WADA rules and sought guidance from USADA if he had questions. He says he has never endorsed the use of any performance enhancing drug and has “never coached an athlete to manipulate testing procedures or undermine the rules that govern our sport.”

“No athlete within the Oregon Project uses a medication against the spirit of the sport we love,” Salazar writes. In emails, both Rupp and Farah say that they have never used performance enhancing drugs nor has Salazar suggested they take a banned substance. None of the former Oregon Project athletes and employees who spoke with ProPublica and the BBC implicated Farah in any inappropriate drug use.

The questions about Salazar’s methods come at a pivotal moment in track and field worldwide. The U.S. sprint- ing corps has been rattled in recent years by the doping suspensions of several of its stars. The list includes TAFWA Newsletter - Page 43 - June 2015 American 100-meter record holderTyson Gay and his former coach Jon Drummond, himself an Olympic gold medal sprinter, who were suspended over the use of a cream that had testosterone and a testosterone precursor right on the label.

Earlier this month, 33-year-old American sprinter , who served a doping suspension from 2006- 2010, ran by far the fastest 100-meters of the year, igniting a debate about whether he is still doping or could even be benefiting from past drug use.

In December, a German television documentary provided evidence of widespread collusion in Russia between athletes, officials, and doping-control officers to provide drugs and cover up positive tests in return for hush money extorted from athletes.

Even east Africa’s primacy in the world’s elite marathons suffered a blow when it was revealed last year that Kenyan Rita Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons, had tested positive for EPO, which increases the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells.

Perhaps unprecedented in sport, the clamor for more stringent drug policies in track isloudest from the ath- letes—and not only because of the damage to the sport’s image. Unlike in team sports, individual athletes feel the loss of achievement and earnings more directly if their competitors are doping.

“If the sport’s to be saved,” Goucher says, “it can’t keep going on the way it is.” ______

The Oregon Project’s successes have been seen almost in a patriotic light, getting the U.S. back in the game through hard work directed by one of distance running’s most celebrated competitors. Just two years before London, Magness—whose 4:01 mile ranks him among the top 10 high school milers of all-time —could hardly believe his good fortune when Salazar personally recruited him as his number 2 at the Oregon Project. A legend- arily tough athlete, Salazar once raced so hard he was given last rites after crossing the finish line.

Unquestionably, he is one of the greatest distance runners in American history, having won three straight New York City marathons in the 1980s, one in world-record time. He also has a building named after him on the Nike campus, and is a personal friend of Nike founder Phil Knight—both were distance runners at the University of Oregon. Salazar was named head coach of the Oregon Project when it started in 2001, at the nadir of American distance running. The previous year, the U.S. qualified just one man and one woman to compete in the Olympic marathon.

Since then, Salazar has become the most famous running coach in America, and perhaps the world. As his athletes sprinted to the line in London, a TV commentator blared: “Can it be a one-two for the Salazar group?!” Over the last decade, a huge portion of the most promising pro distance runners in America have been in Salazar’s charge, from Dathan Ritzenhein, the third fastest American marathoner ever, who held the American 5K re- cord in 2009 and 2010; to Alan Webb, who holds the American mile record of 3:46. Salazar was able to entice some of these athletes not just with his name, but with all that Nike’s budget could provide: specialized coaches for strength and conditioning and sports psychology, masseuses, personalized lab tests, altitude tents, a “Space Cabin” cryo-chamber, even an underwater treadmill.

Salazar is known for grueling workouts — those he did as an athlete, and now those he plans for his runners — and his penchant for seeking an edge through medicine, supplements and technol- ogy. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

His renown grew from the successes of several of these athletes and for his penchant for experimenting with sci- TAFWA Newsletter - Page 44 - June 2015 ence and technology to bestow an edge.

The willowy Rupp has been a public testament to Salazar’s methods since 2008, when he made the U.S. Olympic team while still in college. By 2014, he had set three American records, and had earned a reputation for doing intense workouts shortly after racing at competitions. Unlike other Project athletes who came to Salazar as pros, Rupp has been with Salazar since he serendipitously impressed him while doing a conditioning workout as a soccer-playing high school freshman. Even as he worked with other athletes, Salazar’s mission has always been to make Rupp the best runner in the world. So singular was that focus that other Oregon Project athletes derisively referred to their team as the Galen Rupp Project. As Salazar put it in his memoir: “I wanted to start the Oregon Project with the best available professional runners, but ultimately, Galen was going to be the star.”

Salazar has previously said that joining the ranks of the world’s best might not be achievable without pharma- ceutical help. In a 1999 speech at Duke University, he said that he believed it’s difficult “to be among the top five in the world in any of the distance events without using EPO or human growth hormone.” He said that his own “desire to win” would be “very hard to ignore in the current age where many athletes feel it is impossible to be competitive against the best in the world without doping.” (Shortly after Salazar gave that speech, WADA and USADA were created, and Salazar now says “our sport is in a better place today since they were formed.”) None of this was on Magness’ mind when Salazar beckoned.

He was a 25-year-old exercise science grad student when he packed up and moved to Oregon for what he expect- ed to be a dream job as assistant coach and scientific adviser to the best distance runners in the country. ______

Just a year-and-a-half later, though, Magness left, thoroughly disillusioned with a program that pushed into the gray area of medicating athletes to gain an advantage, and one he came to believe had crossed the line into outright doping.

In February 2011, barely a month into his tenure at the Oregon Project, Magness had his first run-in with a medical practice that bothered him. Rupp was headed to Dusseldorf to run an indoor 5K. But before he left, Salazar wanted him to take prednisone, a corticosteroid often used for asthma, Magness says. Because cortico- steroids can block pain and potentially enhance oxygen consumption, and because overuse can suppress one’s immune system, the medication required an official therapeutic use exemption in order to be used in competi- tion. An athlete with such an exemption has been granted use of an otherwise restricted drug or treatment for medical purposes.

International anti-doping rules allow for expedited (and even retroactive) exemptions when acute medical problems need treatment, but Salazar and Rupp were unable to procure an exemption, Magness says. Rupp took the medication anyway, and while he flew ahead to , Magness was directed by Salazar to fly to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to have a bottle of Rupp’s urine tested. “They did that to see if it tested positive,” Magness says. “I hand-carried Galen’s urine through the airport, onto the plane, and into my rental car and drove to this clinic and dropped it off, and that was it.” He never learned the result of the test. Magness then flew to Dusseldorf to meet Rupp prior to the race. Soon after he arrived, Rupp told him he wasn’t feeling well. Magness called Salazar, who he says told him to expect a package. Two days later, a box arrived at his hotel room. Inside it he found a paperback thriller. Confused, he flipped it open. A section of the pages had been hollowed out to form a compartment into which two pills were taped. “At that point,” Magness says, “my mind was like, this is stuff you see in movies, this is extremely strange.” He handed the pills to Rupp, who he says promptly swallowed them and laughed off the clandestine packaging as typical Salazar antics. Magness, who had been on the job less than two months, says he never asked what the pills were. At the end of the week, Rupp placed fourth in the 5K in Germany. Neither Salazar nor Rupp responded to questions about the hollowed- out book containing pills.

In his email, Salazar says Rupp had an asthma flare up and there was not enough time to get a therapeutic use exemption, or TUE. The testing was to ensure the medication was completely out of his system. In a separate TAFWA Newsletter - Page 45 - June 2015 email, Rupp says if he has “used a medicine that is permitted out-of-competition but is only permitted in com- petition with a TUE, then I will not compete in a race unless I have received a TUE or I am certain the substance is no longer in me.”

Rupp adds that he has had asthma and severe allergies since childhood, “long before I met Alberto,” and, “at all times, my medical treat- ment has been for health reasons.”

On a document recording Rupp’s blood tests, Steve Magness was stunned to see: “presently on prednisone and testoster- one medication.” Magness asked Salazar about it but was unsatisfied with the explanation.

One month after the mystery pills, Magness was sitting at his cubicle on the Nike campus when documents from the on-campus lab were delivered to Salazar’s nearby desk. The lab documents contained years’ worth of ath- letes’ blood testing records, which were used to see how runners responded to altitude training meant to boost their levels of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin. According to Magness, Salazar told him to peruse the records and share his observations.

When Magness came to a page charting Rupp’s hemoglobin, he was stunned to find a note that corresponded to a date when Rupp was still in high school: “presently on prednisone and testosterone medication.” Magness al- ready knew Rupp used prednisone, but various testosterone medications comprise perhaps the greatest scourge in all of sports doping, and are strictly banned save for cases of extreme medical need.

Bewildered, Magness huddled anxiously in a secluded stairwell. He took pictures of the documents with his phone, and then reached out for advice. “I called my parents,” he says, to ask what he should do. They told him to ask Salazar to clarify the document.

Magness returned to his desk. He sat nervously for 15 minutes before working up the courage to follow his par- ents’ advice, hoping there was a convincing reason for what he saw. Instead, Magness says Salazar immediately impugned the sanity of longtime Nike lab physiologist, Loren Myhre, and suggested that Myhre’s battle with ALS must have diminished his faculties. (Myhre passed away in 2012, but the record Magness asked about was from 2002, a year when Myhre was given an award by Nike for his work, according to an obituary.) Salazar said Myhre was “crazy and he must be mixing it up with something else,” Magness says.

“It’s like, well, you’re still taking advice from this guy, so why now all of a sudden is he crazy?” Magness recalls thinking. Salazar told him they should imme- diately send the documents to the lab to get the matter cleared up. The documents were taken away, but Magness says he never heard about it again.

Despite his growing reputation as a coach and sports science writer, Magness is fearful of the consequences of speaking out. “I never wanted to be in this position,” he says. “It would be much easier to just shut up.” (Michael Stravato for ProPublica)

ProPublica and the BBC confirmed with Magness’s parents and another runner that

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 46 - June 2015 Magness had told them about this incident at the time—including Salazar’s response—and his worries about what it might mean.

“My stomach dropped,” Magness says. “Looking back on it, it essentially took me from almost this innocent kind of wide-eyed person to just shattering all that, to making me jaded, skeptical.”

In emails, both Salazar and Rupp say that Rupp has never taken testosterone or any testosterone medication. Salazar says the notation was incorrect and actually referred to a nutritional supplement called Testoboost that Rupp was taking “in an effort to counterbalance the negative effects of prednisone.” Testoboost, he says, is a “legal supplement” that Rupp has disclosed to USADA whenever applicable.

In the coming months, a second situation led Magness to question how Salazar was using testosterone, a con- trolled substance that is illegal without an appropriate prescription. Magness says he shared an office cubicle at Nike with Salazar’s son, Alex, who helped work out the team budget. Alex was occasionally used as a guinea pig to test supplements and then get evaluated in the lab. In one instance, Magness says Alex told him that he was testing testosterone gel: rubbing some on, getting tested in the lab, rubbing some more on, getting tested in the lab. Magness and another Oregon Project athlete separately say the reason Salazar gave for the testing was to determine how much of the gel it would take to trigger a positive test in case a rival attempted to sabotage an Oregon Project athlete by furtively rubbing it on one of them at a race. “It seemed ludicrous,” Magness says. He believes “it was them trying to figure out how to cheat the tests...So it’s how much can we take without trigger- ing a positive.”

Neither Alex nor Alberto Salazar responded to questions about whether or why they engaged in testosterone testing.

“Why are you fooling around with something like testosterone anyways?” Magness says. “And furthermore, why are you putting testosterone on your son, who presumably has no medical need for it?”

With his anxiety rising, Magness, who is now head coach of the University of Houston cross-country team and an exercise science PhD student, says he became less dedicated to his work. “I didn’t believe in what we were do- ing,” he says. In mid-2012, he and Salazar sat down and mutually agreed to part ways.

Two months later, rather than reveling at the thrilling conclusion to the London 10K, he decided then and there to call the U.S Anti-Doping Agency, and share what he’d seen. “I never wanted to be in this position,” says Magness, who, despite his growing reputation as a coach and sports science writer, still fears the professional repercussions of speaking publicly about Salazar. “It would be much easier to just shut up.” ______

Magness wasn’t the only one troubled by Salazar’s explanations about what he was doing with testosterone gel. In 2008, John Stiner was a massage therapist working on Oregon Project athletes at their altitude camp in Utah when, he says, Salazar called him with a special request.

The athletes had left the camp, and he wanted Stiner to clean up the condo and ship some items to him. Then, Salazar surprised Stiner. “He said to me, ‘I don’t want you to get the wrong idea’,” Stiner recalls. “And he goes, ‘There’s a tube of Androgel in the bedroom, and it’s under some clothing.’ “ Androgel is testosterone medication prescribed for men who aren’t producing enough testosterone naturally. According to Stiner, Salazar told him: “It’s for my heart, it’s all fucked up.”

The previous year, Salazar had nearly died of a heart attack. The title of his 2012 memoir, “14 Minutes: A Run- ning Legend’s Life and Death and Life,” is a reference to the length of time his heart had stopped.

In the bathroom, Stiner says he found the bright green pills of a supplement called Alpha Male, and then, in the bedroom Rupp and Salazar had used, he found the testosterone gel amid clothing. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 47 - June 2015 Stiner shipped it to Oregon, and Salazar reimbursed him for the expense. He only grew suspicious later, when he did Internet searches for testosterone gel and saw that it was contra-indicated for people with serious heart trouble. ProPublica and the BBC asked several prominent cardiologists in the United States and the United Kingdom whether testosterone would ever be prescribed to treat a heart condition. All said it would be unusual to prescribe testosterone to someone with a serious heart condition, because it might increase the risk of death. And all said that it certainly would not be prescribed in order to treat a heart condition. Salazar did not respond to a question about whether he was prescribed testosterone and, if so, why.

Salazar reimbursed Stiner for the cost of shipping the Androgel.

One runner who worked with the Oregon Project for several years told ProPublica and the BBC that he went to the Nike lab to see Dr. Myhre in 2007 because he felt run down.

“I did a blood test at Nike,” the runner says. He says he was told his “thyroid was low and testosterone was low.” He says that Myhre suggested he go get thyroid hormone and testosterone from a doctor that Salazar sent athletes to. Myhre, he says, assured him, “This is what Alberto does. You’ll feel better and you’ll be able to train better.”

The runner says he then questioned whether it was cheating, to which he says Myhre told him, “Well no, I mean Alberto does it.”

The runner asked whether taking testosterone would cause a positive test, and recalls Myhre said: “No. No. No. We’ll get you into the normal range.”

Giving low doses of testosterone, a process known as “micro-dosing,” is often justified as simply boosting some- one up to normal or optimal levels. But even small doses can aid muscle building and recovery from workouts, as well as promote the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. And micro-dosing—a technique that owes its fame to Lance Armstrong—has bedeviled anti-doping organizations because it is difficult to detect. Salazar and Nike-sponsored distance running teams have been enmeshed in rumors of possible testosterone use before.

In 1996, Salazar was coaching American running legend when she tested positive for high levels of testosterone. Decker, who had been a teen phenom—she still holds three American records—was then 37, and had just qualified for the 5K at the Atlanta Olympics. Both denied wrongdoing at the time.

Decker and Salazar had been athletes on the Nike-sponsored team in the 1980s, when, accord- ing to the 1993 book “Swoosh” — co-written by Nike’s first advertising director — Athletics West athletes were using steroids with the knowledge of team officials. Salazar has always denied doping, and Nike dismissed “Swoosh” as slantedbecause the author’s husband had gone on to work with Nike competitor Adidas. ______

Since Magness discussed his concerns with USADA in 2012, at least a half-dozen other former Oregon Project athletes and employees have spoken with anti-doping officials, according to statements they made to ProPublica and the BBC.

Some athletes have described procedures that stay just on the right side of the rules. In March, the UK’s Sunday Times detailed Oregon Project athletes taking injections of a supplement—L-carnitine—that can be found in powder and pill form on the shelves of any GNC. The supplement is generally marketed as boosting energy and cutting fat, and anti-doping rules allow such injections as long as athletes take no more than 50ml per six hours. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 48 - June 2015 At Salazar’s request, Magness says he served as a beta-tester, and was given more than that to see if it could improve his running efficiency. It did, he says, but only at paces far slower than those of elite racers. No evidence has emerged that any active Oregon Project athletes exceeded the limit, so the injections appear to be unusual, but clearly permissible.

Both Kara and are among the most prominent American run- ners of a generation, and both ran under Salazar from 2004 to 2011. Says Kara: “I’m tired of saying I’m off the Oregon Project because I had a baby and I no longer fit in.” (Benjamin Rasmussen for ProPublica)

Regardless, the L-carnitine use prompted intense discus- sion in the running world because of Salazar’s previous insistence that his athletes use no special supplements. At the 2013 World Championships, he told the Telegraph: “None of our athletes are on any sports-specific supple- ment other than beta alanine, which is an amino acid. Other than that, it’s iron, vitamin D and that’s it. You don’t really need anything else.” One former Oregon Project athlete provided ProPublica with the labels of sup- plements Salazar recommended—all prior to his statement to the Telegraph—ranging from a product claiming to boost natural production of growth hormone, to one that listed the main ingredients as chemical formulas that scientists who later examined the label for ProPublica couldn’t decipher.

Runners were reticent to share their experiences because of the power Salazar holds in U.S. track, noting that last year Salazar’s protests got two non-Oregon Project athletes disqualified from the indoor national champion- ships, leading to considerable controversy. (Both were eventually reinstated.) Two Oregon Project athletes say Salazar encouraged them to use a prescription medication they either didn’t need or weren’t prescribed. A for- mer professional runner who was never associated with the Oregon Project, but used to compete against Salazar says that a few other athletes would privately call him “Albuterol Salazar,” after the name of a popular asthma drug, because he always seemed to have some prescription. ______

Kara Goucher, the most prominent female runner in America, struggles to keep her composure as she describes her painful transition from believing Salazar held the keys to her world-class dreams to believing his pursuit of success ignored the rules—and perhaps her health.

Goucher and her husband, Adam Goucher—also a former Oregon Project athlete—might reasonably be thought of as the first couple of long distance running in the U.S. They have between them seven college national cham- pionships, seven U.S. cross-country and track titles, and three Olympic teams. On a glistening spring day at their home in Boulder, Colo., they let their exuberant four-year old son Colt outside to play, and, with great anxiety, spoke publicly for the first time about their concerns with the man who was once a central figure in their lives.

Kara Goucher, who won a bronze medal in the 10K at the 2007 world championships while being coached by Salazar, had previously only described him in superlative terms. “I was afraid to say anything,” she says. “I’m tired of saying I’m off the Oregon Project because I had a baby and I no longer fit in.”But the baby did play an indirect role in her discomfort with her former coach.

Five months after she gave birth to Colt in 2010, Salazar was unhappy about Goucher’s weight, she says. Sala- zar had previously recommended that several female runners he deemed overweight take over-the-counter supplements marketed as fat-burners. But for Goucher, he had something different in mind. “You need to just take some Cytomel,” she says he told her. Cytomel is the brand name for a form of synthetic thyroid hormone, prescribed when the thyroid is naturally underactive, which can lead to weight gain and fatigue. When Goucher asked how she would get it, she says Salazar told her, “Just ask Galen for some of his, he has a prescription for it.” TAFWA Newsletter - Page 49 - June 2015 Goucher was already taking one synthetic thyroid hormone, Levoxyl, which she had been prescribed before coming to the Oregon Project for an underactive thyroid caused by Hashimoto’s disease. She called her endocri- nologist and asked whether she should also take Cytomel. “He said absolutely not. You don’t need that, don’t take it,” Goucher says. Cytomel’s label specifically says that prescribed dosages of thyroid hormone drugs are not effective for weight loss, and that larger doses “may produce serious or even life-threatening manifestations of toxicity.”

“Maybe four or five days go by,” Goucher says, “and Alberto brought me [Cytomel] that I didn’t have a prescrip- tion for.” The pill bottle’s label had been ripped off and Salazar had hand-written Cytomel on it. Goucher says she didn’t take it, and Adam Goucher added that her endocrinologist later chastised Salazar, telling him to stop playing doctor. Neither Salazar nor Rupp responded to ques- tions about Cytomel. Both of the Gouchers say that Salazar viewed the therapeutic use ex- emption system as something simply to be gamed, at times shrugging off the regulations as stupid. At the world championships in 2007 and 2011, Kara Goucher says that Salazar coached Rupp on how to make sure he got an IV drip of saline before his races. While saline is certainly not a harmful substance, and there’s no proof an IV drip is a performance enhancer, WADA restricted the practice because athletes—most promi- nently Lance Armstrong—have used saline drips in order to increase their blood plasma volume and thereby mask the use of drugs.

According to Kara Goucher, Salazar wanted her to lose post-pregnancy weight. She says he gave her the thyroid hormone drug Cytomel, which she wasn’t prescribed, after her doctor told her not to take it. (Benjamin Rasmussen for ProPublica)

At the 2011 world championships in Daegu, South Korea, Kara Goucher was in a taxi with a U.S.A. Track and Field official when she says Salazar called the official, fuming that a U.S. doctor had declined to give Rupp an IV. She says Salazar insisted he would go to a British doctor instead.

Goucher says Salazar later told her how they would convince the doctor Rupp desperately needed an IV: “We have it down. I’ve coached [Rupp] on what to say. The doctors will ask him, ‘When was the last time you went to the bathroom?’ and he’ll say, ‘I don’t remember.’ They’ll say, ‘When was the last time you were able to drink?’ and he’ll say ‘I can’t’.” Neither Salazar nor Rupp responded to questions about the IV in Daegu. “They wanted the IV for whatever reason,” Goucher says, “to make Galen feel better, whatever, and they were manipulating the system to get it.”

Six months after the London Olympics, while Goucher was still a Nike athlete—she left in 2013, and is cur- rently aiming for the 2016 Olympics—the Gouchers went to USADA with their concerns. USADA officials spent hours interviewing them, they say, but they do not know the status of any investigation.

What Kara Goucher experienced—essentially Salazar’s self-appointed doctoring—violates the rules of the sport, not to mention prescription drug laws, but the Gouchers readily admit they have no smoking gun testi- fying to the kind of doping most familiar in distance running: blood doping and testosterone use. Still, Kara is deeply suspicious. “I had a conversation with Galen in 2011 in the British training camp [at the World Cham- pionships] in Daegu,” she says, “and he told me how tired he was and how exhausted he was, how he was so excited to have the season be over.” Three weeks later, Rupp broke the American 10K record.

“You don’t get to the end of a long year burnt out and take two weeks off and come out and run the best race of your life,” she says. “That’s not how it works. You have to rest. You have to recover. You have to start all over again.”

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 50 - June 2015 Like many pro runners, the Gouchers have seen their sport damaged by doping and shady medicine more than any other, save perhaps cycling. Women never set track and field records in a number of events anymore—or collect the corresponding pay bonuses—because some top results were put so far out of reach during a past era of mega-doping. As has happened to an extent in cycling, the Gouchers want a public scrubbing in track and field, so that someday every single great race need not precipitate an explosion of cynical message board threads and social media jabs.

Still, even as Kara Goucher feels she is unburdening herself by speaking publicly, the cheerful face that often stares out from running magazine covers collapses into tears.

“For years, he was a super important person in my life,” she says of Salazar. “I mean, I literally loved him. I loved him. He was like a father figure to me.” Her own father was killed by a drunk driver when she was four.

She remembers what Salazar said one night in 2011 as a group of Oregon Project runners gathered in an alti- tude training house in Park City, Utah, to watch “60 Minutes” as Lance Armstrong’s teammate Tyler Hamilton detailed the team’s doping. Salazar, she says, “was like, ‘Tyler’s just trying to sell books and he’ll write about Lance’.” Then, she says, Salazar added, “I mean, of course Lance is dirty” almost as an afterthought. But Goucher says it was clear who Salazar thought was in the wrong. “Tyler was this bad person,” she says.

Like all of the others, she’s frightened by the consequences of speaking out about her time with a team led by the country’s most renowned coach and sponsored by Nike, the leviathan company of her sport. She still cares about Salazar’s family, and she knows how she will be viewed. “He was very adamant,” Goucher says, “Tyler was the bad guy.” ______

About the investigation: The first part of the BBC’s story investigates sprinter Allan Wells, who became a house- hold name in the U.K. after he won the 100-meter dash at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. (The U.S. and 64 other countries boycotted those Games in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.) Wells never failed a drug test and has been an outspoken critic of athletes who dope. The BBC obtained secret recordings of a doctor who allegedly worked with Wells in which he says the sprinter was taking drugs.

The program also has previously unreleased sworn testimony from another sprinter who claims that both he and Wells used banned steroids.

During the program’s second part, Daly investigates the efficacy of the biological passport, which has been hailed by some as the solution to doping in sport. The passport is supposed to detect doping by monitoring fluctuations in an athlete’s blood over time. Daly, an amateur triathlete, ordered synthetic EPO—which prompts the body to create more oxygen-carrying red blood cells—over the internet from China, and used small doses under the monitoring of a doctor. Over seven weeks, the maximum amount of oxygen Daly’s body could use improved by 7 percent and he never failed the biological passport testing.

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Scotland How I became a drug cheat athlete to test the system By Mark Daly |BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent | 4 June 2015

Mark’s blood was taken once a week and sent off to a lab for analysis

It felt like I had crossed the line. I may not be an elite athlete, but I’m still an athlete. And I had just taken my first shot of EPO.

My goal was not to win a medal or make a team but to test the effec- tiveness of the athletes’ biological passport - the latest tool in the global fight against drugs in sport.

It was a decision I had not arrived at lightly. I had decided to do what no elite athlete could do - put the passport to the test by becoming a doper myself.

For a year I had been investigating allegations about doping in athletics and exploring the cliché that cheats are “one step ahead” of the authorities.

When the biological passport was introduced in 2009, it was seen by some as the saviour of clean sport. Even the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong said it “worked” and would have prevented him from the using the blood- doping techniques he used to win seven Tour de France titles.

Since 2012, about 50 track and field athletes have been banned for biological passport irregularities. But is that all of them?

And can clean athletes really be sure the passport is levelling the playing field?

THE PASSPORT

EPO is only available in the UK on prescription but it is possible to buy it online

There are different parts to the biological passport but the first one to be intro- duced, and the one we are interested in here, is the haematological (blood)

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 52 - June 2015 module of the passport.

EPO, or erythropoietin, is a natural substance produced within the kidneys that stimulates the creation of new red blood cells. Blood-boosting drugs like EPO, if injected, are only detectable in the urine or blood for a short window of time. The idea of the passport was to move away from searching for the actual drug, to looking for its effects.

The passport requires a series of samples from the athlete, at least four. These are used to establish normal, or baseline, blood values, which are then plotted on a graph. Once the athlete’s normal levels are established, natu- ral upper and lower limits are set. The two most important numbers are the volume of haemoglobin (mature red blood cells) and the percentage of reticulocytes (immature red blood cells). There is also a third key measure- ment, called the OFF Score, which is a ratio of those two numbers.

Carsten Lundby, one of the world’s leading experts on the effect drugs like EPO have on the body, told me EPO increases the amount of red blood cells in your blood stream and it is these cells that carry oxygen to your muscles.

“More oxygen, more power, the faster you go - pretty straightforward, actually,” said Lundby.

“The athlete biological passport can indicate that you have performed any type of blood doping. It will show that you have abnormal variations in your blood counts and that something fishy has gone on.”

Something “fishy” could be a blood transfusion, or an injection of EPO, but just how “fishy” does it have to be? Some scientists, including Lundby, have questioned the passport’s efficacy - especially when complicating factors like training at altitude are added to the mix - but also its sensitivity to micro-dosing, a little-but-often approach to doping.The performance benefit of micro-dosing will be smaller, but so too the risk of triggering a red flag.

MY EXPERIMENT

Mark had his fitness measured to supply a baseline for the experiment

I’ve always been fit, and have competed in dozens if not hun- dreds of cycling, run- ning, swimming and triathlon races. I’ve also completed two Ironman-distance tri- athlons - one of them in under 11 hours - so I’m ok, but would be unlikely to ever trouble a podium.

Even so, I decided I would not compete for the duration of the experiment. I got my- self an experienced coach, Kevin Henderson, who trained me for four months in the run-up to the experiment. I kept up some running and swimming, but concentrated on cycling, both on my indoor bike and on the road, in all weather. I got used to training about 12 hours per week.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 53 - June 2015 The effects were obvious. I was now able to stay with group rides I had previously only seen disappearing into the distance. I even managed a top 10 in one bike race, which was pretty good for me.

So, by the time I was ready to start the experiment, I was fitter than I’d ever been - so I would know that any marked improvements in my performance would most likely not be natural.

Kevin continued to train me throughout the experiment but kept the volume of training the same.

I also immersed myself in the science of blood doping and decided to base my own experiment on studies that had been carried out safely around the world. It would last for 14 weeks and have three phases. I would have my blood taken once a week and sent off to a lab for analysis. A doctor would monitor my health throughout.

* Baseline - weeks 1-3: establish what my “normal” blood levels are. Performance test at end of week 3 * Loading - weeks 4-10: undergo a programme of between 2-3 micro-dose injections of EPO per week. Each injection would be supervised. Performance test at end of week 10 * Washout - weeks 11-14: critical phase of the experiment, when I stop taking EPO and the passport is meant to be most effective.

The plan was to collect 14 blood analyses and have them put through the biological passport software to see if it would catch me.

But there were two major hurdles still to overcome: I needed the help of an accredited World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) scientist with access to the passport software, which is easier said than done; and I needed some EPO, which is only available in the UK on prescription, usually reserved for sick people with low blood counts. I eventually found someone, suitably accredited, within the anti-doping world to run my numbers through the software, but on the condition of anonymity.

So, one problem solved. But without the help of a compliant doctor, where could I get my hands on EPO?

The internet, of course.

My investigation was primarily at the elite end but it does not take a genius to work out that if these blood- boosters, designer steroids and hormones are available online, they will start to filter down into amateur sports. That is what Andy Parkinson, the former head of UK Anti-Doping, fears. He told me the internet had “dramati- cally” changed the fight against drugs in sport.

“Ten to 15 years ago, if you wanted to get your hands on a banned substance, you had to physically meet some- body and purchase it off them,” said Parkinson. “Now you can sit at home, go online and order pretty much what you want.

“The really terrifying thing of it is you have no idea what you’re buying.”

He is right there. I picked a website at random and ordered 10 vials of EPO.

The site appeared to be selling Chinese pharmaceutical supplies but I had to transfer £300 to someone called Tatiana who seemed to be based in eastern Europe. Three weeks passed and a package from China arrived. Now, it is not strictly illegal for me to be ordering pharmaceutical drugs over the internet for my own use, but I am pretty sure someone, somewhere, is breaking a law since the drugs arrived in packaging disguised as mobile phone covers. Having sent it to a lab to be verified as EPO, I was now ready to start.

After my three weeks at baseline, I had to undergo a performance test, called a VO2 max test, which measures fitness by calculating maximum oxygen uptake. This involved riding a static bike and gradually increasing the resistance, measured in watts, until I could pedal no more. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 54 - June 2015 To say this is a punishing experience just does not do it justice. I am wired up to a mask, which is difficult to breathe through, and surrounded by a film crew expecting big things.

I managed about 10-and-a-half minutes and a power output of 350 watts. I was almost sick.

I was pleased, though, to score a 58 on the test, which compares favourably to the average person’s 35 but rather pathetically against an elite athlete’s 70+.

Now that I had posted a “clean” performance marker, it was time to enter the loading phase.

I am not even at the top end of amateur sport but my first shot of a banned drug had an effect on me I was not prepared for: I had cheated for the first time and it felt terrible. I would not be competing on EPO, and maybe not for a long time afterwards, so none of my competitors would lose out because of what I was doing. But I had cheated and it felt wrong. I firmly believed what I was doing was in the public interest, though, so I put those thoughts to the back of my mind and got on with the training and with my investigation.

Within a couple of weeks I started to notice a difference, particularly on my longer rides. I appeared to have much more power at the end than I would normally have.

I kept a video diary during this period and one entry tells of a three-hour ride on a dark, cold night, when my legs were sore. It should have been deeply unpleasant, except it wasn’t. By the end of the ride, when I should have been wasted, I was as fresh as a daisy. This was to be become a feature.

By week eight, the changes were obvious. I was climbing big hills four hours into a ride as if they were not there. Like anyone who is into sport, I would usually come home after a good training session and have a great feeling about it. Now I was training at a level I had never reached but there was no joy in it - I knew it was not real. Very few people knew what I was doing. I had stopped training with friends, and I was constantly wondering about my blood levels and whether my numbers would trigger a red flag on the passport.

I knew the drugs were working - even though I had been taking tiny dosages - because my haemoglobin and reticulocyte numbers were rising steadily but I had no idea if my passport would pass off the fluctuations as normal. By week 10, I was fairly confident the drugs had given my training a hefty kick but I went back to the lab for another VO2 max test to make sure.

I flew past my previous mark and hung on for more than 12 minutes and 375 watts. This gave me a score of 63, a 7% increase in seven weeks. When you consider that even half a percentage point can make the difference in elite sport, that is a huge bump. There was no elation. More a weary acceptance of what I had suspected: if you put two people of equal ability up against one another, and one is on drugs, the cheat will almost certainly win.

GETTING AWAY WITH IT

I was now into week 11, the “washout” phase. I was still training but I had stopped taking EPO. This is the point that real cheats should be most worried because the body wants to reset its blood values to nor- mal, which, if it happens too quickly, can cause a spike in the OFF score, or a dip in the reticulocyte count. That can trigger a red flag in the biological passport. I had my blood samples taken as normal, always trying to stay as close to Wada’s rules about the samples being analysed within 36 hours. I sent away 14 samples taken over 14 weeks to my confidential anti-doping source, and these numbers were run through the passport software. Even though I was half-expecting it, I was still shocked when the result came through. I had passed.

Despite taking EPO for seven weeks, seeing steady rises in my haemoglobin and haematocrit counts, and gain- ing a significant performance benefit, I was clean.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 55 - June 2015 I am not able to publish the results because I need to protect my source, and I also do not want to reveal any- thing that could help others cheat, so I went back to Professor Lundby who helped interpret them for me. He said he could see “traces” of what I had done but “not of a sufficient magnitude to elicit an adverse analytical finding” in the passport.

“There is no evidence that you have injected yourself with EPO,” said Lundby.

“If you were an athlete, you would have gotten away with it.”

This confirmed my fears that the passport had put a stop to the worst excesses of the Lance Armstrong era but was not sensitive enough to pick up a careful programme of micro-dosing. Lundby was even more alarmed that this had been discovered by a rank amateur.

“What is worrying to me as a scientist, what’s new to me, is that an ordinary guy can look up some information on the internet, do some injections and get away with it,” he said.

When I went to to interview Wada’s chief executive David Howman, I put the findings of my experi- ment to him. “We certainly know that people try to get to the margins of beating systems and the passport will be no exception to that,” said Howman.

“(But the passport) has made a big difference. It’s substantially reduced, I would say, over-abuse of some of the blood doping that we knew in the past.

“It’s not a panacea. It’s another tool in the toolkit, so to speak, and it’s used not only to find somebody breaking the rules, (but) also to say: ‘This guy’s got a profile which is a bit wonky. Go and target-test that guy’.”

I have not been back on my bike since my experiment finished. It had opened my eyes, not just to the difference that taking performance-enhancing drugs could make - there’s nothing new in that - but to the ease with which I was able to get away it. No, I was not subjected to targeted testing, but with drugs like EPO having such a short detection time the testers have to get pretty lucky to get a positive from a urine sample.

I thought the passport was supposed to be the answer but, like Howman told me, it is not a cure for all sport’s ills.

And now that I know how effective banned drugs can be, I try to put myself in the shoes of clean athletes who suspect their competitors are doping.

How tough must that be? If I have learned anything - and if doping is as prevalent as some fear - it is that those athletes who choose to compete clean deserve our utmost respect and admiration.

Maybe I will get the bike back out this weekend.

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Elite Runner Had Qualms When Alberto Salazar Told Her to Use Asthma Drug for Performance by David Epstein | ProPublica, June 17, 2015, 10:16 a.m.

“I don’t think our sport is a lost cause, and I want to be part of the movement making it better,” Lauren Fleshman said. Above, Fleshman celebrates a victory in the 5K in 2006. (Messerschmidt/Getty Images)

Over the past two weeks, ProPublica and the BBC have reported allegations from professional runners and their support staff that iconic coach Alberto Salazar — head of the Nike Oregon Project and coach of the 10K gold and silver medalists in the last Olympics — violated anti-doping and prescription drug regulations. Salazar has denied the allegations.

Elite distance runner Lauren Fleshman says that Salazar helped her get treatment for asthma, but she became squeamish when he suggested that she use medication in a different manner than the doctor instructed. Flesh- man, 33, won five NCAA titles while at Stanford University, and won U.S. titles in the 5K in 2006 and 2010.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 57 - June 2015 She is a prominent figure in American running, not only by virtue of her on-track accomplishments, but also because she coaches, writes “The Fast Life” column for Runner’s World, is active onsocial media, and co-founded two businesses related to training and health.

Fleshman was previously part of a Nike-sponsored team, but was never coached by Salazar. She spoke with ProPublica reporter David Epstein about her experience seeking medical help from Salazar.This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. (Listen to the full interview below on Soundcloud.)

Alberto Salazar has never coached you, but you did go to him for some medical help. Can you tell us what it was? In 2005, I started having worse symptoms of exercise-induced asthma. I had gone to an allergy and asthma doctor on my own, and I got tested after the season was over in 2004 and didn’t fail the asthma test. The envi- ronmental triggers [like pollen] weren’t there. [The doctor] was like, sorry, you don’t have asthma, you can’t get a prescription.

Alberto set up an appointment in Portland, during allergy season, with a doctor who had seen many other run- ners. He had a specific protocol ... you would go to the local track and run around the track, work yourself up to having an asthma attack and then run down the street, up 12 flights of stairs to the office and they would be waiting to test you. So that’s what I did and I failed the test, and the doctor prescribed Advair for during the rac- ing season when pollen counts were the highest, and albuterol, which is a rescue inhaler.

Alberto was actually really great; he was instrumental in helping me get the appointment, taking me to the ap- pointment ... I was a Nike athlete; I wasn’t his athlete, but I was a Nike athlete, and to him that was enough.

How was the appointment? When I left is when I felt uncomfortable. The experience didn’t leave me not liking Alberto; I actually really like Alberto. After I got the medication, he explained to me that this is going to be great for you, so many athletes once they got on this, did so much better than they’d ever done before. And he described the ways that could happen: there’s a glucocorticosteroid in [Advair], and there’s a possibility that some of that could get systemical- ly into your body and give you an advantage, and you can legally take it because you have asthma ... He encour- aged me to push to be on the highest dose of it year round, which was something different than what the doctor had said.

There was this whole other level it seemed of how to use the medication, and it made me feel uncomfortable because it was clear to me that, well maybe there is some kind of advantage to this and how do I feel about that now that I have this medication. Is it ok? I guess legally it’s ok. Alberto is saying it’s ok ... It took me a while to process that.

Alberto and the doctor had different ideas of how you should use the medication, right? There were three dosage levels of Advair ... and the highest one is for extreme situations. So when I came to the doctor I was really flared up ... so he didn’t think it was a bad idea to start with that to calm things down, then the idea was to change to something lower ... because there are side effects to those medications. But Alberto very clearly pointed out that he felt the glucocorticosteroid could have a positive effect, so why not take the highest dose. And he didn’t really talk about side effects or anything. I looked that stuff up on my own later, because I got thrush, and it also gave me kind of bad breath, from the thrush ... That really took me by surprise, but he didn’t really seem worried about any of that stuff.

And what about in terms of the times of the year that he wanted you to take it? The doctor said to take it during pollen season, which overlaps with peak competition season, and then to either not take it the rest of the year or phase it down to the lowest dose.

And Alberto? His recommendation was to take it year round.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 58 - June 2015 And in terms of the method of administration, could you explain a little bit about Alberto’s suggestion? The doctor told me breathe it in my mouth, hold it for 10 seconds, and then breathe out normally. And Alberto said to breathe it in, hold it, and then breathe it out your nose slowly, because then you expose the glucocorti- costeroid to the nasal passages as well. And the theory is if it’s supposed to open up your passages, then it will open up your nasal passages too, and make sure that every single passage the air could come down is maximally opened.

Whose recommendations did you follow? At first I followed Alberto’s, and I was on [the highest dose] ... And then, this is going to sound so dumb, but I got this educational pamphlet in the mail from USADA [the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency], and it was talking about clean sport ... and you have to take this test that shows you have an understanding of the rules and the purpose of USADA and clean sport and all this stuff.

There was just something about it that made me feel very clearly that that approach to my inhaler was wrong, that the spirit of the sport did not support that. Turning illness into an advantage was not right. That you take a medication to fix the problem, not to fix the problem and then go above and beyond. I don’t even know if the medication really does that ... The inkling I’d had in my stomach in that first conversation with Alberto just felt stronger. I wouldn’t feel comfortable telling people, publicly sharing that I’m taking the highest dose of this, so maybe that’s not right.

Fleshman said she began to feel bad about the situation.

There were other things that happened later that kind of reinforced that that asthma experience had started to take me down a path that I didn’t want to go. That’s the main thing that motivates me to tell this story at all ... the way my interactions with Alberto made me feel ... something changed in me where I started to feel like the TUE [therapeutic use exemption] system was something to work around, that it was ok to look for loopholes and this is just kind of the American way. Maybe we’re not born in Africa and we don’t get raised at 8,000 feet elevation, and have long stick legs and extremely light frames to fly around the track, but we’re in the most medically advanced country ... So there was this part of me thinking maybe this is just the way, maybe there is a way through medicine and TUEs ... And it felt dangerous.

Fleshman said she later called Salazar for help with another training aid.

I called up Alberto when I heard people were turning their apartments into altitude apartments ... and he came down and set it up to have it installed in my apartment, and I was sleeping in an altitude apartment.

I was unable to handle the training load that I’d been able to handle without any problem for the past few years. I wasn’t resting at night; I was restless ... because of the altitude ... And I’d heard some of his athletes had seen this doctor and they had suppressed thyroids, and I knew these athletes slept in altitude tents too. And I was like, oh man, well maybe that’s the problem, maybe my thyroid is messed up and maybe — instead of looking at it like the altitude tent messed up my thyroid — maybe it’s something aboutmy thyroid is insufficient to handle this altitude tent. You can see there’s a different in that mentality, right? I felt like somehow I deserve to have some superhuman thyroid that can handle anything.

So I talked to my coach, Vin Lananna: I think my thyroid is suppressed. He said that could very well be it, you’re not responding to the training anymore, you’re tired all the time.

And I was like people go to this doctor, Alberto knows about him and I’m thinking about reaching out. And this was the most embarrassing moment, but the really important turnaround for me: my coach looked at me and he goes: “Ya know, you could do that, and if you want to do that, it’s your career, and I don’t think there’s necessar- ily anything illegal about it, but the reason why your thyroid is as messed up as it is because you’re not resting enough, you’re sleeping in an altitude tent, and you’re training too hard. And you have to back off, you have to change those things, you have to take responsibility.” And that made me so embarrassed that I was thinking the TAFWA Newsletter - Page 59 - June 2015 other way. I had almost been unconsciously scheming like, oh, cool, if my thyroid’s suppressed I’ll be able to get on thyroid medication, great, and that will have other advantages. It was like this idea of turning illness into advantage again, even if you are the one who causes your own illness.

Now, I definitely do think that’s an ethical violation ... So I just hope more people talk about their experiences, because if we can talk about them, we can decide how we feel about them ... [Aside from drugs] there are also methods that are banned, and I would like to see those methods expanded to abuses of the TUE system, and to looking at illness as advantage. I think that would be a huge win for clean sport.

The discussion seems to be happening very openly in track right now, more than I’ve ever seen in any sport.

It makes me really proud to be a track and field athlete when I see athletes coming forward like that. And I really do believe the majority of track and field athletes are playing clean ... And so I guess, technically, maybe Alberto’s stuff is clean with the exception of the testosterone, if that ends up being true. The things I really care about are more of these ethical questions of how TUEs are used. The reason why I think athletes are coming forward in this unprecedented way is because of how it makes you feel. When you decide to go that route, to take this aggressive medical approach, you feel gross about it ... I think a lot of these people will look back 10 years from now like, those things are not ok.

When you have a coach as powerful as Alberto Salazar, he’s now attracting the country’s best youth ... we’re talk- ing teenagers. And he’s responsible for instilling in them what it means to be a professional athlete ... I am ex- tremely uncomfortable thinking of him coaching a Mary Cain. I get uncomfortable around anyone in an Oregon Project uniform even if they’re not doing anything wrong ... And I could’ve been coached by Alberto Salazar, the door was open. In the end I didn’t go there because I knew I would have to police myself.

Fleshman said watching other athletes come forward inspired her.

I just can’t not say something when people like Kara Goucher come out and puts her face to her words, and Steve Magness, and other people that have things to lose ... and [former Oregon Project runner Josh] Rohatin- sky is the one that put me over the edge because I really respect that guy ... I don’t think our sport is a lost cause, and I want to be part of the movement making it better.

Rohatinsky didn’t have any particularly bad experiences, but felt there was a wall between what goes on with Galen Rupp and other people, and said he believed the “full extent” of all the allegations we reported, including faking symptoms to acquire a TUE, and Salazar testing testosterone on his son. What do you think?

I would say the same. The [Steve Magness account of] the book and the pills seems a little crazy to me ... but I don’t see any reason to doubt Steve Magness at all. The other stuff, absolutely ... I think [Salazar] looks at the TUE system as the obstacle in the way, and it’s not anything to be taken super seriously. It’s the same thing with the handing out Celebrex or those other stories, those don’t surprise me at all.

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 60 - June 2015 http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-07-03/ sports/9407020194_1_prozac-side-effects- endocrine-system 1994 SHARON ROBB On the Olympics Drug Claim A Concern

July 3, 1994|SHARON ROBB

Road racing and Olympic officials think Alberto Salazar's latest revelation may open a Pandora's box in endur- ance sports.

The former world-class runner gave much of the credit for his first win in 12 years (at the Comrades Ultra- Marathon in South Africa) to the drug Prozac. The prescription drug is used primarily to treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Its side effects are insomia, nausea, anxiety and weight loss.

Salazar, 35, started taking Prozac last August after consulting with Paul Raether, a sports medicine physician in Portland, Ore., and Jan Smulovitz, an endocrinologist in Eugene, Ore.

It wasn't that he was sad or depressed, Salazar told reporters. It was that the years of intense training, heat prostration and dehydration played havoc with his body's endocrine system and left him susceptible to fatigue, lethargy and illness - a chronic problem with today's elite runners, cyclists and triathletes.

Though no medical research exists, the theory is that overtraining can cause hormonal changes in the brain similar to certain forms of depression, causing a chemical imbalance. It is documented, however, that steroid abuse can also alter an athlete's endocrine system.

Prozac is not considered performance-enhancing and is not on the banned list for any Olympic sport except shooting.

Salazar's revelation has met with resistance and skepticism from the medical and running community.

"This is sending out the same signals as taking anabolic steroids," said Boca Raton's Robert Willix, a noted sports medicine doctor and cardiac surgeon. "We are taking a drug that is going to alter ourperformance that isn't natural... that will change the chemistry of our brain. It's no different than any other performance-enhancing drug that effects the neuro-endrocrine system.

"This should not be allowed; it should be on the banned list. It's not a message you want competitiveathletes to hear, even if Alberto likes the way he feels when he's competing. The long-term effects of Prozac are unknown. There may be serious complications. My concern is medications always have side effects over the long haul. The message is loud and clear. He shouldn't be touting Prozac for athletic performance."

Fort Lauderdale's Keith Brantly, the top U.S. 1996 Olympic marathon hopeful, is taking a wait-and-see attitude.

"Let's put it in perspective," Brantly said. "Let's give it more than one race, especially since there were not a lot of top runners in this marathon. Is he talking about running the same level - a 27:22 for a 10K or 2:08 for a mara- thon - he once did? The bottom line is Alberto's endocrine system is shot. How it got that way only Alberto can say."

TAFWA Newsletter - Page 61 - June 2015 Brantly said the Prozac revelation is similar to the asthma medication that was popular among runners in the 1980s.

"When asthma medications were the rage several years ago, you saw a lot of athletes coming out with bronchial dialators, the legal ones they managed somehow to get with a prescription," Brantly said. "The crazy thing about it was they realized they didn't work unless you had asthma.

"I would be real cautious with this new drug of choice to improve performance . It's kind of irresponsible to as- sume one drug or anything can make that big a difference.

"The bottom line is that the Kenyans and Ethiopians never tested positive for drugs and they are dominating the sport. I look at it as natural, hard work is probably the best way. Now maybe the thought of running against these guys makes you want to take Prozac just to get over the depression of losing to them all the time, but Alberto should have never gone public with this."

Davie's Angel Nunez, a sports agent and race director for some of the top Mexican elite and Masters runners, including Salvador Garcia and Rolando Vera, is skeptical and concerned. Because of Salazar's stature in the run- ning community, runners will be tempted to try Prozac, Nunez said.

"It's the wrong way to go about it," Nunez said. "By Salazar stating something like this, it's going to send a wrong message to athletes that they can come up with excuses to use drugs, that it will help your athletic performance, which is wrong."

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2015

June 19-21 New Balance Outdoor Nationals (HS), Greensboro NC June 25-28 USATF Championships, Eugene June 28 TAFWA Breakfast Social, Eugene, Ore. June 30-July 1 World Youth Trials, Lisle, Ill. July 4 Meeting Areva, Paris Saint-Denis July 9 Athletissima, Lausanne July 15-19 World Youth Championships, Cali, Colombia July 17 Herculis Zepter, Monaco (Stade Louis II) July 20-26 Pan Am Games, Toronto July 23-26 U.S. Masters Championships, Jacksonville, Fl. July 24-25 Stainsbury’s Anniversary Games, London (Olympic Stadium) July 30 DN Galan , Stockholm July 31-Aug. 2 PanAm Juniors, Edmonton Aug. 4-16 World Masters Championships, Lyon, France Aug. 22-30 World Championships, Beijing Sept. 3 Weltklasse, Zurich (Letzigrund Stadium) Sept. 11 AG Insurance Memoria; Vvam Damme, Bruxelles Nov. 21 NCAA XC Championships, Louisville, Ky.

2016

March 18-20 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Eugene, Ore.

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