Mary Cain Makes Serious Allegations Against Alberto Salazar And Nike
LRC Nike, Alberto Salazar and Top Pros Respond To Mary Cain’s Allegations Nike has issued a statement saying they will start an immediate investigation of the “troubling allegations” while Cain has confirmed she did try to rejoin the team in April of this year. Additionally, three former NOP members have said Salazar was very focused on the weight of his female athletes, but Salazar has issued a forceful denial of Cain’s allegations, writing to Ken Goe, “To be clear, I never encouraged her, or worse yet, shamed her, to maintain an unhealthy weight.”
*Salazar Denies Cain’s Allegations Salazar tells Ken Goe that both of Cain’s parents, including her father who is an MD, were deeply involved in her training and aware of all supplement she was on. He says when Cain struggled “to find and maintain her ideal performance and training weight” he referred her to a female doctor. He also shared a text message from April where Cain wrote, “Thanks again so much for a great trip — I’m excited to be working together again and I really want this.”
LRC Full Transcript of NY Times Video: Mary Cain Says She Was “Emotionally And Physically Abused By A System Designed By Alberto [Salazar] And Endorsed By Nike” In an explosive New York Times video essay, Cain claims she was pressured by Salazar to lose weight (to get down to 114 pounds) and was weighed in front of teammates and “publicly shamed” if she didn’t hit weight. She also says Salazar wanted her to take birth control pills and diuretics to shed pounds – the latter of which is against track and field’s rules according to Cain. Cain also says she became suicidal and started to cut herself and says when she told Alberto Salazar and Darren Treasure that she was cutting herself that “they pretty much told me that they just wanted to go to bed.”
*MB: Explosive New York Times article: Mary Cain breaks silence about NOP
- Former NOP Runner Jackie Areson Speaks Out About Alberto Salazar On Instagram She says Salazar was “obsessed” with weight and called her fat and said she had a huge butt, even when she was setting PRs. She also says Salazar bashed Jenny Simpson for her weight in 2012 and says NOP’s Darren Treasure was “just as bad” as Salazar.
- Writer Elizabeth Weil Regrets The Positive Piece She Wrote On Mary Cain And NOP For The NY Times In 2015 “In hindsight I got it so wrong.”
- Shalane Flangan reacts “I’m so sorry @runmarycain that I never reached out to you when I saw you struggling. I made excuses to myself as to why I should mind my own business. We let you down. I will never turn my head again.”
- Mary Cain and her mother go on Good Morning America
- Amy Yoder Begley On Twitter: “After placing 6th in the 10,000m at the 2011 USATF championships, I was kicked out of the Oregon Project. I was told I was too fat and ‘had the biggest but on the startling line.’”
- Mary Cain Story Picked Up By People Magazine On twitter, Jonathan Marcus was the meet director for the 2015 Oxy meet and confirmed Cain’s story about Salazar yelling at her in public for “gaining weight.”
The Weekly LRC Podcast
LRC Podcast 2019 New York City Marathon Recap + Look at 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials, New Shoes, World Marathon Majors Expansion? New York City is in the books and the Olympic Trials on the horizon.
MB: Conference Championships weekend
- Pac-12: Colorado men win it (again) as #2 Stanford women DESTROY #3 Washington 27 to 55 The Colorado men came in tied for #3 in the country with Stanford but they won easily as Stanford was only third. Colorado was led by individual champ Joe Klecker as Thomas Ratcliffe was only 6th. The #2 Stanford women CRUSHED it beating #3 Washington, 27 to 55 as Fiona O’Keeffe got the individual win.
- ACC: Syracuse men are back baby!! 6th-highest ranked team in ACCs win team title, NC State women win as well The Orange were only ranked 28th coming in but they got the win over #20 Notre Dame, #21 Florida St, #23 NC State, #24 UVA and #26 Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech’s Peter Seufer repeated for the men’s individual title as NC State’s Elly Henes – the coach’s daughter – won the individual title.
- Big 12: Iowa State men (34) and Oklahoma State women (52) win The women’s team race was super tight as just 4 points separated 1st and 3rd.
- SEC: #1 Arkansas women (21) and #11 Ole Miss men (35) roll at SECs Vincent Kiprop of Alabama and Katie Izzo of Arkansas were your individual champs
- Big East: Villanova men (36), Butler women (52) win titles
- Ivy League: Penn men upset Princeton, Columbia women win Columbia’s Kenny Vasbinder (24:32) and Yale’s Kayley DeLay (20:45) got the individual wins.
- Big Sky: NAU Men And Women Sweep Big Sky Conference Titles NAU freshman Drew Bosley won the men’s race. Montana State’s Camila Noe took the women’s.
*MB: J Eastwood finishes 8th at Big Sky XC Championships - Mountain West: Weini Kelati And New Mexico Women Win Mountain West Championships New Mexico won easily while Kelati finished 49 seconds ahead of teammate Ednah Kurgat. Utah State and Dallin Farnsworth won the men’s competition.
- Patriot: Army men get revenge on Navy, win by 3; BU women win
- West Coast: BYU Men And Women Sweep West Coast Conference Champs Conner Mantz and Whittni Orton won the individual titles.
- MAC: Eastern Michigan Men Get Record 23rd MAC Win
- *5th Straight MAC Title For Eastern Michigan Women
- USTFCCCA Conference Champs Weekend Recap
NYC Previews
LRC 2019 New York City Marathon Preview Podcast + Camille Herron and Rojo Hobby Jogging Love We break down the 2019 NYC Marathon fields.
LRC Women’s Preview: Will the Course Record Finally Go Down? Who Will Be the Top American: Sara Hall, Des Linden, or Kellyn Taylor? Can Mary Keitany get the only thing she doesn’t have in New York – the course record? How will the Americans, Sara Hall, Des Linden, and Kellyn Taylor do?
LRC Men’s Preview: After an Epic Year of Marathoning, What Does NYC Have in Store? NYC’s elite men’s field isn’t deep at all, but with Geoffrey Kamworor coming in off a half marathon WR, Lelisa Desisa chasing an unprecedented Worlds/NYC double, and Jared Ward entering in terrific shape, the men’s race should still be a good one.
*MB: Who wins the men’s race at the 2019 NYC Marathon? Kamworor, Desisa, Kitata, or Tola? Does the course record go as well?