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Konstanze Klosterhalfen followed the instructions of her trainer and did not look at the clock. "I should only overtake as many as possible in the end," said the 22-year-old German athlete after setting her own German 3000 meter record at the Diamond League meeting in Stanford, California, which she will set up in 2017 in Birmingham had improved by nearly ten seconds to 8: 20.07 minutes.
Klosterhalfen was second behind the Ethiopian-born Dutchwoman Aifan Hassan. The winner ran the fourth fastest time over 3000 meters, which was ever reached, Klosterhalfen the sixth fastest. "I did not learn the exact time from my coach until half an hour after the race." That is, Pete Julian, is American, was once a long-distance runner and has been working for the Nike Oregon Project for eleven years.
USADA has been investigating for four years
Since last fall Klosterhalfen has been training in Portland, Washington, and has been an official member of the project since spring, the only German among eleven athletes. Has threaded the change to the United States Klosterhalfens promoter Oliver Mintzlaff, CEO of the football Bundesliga RB Leipzig.
Project Manager Alberto Salazar with Kara Goucher (2006)
The "Nike Oregon Project" led by former marathon runner Alberto Salazar, founded in 2001 to end Africa's hegemony over the long haul, is controversial. Since 2015, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has been investigating whether Portland violates anti-doping rules. Kara Goucher, a former athlete of the project, accused Salazar of giving her a thyroid remedy after having given birth to her child. According to a 2017 USDA interim report, project athletes will also have been given L-carnitine infusion at short intervals, a means by which energy metabolism can be increased.
Salazar, it said in the report, had "almost certainly" violated the anti-doping protocol. The head of the project denied this, but the USADA indictment did not come to fruition. So far the most successful protégé was the British superstar Mo Farah, Salazar led to four Olympic victories before Farah in the fall of 2017 left the project – "not because of doping allegations," as Farah underlined.
After four Olympic victories, British superstar Mo Farah left the "Nike Oregon Project"
"I think that in this center everything that has been somehow, at some point in a positive context with improved performance, is applied in a highly professional manner," says Professor Fritz Sörgel, director of the Institute for Biomedicine and Pharmaceutical Research in Nuremberg, the ‘. "Understand this is that, for example, infusions are handled correctly according to the WADA rules: not more than 100 milliliters per twelve hours., It's just going to the limits."
"Cross-doping"
Some of the runners in the Nike Oregon Project live in homes where filters reduce oxygen levels in the air. This method simulates high altitude hypoxia conditions that cause the body to produce more red blood cells. "Optimization is common in professional sports," says doping expert Sörgel. "Anyone who optimizes their training methods and obviously their supply of substances of various kinds has an advantage – the question of how to say that is more of a moral issue." Sörgel calls this "border doping", and refers to a case in Cyprus where three professional footballers went to the police in November 2018 because they got infusions and intravenous injections from their club and then suffered from massive heart problems.
Fritz Sörgel: "The impossible made possible"
National coach Sebastian Weiß, formerly home coach Klosterhalfens at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, has come in his own words the leap in performance of his former protégé. "I am very happy that Koko has had such a great time and that she is still developing great," said White after Stanford's best time. "She has already run records in the past, we know her talent, so that does not come as a surprise to me."
If – as now by Klosterhalfen – a record not only broken, but actually pulverized, "I must assume that the impossible was made possible," says doping expert Sörgel. He does not necessarily mean that the German runner has resorted to unauthorized means. "You have to suspect innocence," says Sörgel. "But putting things together, you have to ask," How do you make such performance gains? "Taking advantage of all the possibilities, pushing them to the limit, is a development in sport that can not be outlawed by WADA rules, but questions after the safety of athletes brings with it. "
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