Nike says it is 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 under its former head, disgraced monitor coach Alberto Salazar. Can an incumbent president be challenged in a primary am so proud of Mary Cain for telling her powerful story of verbal, emotional, and bodily abuse on the Nike Oregon Undertaking,” Goucher wrote. In 2013, Mary Cain was the talk of the track and subject world. After being off the observe-and-subject radar for several years, Cain ran a 4-mile race on Mother's Day in Central Park.
In November 2013, Cain, 17 at the time, who was coached by marathon great Alberto Salazar, turned skilled, and in October 2016, she left the Nike Oregon Venture to stay on the east coast (additionally a full time student at Fordham College) and be coached by John Henwood.
Cain, who was a prep phenomenon in New York before coach Alberto Salazar got here alongside and called her "essentially the most talented athlete I've ever seen" (according to her), joined the Nike Oregon Mission while she was nonetheless a highschool student at Bronxville High.
Now 23, Cain tells The New York Instances in a video essay that beneath Salazar's direction she was informed to drop some weight and he created an "arbitrary variety of 114 pounds." Cain says she began having suicidal ideas and chopping herself. Nike will examine allegations of abuse by runner Mary Cain whereas she was a member of Alberto Salazar's training group.
He needed to give me contraception tablets and diuretics to drop extra pounds — the latter of which isn't allowed in track and discipline. At 17, Cain is the youngest of more than 40 ladies from across the globe scheduled to run this weekend within the 1,500 meters on the IAAF World Championships in observe and subject in Moscow.
A shocked athletics world has reacted with alarm on the accusations from Mary Cain that she suffered a number of bone fractures, three years of missed periods and suicidal thoughts after being pressured to lose weight when she was training with the Nike Oregon Undertaking.