Nike says it's investigating claims of bodily and mental abuse at its now-defunct Nike Oregon Undertaking, in response to former teen phenom Mary Cain's harrowing account of her time below its former head, disgraced track coach Alberto Salazar. On February 2, 2013 at the Boston Indoor Games , Cain set the highschool record in the indoor 2 mile with a time of 9:38.68. Her time was almost 10 seconds superior to Kim Mortensen 's outdoor file for the marginally shorter 3200 meters.
Cain left the Nike Oregon Project in 2016, and three years later, in October 2019, it shut down after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency banned Salazar from the game for four years. As a sophomore in 2012, Cain additionally set the then U.S. highschool document at 1500 meters when she clocked four:11.01 finishing sixth on the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Cain, now 23, mentioned when she arrived in Eugene at 17 to coach for the distinguished track group, she was met with an all-male workers who instructed her in order to better her performances she wanted to turn out to be "thinner and thinner and thinner." No nutritionist was on staff.
Former Nike Oregon Mission athlete and 2014 world junior champion Mary Cain is speaking out in opposition to her ex-coach, Alberto Salazar, and Nike, over a cycle of abuse she claims to have endured within the pursuit of excellence in track and subject. The New York Occasions says Salazar denied a lot of Mary's claims in an e mail and mentioned he had supported her well being and welfare”.
An all-male Nike employees grew to become convinced that in order for me to get higher, I had to develop into thinner … and thinner and thinner,” Cain explained, alleging that Salazar set an arbitrary” 114-pound goal weight for her. As a high school star out of Bronxville, New York, she set high school record after highschool report - 1:fifty nine.51 for 800; 4:04:62 for 1,500 and four:24 for the mile.
PHILADELPHIA - Mary Cain has heard the story umpteen times. Within the seven-minute video and accompanying piece , Cain says she was pushed by Salazar and his assistant coaches to get thinner and even publicly referred to as her out for her weight after a monitor meet in 2015.
American skilled runner Mary Cain alleged that she was "emotionally and bodily abused" by Nike's Oregon Undertaking and coach Alberto Salazar. Who killed Ariel's mom moved from Bronxville, N.Y., to Portland after graduating high school last 12 months, completing a adorned prep career crammed with data and state and national titles.
Within the 2013 indoor season Mary went on a document breaking spree first breaking the forty one year old a US High School indoor mile record with a time of four:32.seventy eight. Her 1500m cut up time en route to the mile record was additionally a US Indoor and Outdoor Excessive College File.
Cain's New York Times op-ed prompted one other former Oregon Challenge runner to share her expertise. Nike disbanded the Oregon Project final month after Salazar was banned for four years for violating anti-doping guidelines by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. On Thursday, in a devastating New York Times video , she answered.