Top athletics coach, Alberto Salazar, faces doping claims

One of the world’s best known athletics coaches is at the centre of doping allegations, according to a BBC investigation.
Alberto Salazar has been accused of violating anti-doping rules, including claims he was involved in doping US record holder Galen Rupp, in 2002.
Rupp and GB Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah are part of Salazar’s US stable, the Nike Oregon Project. There is no suggestion Farah has broken any rules.
Salazar and Rupp deny any wrongdoing.
Salazar is a US athletics legend, who won the New York marathon three years in a row and ran himself unconscious in winning the Boston marathon in 1982.
He is now one of the world’s most successful coaches. The head coach at the prestigious Nike running camp based in Portland, Oregon, Salazar has worked with Farah since 2011 and has coached his training partner Rupp for 14 years.
His coaching philosophy involves intensive training and the use of the latest scientific techniques.
Rupp is the US 10,000m record holder and was 10,000m silver medallist at the London Olympics, behind Farah.
None of the Nike Oregon Project (NOP) athletes has ever failed a drug test. But the BBC has heard claims about some of Salazar’s methods including the use of banned steroids and unethical practices.
The BBC is aware of at least seven athletes or staff associated with the NOP who say they have gone to the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) with their concerns, though Usada does not confirm or deny investigations.
The allegations, which come from a number of former athletes and staff, will feature in a BBC documentary on Wednesday.
The investigation into the Oregon Project – which is a BBC collaboration with US journalism organisation ProPublica – heard claims that American distance runner Rupp had been given the banned anabolic steroid testosterone in 2002, when he was 16 years old.