Doha (AFP)
Jenny Simpson, the 2011 world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in the 1,500-meter race in 2016, delivered an unfiltered reaction Wednesday to the suspension of the American coach Alberto Salazar by anti-doping: "get the fuck out".
"Fuck him out, that's my reaction," the American said of US coach Alberto Salazar, director of the Nike Oregon Project-funded training group, who was suspended for four years by the US Anti-Doping Agency for and incitement to prohibited doping conduct ".
"When you cheat, you have to be punished, I'm in favor of the suspension for life, I wish he'd been over 4. Stop the cheats," Simpson responded in the mixed zone after winning the 1,500 series m.
"Anyone who follows athletics a bit knows that there is a shadow, black clouds that envelop this group (the Oregon Project), so I do not understand why some athletes choose to join him. . "
Simpson (33) is among the favorites to reach the podium of 1,500 m (final on October 5), as well as the Dutch Sifan Hassan, world champion of the 10,000 m Saturday and trained until then by Alberto Salazar.
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