Adidas FORCES High School Kids to wear their Gear - Douche Move Adidas...

agreed. from the grainy feed i was watching it was hard to tell a lot of them apart

They show a few highlights on universalsports.com and it appears that one of the guys is wearing nike spikes. I doubt they'd make them wear brand new spikes.

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You're a high schooler. In exchange for a paid trip to a meet, you're going to complain about wearing the free clothes they give you?

new balance has always done this for the boston indoor games hs miles

that meet is full of filler races, same as millrose games. ichan stinks, it's built atop an untreated land fill. 95% of the fans are jamaicans, reverse discrimination.

Douche Move Adidas wrote:

All of the high school kids today were provided with Adidas kits and shoes and forced to wear them OR NOT COMPETE.

It's like forced sponsorship and marketing.

Not to mention many runners prefer to race in shoes they've broken in, tested etc.

Not only a Douche move by adidas... The kids looked stupid with only two uni variations.

They're in high school, let them wear their own gear and look like themselves.

I would disagree; if Adidas is paying their way at all, they have evey right to advertise their product!!!

Yes adidas is bad for paying for the travel expenses to get the kids to the meet, providing a place for them to stay, and for giving them free gear, bastards!

the kids are locals who came from home that morning. they took the bus and their parents paid the fare. mark wetmore has to get low cost entrys given only jamaicans will buy a ticket to a meet on a garbage dump (literally it's built atop a garbage dump).

jastern wrote:

Douche Move Adidas wrote:

All of the high school kids today were provided with Adidas kits and shoes and forced to wear them OR NOT COMPETE.

It's like forced sponsorship and marketing.

Not to mention many runners prefer to race in shoes they've broken in, tested etc.

Not only a Douche move by adidas... The kids looked stupid with only two uni variations.

They're in high school, let them wear their own gear and look like themselves.

I would disagree; if Adidas is paying their way at all, they have evey right to advertise their product!!!

They had a right to advertise their products..which they did with huge banners around the track and their name as part of the meets name.

They forced high school kids to wear their gear -- that couldn't do that with adult pro's.

It's embarrassing, douchy indeed, and wrong.

What's the alternative? Let them wear wife-beaters and jean cut-offs if they wanted to? A line has to be drawn somewhere. The only reason Adidas sponsors the meet is for marketing. Providing all the high school athletes with the same kit seems a pretty reasonable compromise.

Also, remember than many, if not most, of these athletes couldn't run in their school uniforms if they wanted to by state regulations.

Footlocker CC Nationals does the same thing. Everyone wears the team uniform provided.

To a high school kid it's usually pretty cool to receive free gear anyway.

Yeah, that must really suck for a High Schooler to get some cool/free racing gear. Damn you adidas!

They should have worn KSwiss fool!

Kids at the Nike NXN meet wear Nike clothes. Kids at the Brooks indoor wear Brooks clothes. Clearly Adidas is in the wrong here.

I would feel like a pro if I was given free gear in high school to run a meet. Not to mention Adidas spikes are nearly the same as Nike spikes now, so I don't think any of the kids were complaining.

And who doesn't love the feeling of new spikes? You look down and see a fresh pair of spikes on your feet and you always try to run faster.

tacomafan wrote:

Kids at the Nike NXN meet wear Nike clothes. Kids at the Brooks indoor wear Brooks clothes. Clearly Adidas is in the wrong here.

At NXN, they were their HS club team wear. Of course they are offered free Nike shoes, but they can wear whatever they are used to.

Were any of the runners in the race complaining about the free gear? I haven't heard, but I'm guessing every single one of them thought the gear was pretty cool and happy to wear it.

no bus money wrote:

the kids are locals who came from home that morning. they took the bus and their parents paid the fare. mark wetmore has to get low cost entrys given only jamaicans will buy a ticket to a meet on a garbage dump (literally it's built atop a garbage dump).

No. The kids were not locals, take a look at the start list for girls and boys; sprinters and distance. Widespread scope

In an interview, LV showed the spikes he used to break the sub 4 mile, they were adidas. In all the other races he ran this year he wore those black and orange victories. I can't imagine that LV would choose the adidas ones over the victories if he was given a choice.

A Duck wrote:

[quote]tacomafan wrote:

At NXN, they were their HS club team wear. Of course they are offered free Nike shoes, but they can wear whatever they are used to.

Really? Those are clubs strictly for the purposes of Nike Cross Regionals and Nike Cross Nationals. I'm not sure that any of those clubs have any existence outside of those meets, though I suppose ones like Kinetic might. In any case, most those clubs have no club team wear unless they have it left over from the previous year's NXN meet. Nike imprints the uniforms with the club names. You are right about the shoes, though.