Salazar has stent implanted in artery

Galen Rupp gave his coach and mentor, Alberto Salazar, two choices last week when Salazar began to feel dizzy and experienced an uncomfortable sensation in his neck:

He would either call an ambulance or run for his car to drive Salazar to Eugene's Sacred Heart Hospital.

Rupp drove Salazar to the hospital on Oct. 10 and doctors immediately elected to install a stent in Salazar's left anterior descending artery, which was discovered to be 90 percent blocked.