Word: salazarism
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...runners from all over the world and turns them into world class racers. They come for the moderate climate, and for the beautiful scenery. And they come because Eugene is where the other runners are. The late Steve Prefontaine, who ran 10,000 meters at Munich, was one. Alberto Salazar, who won Monday's Boston Marathon is another...
...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
Rodgers had one of his questions answered yesterday when New York Marathon champion Alberto Salazar decided to enter Boston...
...good day, he'll be head and shoulders above the crowd," Rodgers said of Salazar, who set a world marathon record last October in New York. "I think he could win really easily...and then again he might get nailed...
Last November, Jorge Salazar, a respected business leader, was gunned down by government security forces for allegedly supplying arms to counterrevolutionaries. Salazar's death united COSEP against the Sandinistas. Last February COSEP's Dreyfus criticized the Sandinistas for allowing manufacturing to drop 35% below government projections. Said he: "All this is the consequence of financial indiscipline in a government which is in the process of reconstructing the country...