Alberto Salazar

Salazar athletes to be investigated

Salazar was banned from coaching during the World Athletics Championships in Doha, after he – along with Dr Jeffrey Brown – were found guilty of possessing and trafficking banned substances after a four-year investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency.

The verdict resulted in Salazar's Nike Oregon Project being shut down, though the 61-year-old stated he will appeal his four-year ban.

WADA keeps thyroid medication off banned-substances list

After reports that a number of athletes coached by former Boston and New York Marathon winner Alberto Salazar use the medication, the British anti-doping agency and others asked WADA to consider putting it on its banned-substance list.

But when the list came out last week, that medicine wasn't on it.