track and field News

Nike Inc. is ending its Oregon Project supporting elite track athletes after a top coach was banned for violating anti-doping rules in a scandal that has engulfed the sport’s biggest corporate backer. A company spokesman confirmed the decision, which came …

The latest bombshell doping violation from track and field has also ensnared the sport’s biggest corporate backer: Nike Inc. Legendary track coach Alberto Salazar, head of the famed Nike Oregon Project, was given a four-year ban from the sport this …