Wtf. They should sue.
If Oiselle wants people to respect small contracts they need to enforce them. Make her pay the damages.
This is disgraceful both to her and the sport. It is one thing to do this to a large company like Nike or Under Armour, but she did this to a small niche women's running apparel company founded by a former athlete in the sport. Things like this are detrimental to the sport, and she might just get away with it.
She has made herself the ''most hated athlete in track and field'', and that is saying something considering the sport is saturated with doping and poor sportsmanship. At least we have someone to root against...
man thats low.
hope she gets hit by the karma bus and does a hamstring in the warm-up.
Who?
Man, that’s a bush league move. She should look at the list of female field athletes who are competing unattached . It’s huge. Her performance levels off the big company will shove her out the door in a second. She should read T. Bartolletta ‘s blog about getting a contract as a female long jumper.
Nike likes to stick it to Oiselle whenever they can, they probably offered her a much more lucrative contract than they would have if she were unattached.
I love her reply. Short and Sweet.
So they gave her money that she didn’t ask for nor were they contractually obligated to provide.
They didn’t take any risk by offering her an apparel deal.
Let them sue the damage will be minimal.
I think the thing that bothers me the most is the petty nature of putting everything in a blog post
Person Who Runs wrote:
It is one thing to do this to a large company like Nike or Under Armour, but she did this to a small niche women's running apparel company founded by a former athlete in the sport.
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Who do you think founded Nike?
Reading that blog entry makes me think Oiselle hates men.
This was her bio: “English Major by education, designer by trade; speaker of broken French but fluent in humility and humor.”
Awful.
Nothing says humble like telling people how humble you are.
Nike should crush them.
Person Who Runs wrote:
This is disgraceful both to her and the sport. It is one thing to do this to a large company like Nike or Under Armour, but she did this to a small niche women's running apparel company founded by a former athlete in the sport. Things like this are detrimental to the sport, and she might just get away with it.
She has made herself the ''most hated athlete in track and field'', and that is saying something considering the sport is saturated with doping and poor sportsmanship. At least we have someone to root against...
Oiselle is by far one of the most irritating companies around, and management was immature to the point that the CEO was publicly arguing with a journalist (John Gugala) a few years back about something utterly inconsequential.
Contracts are broken all the time. If you look at all other sports (Basketball, Football, Soccer, etc.), sponsors and teams are forced to swap players left and right. It is ridiculous for a company to publicly condemn and whine about it.
Screw Oiselle. This is the same company and owner who actively supported banditing races such as with the sexist Kelly Roberts who has no athletic ability what so ever and yet gets paid by Oiselle to blame everything on men.
I didn't know that they put together some bonus money to give to her after she set the American record, and that they were going to let her out of her contract after USAs.
You mean to tell me that she couldn't wait to after then? And that they were willing to split the difference between what she was getting from them and what Nike offered?
I must concur that was a bad business action, and totally unscrupulous.
What is the controversy between Oiselle and Tori Franklin? Multiple sponsors?
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