Alberto SalazarPhil Noble | REUTERSNike says it is taking allegations about body-shaming on the Oregon Mission "severely" and that it's going to la
Alberto Salazar
Phil Noble | REUTERS
Nike says it is taking allegations about body-shaming on the Oregon Mission “severely” and that it’s going to launch an “speedy” investigation to listen to from runners on the now-shuttered workforce.
“These allegations are utterly inconsistent with our values,” a spokesperson informed CNBC in an emailed assertion.
In an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times, Mary Cain, as soon as a star athlete on Nike’s Oregon Mission, stated she was “emotionally and bodily abused by a system designed by Alberto [Salazar] and endorsed by Nike.” She stated that when she arrived at Nike as an adolescent to coach with the group, which was created to advertise long-distance operating, she was met with an all-male employees who informed her that so as “to get higher” she needed to be “thinner and thinner and thinner.”
“These are deeply troubling allegations which haven’t been raised by Mary or her mother and father earlier than,” a Nike spokesperson stated. “Mary was in search of to rejoin the Oregon Mission and Alberto’s workforce as lately as April of this yr and had not raised these considerations as a part of that course of.”
On Oct. 1, the U.S. Anti-Doping Company introduced it has banned Salazar, a high operating coach, for 4 years on three doping code violations, although Salazar has denied any wrongdoing.
It was additionally reported by The New York Occasions in early October that Nike CEO…