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 Last week American Salazar issued a lengthy response to a series of
claims made by the BBC television program Panorama, in association
with the U.S. website ProPublica, earlier this month.
The coach, who guides Britain's double Olympic champion Farah and
London Games 10,000 meters silver medalist Galen Rupp of the U.S.,
has denied any wrongdoing.
"WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) has confirmed USADA and UKAD are
investigating the relevant allegations in the recent Panorama
program," UKAD chief executive Nicole Sapstead said on her
organization's website (www.ukad.org.uk) on Monday.
"As with all of our on-going investigations UKAD will not disclose
any details, to protect the privacy of everyone involved, and so we
do not undermine our own operations of deterring and detecting
doping in sport.
"We will follow our usual procedure, if a prosecution is brought we
will publish the outcome on our website once due process (including
any appeals) has been completed," UKAD explained.
"However, if at the end of the investigation there is no resulting
prosecution, UKAD will not publish the details. This is because we
have a duty to protect the rights of those involved."
The announcement by UKAD was welcomed by UK Athletics.
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"UK Athletics said at the outset that all those making allegations
should take their evidence to the relevant anti-doping authorities
so we obviously welcome this decision," it said in a statement.
"We call on UKAD and other investigating bodies to make public the
full findings of their investigations in order to enable full and
public transparency."
(Writing by Tony Jimenez, editing by Clare Lovell)
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