Nike think their athletes are too skinny

Bleu wrote:

Manzano does not run for Nike! Where in the world have you been living?

In case you never noticed, Manzano used to run for Nike. Point is, Manzano is latino. And it doesn't look like centro.

Dude is pointing out that it's centro in the pic. You clearly misunderstood him (or only read the first sentence).

They REALLY messed up photoshopping Centro's chest....his left nipple is too low....or the basement NIKE lab is backfiring on them.

Centro's socks look like they're from Walmart, too short to be compression, to long for ankle running socks.

At least they nailed Cain's ridiculous slouch and cross-body arm swing, though she's looking a bit like Paula Radcliffe.

If Rupp pinned his ears back the aerodynamic improvement should net him about 0.1134 seconds/lap (more on windy days), according to Ventolin's calculator (TM/Copyright).

The athletes look ridiculous in their clonky huge shoes and big watches. They look like amateurs from a clothing catalog. Evan Jager, the rarified slender steeple hurdling distance machine, looks like he stole a first-year high school track/basketball athlete's crappy shoes and basketball shorts. While Shannon Rowbury in real life has a shortness, muscularity and tenacity to her, the way this was attempted in the art missed the mark... Bernard Lagat wearing big clunkers and looking like--clothing wise--Karl Malone, in retirement, put on some sweatpants for a relaxing pick up game! And, Centrowitz... the face is off, and those mid-length grey socks and clunky shoes--the effect is kind of humorous. And while Kiprop does have a lankiness about him that can seem strange at times, the artist needs to be fired for choosing the most stupid looking body configuration of the fastest, rarified 1500m man on the planet right now. In the name of flashy marketing and product positioning, the result is a contrivance which deprives the athletes' of their dignity. Ayanleh Souleiman (?) is the only "depiction" that looks halfway decent, but, again, like an incompetent foreigner outfitted by Shopko rather than that beast of an elite who just blazed 3:47 at Prefontaine. Again, cannot get over these clunker shoes on all their feet...

Donkey Balls wrote:

Centro's socks look like they're from Walmart, too short to be compression, to long for ankle running socks.

At least they nailed Cain's ridiculous slouch and cross-body arm swing, though she's looking a bit like Paula Radcliffe.

If Rupp pinned his ears back the aerodynamic improvement should net him about 0.1134 seconds/lap (more on windy days), according to Ventolin's calculator (TM/Copyright).

Not making fun of Mary Cain at all, but those big ears on Rupp belong to a certain high-school-aged athlete in the picture... I'm saying, the ears of the Salazar prodigies need to be swapped, for realism. Haha

Bleu wrote:

Centro with tattoo across his chest?

That's news to me too. I was aware of the one on his shoulder blade, but the chest tat is kind of ghetto.

A Suck wrote:

Who is the guy with the corny chest tattoo?

Bump.

mitchellmac2 wrote:

WOW! I had no Idea Asbel Kiprop and Jordan Hasay were about the same size...

Need to make a true elite look shorter to given Rupp some standing in this photo.

Makes me miss back when Nike was cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcChqf5-KpM

What about the SFH one where she is being chased through the woods.

Nike hired Xfit guy to make them RIPPED and SHREDDED.

This is why wrote:

Not Cool Bro wrote:

Why put her flanking Farah? They have Rupp and Lagat up there so I assumed the athletes in the forefront where the more well known/better ones, but Cain is way in the back and this Biship chick who no one knows who the hell she is, she gets put up front?

This is why:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=melissa+bishop&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Kqa2U7ezEpOeqAbJ1IGQBA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1527&bih=751&dpr=1.25#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=d1vJOCZI94BuqM%253A%3B2KdLrcHAnAvPwM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.blog-wp.eurosport.com%252Fwp-content%252Fblogs.dir%252F150%252Ffiles%252F2013%252F08%252FMelissa-Bishop.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fm.sports.ru%252Ftribuna%252Fblogs%252Fbeauty%252F492195.html%253Fs%253D6587c3656aa0902a%3B848%3B768

Good answer.

suburbanxcore wrote:

This is pretty creepy looking, actually.

I agree. Creepy.

Who is the female in the front?

The abs look painted on.

In what fantasy world is Jordan Hasay in front of Mary Cain?

This is some of the worst post work I have ever seen. I know a bunch of undergrads with 2 semesters of graphic work that could do better work than this.

blargh wrote:

Shannon Rowbury, Hannah England, Treniere Moser, Evan Jager, Mercy Cherono, Bernard Lagat, Melissa Bishop, Mo Farah, Galen Rupp, Eunice Sum, Matt Centrowitz, Jordan Hasay, Asbel Kiprop, Mary Cain, Ayanleh Souleiman.

I feel like rowbury, england, cherono, bishop, and sum are the unrecognizable ones. All the others are pretty relevant and common faces I think.

Rowbury has a bronze WC medal... of course she is recognizable. and Hannah England ran for FSU and placed well at NCAAs.

Why is that doper Mo in the front? Oh wait, I forgot they all do.

uhhhhhhhhhh wrote:

blargh wrote:

Shannon Rowbury, Hannah England, Treniere Moser, Evan Jager, Mercy Cherono, Bernard Lagat, Melissa Bishop, Mo Farah, Galen Rupp, Eunice Sum, Matt Centrowitz, Jordan Hasay, Asbel Kiprop, Mary Cain, Ayanleh Souleiman.

I feel like rowbury, england, cherono, bishop, and sum are the unrecognizable ones. All the others are pretty relevant and common faces I think.

Rowbury has a bronze WC medal... of course she is recognizable. and Hannah England ran for FSU and placed well at NCAAs.

Hannah England has a silver WC medal.