common wrote:
Jeff Wigand wrote:No one with half a brain believed that she would be changing sponsors in the last quarter of the calendar year.
Do you have any information saying that she didn't? Because it looks very, very likely that she did.
If she's not being coached by Salazar, what other Nike coach is she going to be able to work with? Who else coaches marathon runners that is under the Nike umbrella? Is Nike going to allow one of their athletes to be self-coached, or choose their own coach and maintain a Nike contract? Examples?
Do we have confirmation that Alan Webb is still under contract with Nike after his split with Salazar?
Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea that an athlete could change horses late in the Olympic cycle.
You're suggesting that, rather than finishing out her surely lucrative Nike deal for the remainder of the year, she would reject that payment, break her contract, and start with someone new? Allyson Felix didn't do that, Mo Farah didn't do that. They finished out their last contract year with adidas, and after the obligatory negotiating period was up, they signed new deals early in the calendar year. Who breaks their contract in October?
Secondly, Nike athletes don't need to work with Nike coaches. Nike coaches need to work with Nike athletes, but not vice versa. How else could Terrence Mahon coach Anna Pierce?
Finally, to put an end to the idiotic premise of this thread, follow this link and you'll see that Dan Lilot, who works for Kara's agent, Peter Stubbs, confirms that Kara Goucher is still a Nike athlete.
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=731000#p731000