In 2013 Mary Cain, a teenage running prodigy who was the youngest track and field athlete to make a World Championships team, joined Nike’s prestigious Oregon Project. The brand launched the project in 2001, recruiting top athletes to train and promote competitive long-distance running. But according to an op-ed from Cain published on Thursday, she was emotionally and physically abused within the program, forced to drop weight so dramatically that she stopped having a period.
In 2013 Mary Cain, a teenage running prodigy who was the youngest track and field athlete to make a World Championships team, joined Nike’s prestigious Oregon Project. The brand launched the project in 2001, recruiting top athletes to train and promote competitive long-distance running. But according to
from Cain published on Thursday, she was emotionally and physically abused within the program, forced to drop weight so dramatically that she stopped having a period.it was shutting down the Oregon Project after star head coach Alberto Salazar was banned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for doping violations. But Cain’s op-ed illuminates how the Oregon Project’s problems went far beyond the doping scandal.
Since Cain’s op-ed Nike has announced it will immediately investigate her claims by speaking with former Oregon Project athletes, the Guardian
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