Des Linden rocks Twitter with “savage” post targeting Alberto Salazar

Des Linden set Twitter a blaze Friday with a tweet targeting Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project.

With two screenshots side-by-side, one of Salazar, head coach of the Beaverton, Ore.-based training group, and a Runner’s World article recapping an ongoing investigation into the possibility of him skirting anti-doping rules, and the other showing a pigeon with “200 ecstasy pills hidden in a little backpack.” Not coincidentally, Salazar is wearing a backpack in the screenshot.

But who wore it better? pic.twitter.com/qeFIXuxHo9

— des_linden (@des_linden) June 9, 2017

“But who wore it better?” Linden, a 2:22:38 marathoner from the United States who finished seventh over that distance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, tweeted out.

It’s been more than two years since a BBC/ProPublica report was released accusing Salazar of “breaking drug rules.” Salazar, as well as current athletes Galen Rupp and Mo Farah, have denied all accusations relating to breaching anti-doping regulations. The United States Anti-Doping Agency continues to investigate the Oregon Project.

Salazar recently wrote the Oregonian noting “The Oregon Project will never permit doping and all Oregon Project athletes are required to comply with the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) Code and IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body of international track and field) Rules.”

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Steve Magness, who was once a coach with the Oregon Project and in an open letter wrote that “I reported that Salazar used a hollowed out book to send medication through the mail,” is one of the more than 400 Twitter users to have “liked” the tweet so far. Among the replies are “savage,” a number of GIFs and “hot damn.”