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In einem zweiten Artikel von David Epstein bestätigen weitere ehemalige Athleten den fragwürdigen Umgang mit verschreibungspflichtigen Medikamenten im Oregon-Projekt.

Among the prescriptions the athletes said Salazar often pushed them to obtain were various asthma medications, from albuterol inhalers to corticosteroids. [...] Two former Oregon Project athletes described being told by Salazar to do a hard workout, and then run up the stairs to a doctor’s office to take an asthma test. “You sprint around the track, sprint through downtown Portland, and sprint up the stairs and go do the test,” the runner said. The athlete added that Salazar often had an inhaler to give out to runners who still didn’t qualify. “If you hadn’t failed the asthma test yet,” the runner said, “he’d say, ‘Here’s an inhaler, use it until we get you tested

Among the new allegations, one runner recalled being tested four times in a matter of months for thyroid function despite a lack of any symptoms until getting a result that, while still well within the normal range, was deemed sub-optimal. The runner recounted finally getting a prescription for the thyroid hormone drug Cytomel.