I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike

Mary Cain’s male coaches were convinced she had to get “thinner, and thinner, and thinner.” Then her body started breaking down.

At 17, Mary Cain was already a record-breaking phenom: the fastest girl in a generation, and the youngest American runner to turn professional. In 2013, she was signed by the best track team in the world, Nike’s Oregon Project, run by its star coach Alberto Salazar.

Then everything collapsed. Her fall was just as spectacular as her rise, and she shares that story for the first time in the Video Op-Ed above.
newtboysays...

Idiocy. If she was smashing records, her weight clearly wasn't an issue.
Assuming her story is factual, after her first bone break, continuing the ignorant regimen amounts to intentional abuse.
Alberto should be banned from the sport for life.
Nike should also be banned from running a sports team for a number of years. They clearly don't know what they're doing, and put their athletes health at risk. I hope she gets every dollar she would have earned by being the top American female runner, including top dollar endorsement deals, from Nike. They would do themselves a big favor by settling, they won't do well in court against her story.

Jesusismypilotsays...

Strange she thinks the answer is to add women into leadership. Clearly, if this story is true, both men and women are being put at risk and that's what needs to be addressed.

Sports are great but top level sports is more than a little sick.

newtboysays...

Try again, and this time listen to the part about her period stopping. If you think that issue applies to men, you need help.

Jesusismypilotsaid:

Strange she thinks the answer is to add women into leadership. Clearly, if this story is true, both men and women are being put at risk and that's what needs to be addressed.

Sports are great but top level sports is more than a little sick.

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