Nick, Lauren and Addy are all grads of North Huntington High and Huntington College, where all were running stars.
All 3 are born again evangelical Christians, which fit with the culture of HU.
Nick and Lauren were like a second family for Addy, supporting her running and academic growth in high school.
Nick was quite a jerk.
To be Christian and family is, however, to practice forgiveness. There can actually be real human strength in forgiveness.
Whatever happens between Lauren, Nick and Addy is their private business. If they can forgive and make it work, that's their choice.
It appears the legal side of this will continue to slowly disappear. Addy and Lauren are not charged with anything. USATF and adidas have no problem with Addy and Lauren, so she will compete for a spot on US Olympic team.
Follow up questions/comments
1. yes, I know.
2. Okay and?
3. Why were they second family? And by second family, what exactly do you mean? Did she live with them? Or is "second family" just a figure of speech?
4. Nick is a confessed sexual abuser and predator. A confessed one. He confessed to doing it.
5. Are we talking about forgiveness or compliance? Are we talking about forgiveness or submission? Are we talking about forgiveness or silence? As Rachel Denhollander (a devout christian) said, it is a christian value to pursue justice.
6. It is not private when N*ck committed a crime. There is a police report. this is not private.
7. Adidas should have done more research and seen a red flag with these people. That's why I asked if Lauren is still married to *him*. They should have said, we can't offer you a contract unless you agree to new coaching. Being coached by someone who is married to a confessed predator, especially one Addy was so close with is horrible. Any decent responsible person would not want to engage or enable that, especially when coming from the outside.
"Any decent responsible person would not want to engage that"
Actually no, a prerequisite to being a decent and responsible person is to "engage that". If you do not "engage with that", it is not possible to be a decent and responsible person.
Wow! Going from running against a bunch of no name runners one week to running against top pros like Gidaf Tsegay, Birke Haylom, and Gabriela Debues- Stafford the next week.
Anybody else remember the few cryptic posts on this board alleging GDS was involved in the sabotage of Houlihan, back then?
Houlihan is a cheater that got caught, no one sabotaged her.
All they will do is prohibit unregistered posters. That does nothing. I really hope the website and the posters get sued.
I hope so too, and soon. It's way overdue.
Ah yes. After all of Nick’s current lawyer fees I’m sure they’ll have plenty of cash left over to go after anonymous posters on a random internet running forum.
You realize saying “I think the Johnsons are bad people” isn’t actually breaking any laws right?
That post is fine. But claiming that Wiley is doping is different.
Few have claimed outright that she's doping. It's more the fact that she closely associates herself with shady coaches, which increases the chances that she herself would dope -- especially given the unorthodox relationship between she and her coaches.
She runs for incredibly shady coaches who have been directly implicated in doping and outright criminal behavior (Nick even ran his own Salazar inspired injection program at HU and a prescription to epo), and then in the shadiest possible circumstances she suddenly runs historically fast times that can most obviously be explained by doping. IMHO she is the most painfully obvious doping US distance runner since Houlihan or probably her own mentor Lauren. It is all catch me if you can. And it paid off because if you don't test positive you will get a pro deal. Think of it. Every top US pro sprinter is doping, but they get pro deals anyway, and if caught they are just quietly discarded and the next hopeful signed.
Do you know why the court would have issued a no contact order between AW and Nick?
There was some hanky panky going on between the two of them when she was a minor and he was her high school coach.
Plus he pretended through email that he was a college coach at the University of Oregon and tricked Wiley's mom into letting Wiley go on a fake college visit to Oregon. (Wiley knew the trip was fake, but her mom didn't.)
I'm surprised her father couldn't sniff out what was happening.
"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement."
"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement."
That is correct. That is what some of us have been telling you. Wiley now has a sponsor who is indirectly being harmed and they have money to back her.
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