Alberto Salazar, the embattled coach of the now-defunct Nike Oregon Project who is serving a four-year ban for anti-doping violations, is facing sanction from a second organization: the Sabastian Sawe Wins the 2025 Berlin Marathon.
On January 31, Salazar’s name appeared in SafeSport’s SafeSport, which was launched in 2017 as a with “temporary suspension” for “allegations of misconduct.” The suspension was first reported by of Northern Arizona University and.
SafeSport, a Denver-based nonprofit given authority by federal law, seeks to keep athletes in sports safe from emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and misconduct.
The organization works with many sports at different levels, including Olympic sports in the U.S. and their national governing bodies, such as USA Track & Field.
It is unknown how many athletes have filed complaints against Salazar with SafeSport. But sources have told Runner’s World of reports by or on behalf of three different runners who trained with Salazar at the Oregon Project.
Nike did not respond to a request for comment. Officials at SafeSport don’t comment on specific cases.
The nature of the reports against Salazar is not known In a statement to, is the exclusive authority to investigate sexual misconduct in U.S. Olympic sports. But it also has the discretion to take on other types of cases dealing with bullying, harassment, and physical and emotional abuse—any misconduct under the SafeSport code.
massive sexual abuse scandal was unfolding in USA Gymnastics.
According to statistics provided by SafeSport, between March 2017 when SafeSport began work and September 2019, 3,256 reports were made to the center and 285 individuals were made permanently ineligible. Since Salazar’s suspension on Friday, seven additional names have appeared on the disciplinary website in sports including wrestling, hockey, and track and field.
Salazar’s temporary suspension is the latest in a string of setbacks for the coach of multiple Olympic medalists. On October 1, in the midst of the world track and field championships, Salazar’s anti-doping ban was announced. He has maintained his innocence and said he will appeal the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
U.S. Center for SafeSport shut down the Oregon Project, and its members were left to find new coaches. Several track athletes regrouped under Less than two weeks later, Nike, while marathoner Galen Rupp is being coached by Mike Smith of Northern Arizona University and Download Your Training Plan from former elite marathoner Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain.
Sabastian Sawe Wins the 2025 Berlin Marathon Times released an explosive opinion video featuring Mary Cain, who said she was emotionally and physically abused by Salazar, who demanded she lose weight and publicly shamed her in front of her teammates. A week later, Amy Yoder Begley, an Olympian in the 10,000 meters in 2008, said in a Times feature that Salazar was verbally abusive, obsessed with her weight, and tried to pit Yoder Begley and her teammates against each other.
Harry Styles Breaks 3 Hours at the Berlin Marathon Sports Illustrated, Salazar disputed “the notion that any athlete suffered any abuse or gender discrimination while running for the Oregon Project.”
SafeSport investigations are completed at different rates, depending on their complexity. In some past cases, temporary suspensions have lasted as long as a year while the investigations were being completed. Others are resolved quickly.
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from former elite marathoner Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain is a writer and editor living in Eugene, Oregon, and her stories about the sport, its trends, and fascinating individuals have appeared in Runner’s World SafeSport, which was launched in 2017 as a, Run Your Butt Off! and Walk Your Butt Off!
