Coach Alberto Salazar won’t be missed

In June 2015, a few days after an investigation into Alberto Salazar finally saw the light of day, I sat with a fellow athletics journalist in a hotel lobby in Birmingham. He had known Salazar for a few decades, ever since the famed American coach had been a world-class athlete, and he was not at all surprised to hear of the revelations detailed in the bombshell story.

For several years, it was not so much smoke but thick clouds of cynicism that hung over Salazar’s work as head coach at the Nike Oregon Project.