USATF issues statement regarding Oregonian article alleging body shaming on Oregon track team

the answer to your question is virtue signaling.

The issue here is obvious. USATF is freaking out because they recognized real quick that their overly close relationship to the U of O and the complaints coming out Goe’s article indicate a fear of retribution at the USATF level - loss of funding, post-collegiate support, insurance, etc paints them into a corner and they are just in CYA mode. They see the massive potential lawsuit and want to be proactive.

high school xc coach wrote:

the answer to your question is virtue signaling.

As a member, I enjoy getting virtue signaling emails from them every so often. It lets me know I should continue to support them.

Virtue wrote:

high school xc coach wrote:

the answer to your question is virtue signaling.

As a member, I enjoy getting virtue signaling emails from them every so often. It lets me know I should continue to support them.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of virtue signaling they do and membership cost increases. So it looks like we're do for another one soon.

YAY!

There's been some issues within other sports lately. The NFL/Washington Football team abusive emails and behavior scandal. The Chicago Blackhawks hockey team historical sexual assault scandal are a couple that come to mind. There was a common theme of complicity, ignorance and enabling of abuse in these cases. Perhaps USATF learned from those failures and doesn't want to be labeled complicit and enabling of any abuse.

Virtue wrote:

Virtue wrote:

As a member, I enjoy getting virtue signaling emails from them every so often. It lets me know I should continue to support them.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of virtue signaling they do and membership cost increases. So it looks like we're do for another one soon.

YAY!

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The reason for their statement is the same reason when the “me too” movement took hold, suddenly every organization got religion on the subjects of sexual harassment and sexually “inappropriate” behavior. It is easy enough to distance yourself from a potential problem by preaching about it.

I hear their lawyers speaking and a big metal plate being fixed to backsides.

This will come to all sports in the West.

In the UK track and field is run on a voluntary basis and I can’t see why anyone should risk exposure of their family life and assets to this environment.

Drug testing has killed the sport at the top and Safe Sport will kill the rest.

Oregon = Nike

Alberto Salazar = Nike

USATF = Nike

They are getting out in front of this because Mary Cain and this latest article are going to open the floodgates. Over the next few weeks, you are going to see a lot of women athletes, past and present, detailing stories of body shaming and eating disorders exacerbated by coaches. USATF is preparing because they know it is coming. While it doesn't rise to USA Gymnastics levels of criminality, Max and Co. do not want to be placed under the microscope of a Congressional investigation nor risk USOC and SafeSport seeking to decertify the federation if widespread abuse and non-reporting/cover ups are found.

I am speculating that the phone and e-mail traffic between Beaverton and Indianapolis is heavy these days. Nike wants this out of the headlines ASAP.

The 4 x 100 and WC selection stuff is internal politics that no one really cares about. Are you guys even connected to the sport or the real world? The New York Times will not write a scathing expose demanding fairness for some 2:11 marathoner that got "screwed" out of a trip to Eugene. There is also no national outcry about how bad relay handoffs are upsetting the geopolitical status of the country.

high school xc coach wrote:

the answer to your question is virtue signaling.

Bingo.

How much does the head of Usatf earn per year again?

Remember, these are the same people that heap accolades on and give responsibilities to Dennis Mitchell.

Rojo is 1000000% correct.

USATF is run by corrupt idiots.

LetsRun.com wrote:

This is an organization that consistently goes out of its not issue statements when we ask to speak to the coaches about what happened at the 4 x 100 in Tokyo or how the WC marathon standards were set.

Tell me you are Rojo without telling me you are Rojo.

pleasing no one wrote:Remember, these are the same people that heap accolades on and give responsibilities to Dennis Mitchell.

Bingo. Again and again.

I'll Take This One... wrote:

Oregon = Nike

Alberto Salazar = Nike

USATF = Nike

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Nike wants this out of the headlines ASAP.

Yes, but it won't be that easy, fortunately.

Golly, gee whillikers!

I would like to issue a statement on behalf of those crying in the wilderness:

It's a good day to be alive. Stay away from High Fructose Corn Syrup. Avoid the Interweb. Run more. Worry Less.

Pray for the Uighurs, Tibetans, and East Irvine Soccer Moms. Avoid night running. Don't buy running shoes made in countries that exploit their citizens and offer no freedom of expression and religion. Don't support non-profit running organizations that are beholden to large corporate interests and not to their athletes best interests.

Thank God for all you have and all you don't.

Concerned Earth Denizen

I agree ; there may well be decades of this stuff sat there to explode.

I have tried to take this forward to a volunteer UK system to ask who would risk involvement.

Sports don’t have the resources to deal with it all.

As athletics in the uk is dying the recently resigned CEO said that safe guarding was her priority. May need to be for a variety of reasons but other matters will have to be relegated or ignored.

What a backwards way to put out this take. Make threads when things happen that you want USATF to speak on. Don't take away from a good statement now & stir up partisan nonsense.

Public Universities should use affirmative action and set aside scholarships for fat runners. The only fair thing to do.