• Salazar controversy ‘a distraction’ for athletes, says Nike CEO
• Company will help athletes find new training arrangements

Nike has decided to close its Nike Oregon Project training group following the recent four-year ban of its founder and coach Alberto Salazar by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada).

The Nike Oregon Project was a camp designed primarily to develop US endurance athletes and Salazar, a celebrated distance runner who had won three consecutive New York City marathons from 1980, had been its head coach.