I know her a bit and don't care to read her book. However, this doesn't mean I don't believe her. If you want more insight on whatever it is, then yea I can see how it would be interesting. I just never cared and I think it's all he said she said at this point.
I need to read the book to see if the assault is a classic "he said/she said" case or if there is other evidence, but why would Salazar give massages to anyone? I doubt he knows what he is doing and NIke could provide qualified therapists to the athletes. Just a bad look.
This is so true. I might add low self-esteem will cause someone not only to keep returning to their abuser, but to shoulder the blame and defend to the ends of the Earth the person pulling the strings. I’ve seen it happen firsthand.
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Not trying to be funny but okay maybe a little bit
It’s also very tiresome that these type of books always come out years or decades after it happened. If you are too worried about you money to say something at the time, then just accept the fact you choose money and career over truth and concern for all the others involved. live with that choice.
I saw the headline on the front page her and thought to myself "How many people, at this point, really care what she has to say?" Then again, I guess if someone is giving her money to write it/publish it, then at least that person/company thinks a decent number of people will buy it/listen to it.
Discus.
If you don't care, why do you open a topic about it? Get a job!
This thread is so predictable. At least 50% of regular posters here have an irrational hate for all things Kara. They also hate all women runners. Molly, Emma, Monson, etc. Most of them just hate women in general.
So guess what? The posters that hate all women are not interested in a book written by one.
Metoo was a necessary movement and most women should be believed. Unfortunately there is another movement for grabbing attention by any means necessary and using sexual and racial ammo as a means to blame others for things that do not go as you want. This is a massive disservice the majority of real victims out there. Also you best believe the real perps are also using this for cover to avoid accountability.
In this for-profit book, Goucher choose to question the credibility of two of her teammates by innuendo and without any evidence. It causes me question everything else that she wrote.
It’s also very tiresome that these type of books always come out years or decades after it happened. If you are too worried about you money to say something at the time, then just accept the fact you choose money and career over truth and concern for all the others involved. live with that choice.
So when she went to USADA in 2013 and then to safesport and was proved right because he got banned from both places that wasn’t quick enough for you? Obsessed with her here. She fought back and won. She has the right to tell her story. Says more about the peopel slamming her than anything else. She will never win with some of you. You all can’t handle women who tell the truth and don’t take sh+t.
Big Elk wrote: Also, the book debuted at something like #7 on the NYT Bestseller list, so at least a few people are interested in what Ms. Goucher has to say.
Do you think Alberto sexually abused Galen and Galen is just too embarrassed to come out and say so?
Alberto is not gay. So if there was any abuse it was emotional but let us be real here. Many coaches are slightly abusive. That is why if you have any pride you leave them when/if you see it.
Powerful men and powerful woman have a dance that gets messy when one starts to have bad feelings. Both parties are adults and both parties get a dopamine rush in pushing the limits of a platonic relationship. Once a boyfriend or spouse gets wind of it, the dopamine surge decrease and panic sets in. That's when either consenting adults start to form the narrative of what "actually happened" despite the push and pull of two emotionally needy individuals. I believe that each starts to believe their own narrative as truth so that they may save their marriages or job. This happens in the work place, schools, hospitals, law firms etc.... It is inherently based on 2 people who in the outside project strength, sexuality and power but on the inside are looking for something to fill an empty void that is not met by their current partner. their partner could be perfect, but sometimes these individuals seek so much attention they become addicted to the rush of being just a little bit inappropriate.
Grown women and men know exactly what rape and molestation is. There really isn't too much of a gray zone that can be miscalculated for years. Therapy years later often reveals thoughts of victimhood that didn't really exist in the powerful cat and mouse dance.
Kara’s book is a good read. I take the information at face value - it’s Kara’s story. I’d really like to hear other people who were in the Alsal system speak out. Did Jordan Hasay have similar experiences? Seems like she could be considered Kara version 2.
This thread is so predictable. At least 50% of regular posters here have an irrational hate for all things Kara. They also hate all women runners. Molly, Emma, Monson, etc. Most of them just hate women in general.
So guess what? The posters that hate all women are not interested in a book written by one.
Like Molly, Emma, Monson, etc.; don’t like Kara…go figure and in terms of the book, I am shooting the messager.
it has always defied belief that Kara was winning world medals on the track, setting american records on the roads, competing for wins in marathon majors - by far the best athlete Salazar had coached to that point. but meanwhile he was running a doping program on the side for galen who at that point had never won an ncaa title
This is perhaps the most damning fact against Kara's allegations. She won a silver medal in the world championship 10k when Galen Rupp was a sophomore at UO.
If Salazar wanted to dope someone to win a gold medal, wouldn't it be Kara?
Watch your step, mates. I think around here you're supposed to express Kara hate by saying she got her Osaka medal in a weak field with unusually hot weather, therefore she was never really that competitive. We can't have an argument floating around based on the idea that maybe she had a solid career with some impressive performances.
I used to be a big fan until she seemed to have embraced everything that is Woke and Left. The White Liberal Virtue Signaling is cringe. DIdn't she blame one of her grandparents death to Trump?