Jessica Hull to NOP!

The rich get richer....she will be sub 4 in no time at NOP

I hope she doesn’t end up like Mary Cain

I shouted out loud

Ketone supplements are not banned yet? right?

They're like a year apart

Did anyone else mistake Eric Jenkins for Lena Dunham?

Damn Rupp is the old guy now , millennials are headed towards middle age. :(

Correct me if I am wrong, I could be misremembering. Wasn't when NOP started the sole mission of the group was to get Americans Olympic medals. I vaguely remember some story of a Nike exec watching the olympics disgusted with the Americans performance and then approached Saladbar about starting a group focused on winning medals.

And now the group seems like mostly foreigners. Or was it just winning medals in general?

KindaConfused wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong, I could be misremembering. Wasn't when NOP started the sole mission of the group was to get Americans Olympic medals. I vaguely remember some story of a Nike exec watching the olympics disgusted with the Americans performance and then approached Saladbar about starting a group focused on winning medals.

And now the group seems like mostly foreigners. Or was it just winning medals in general?

Nike's Oregon Project was created by Nike Vice President Thomas E. Clarke after reportedly being disgusted at the lackluster performance of American athletes in long-distance events since the early 1980s when Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar won the New York City Marathon three consecutive times from 1980-1982.

When the project first began, Salazar chose some of the top runners of the time that he believed had great potential. Eventually, however, he realized that since these athletes were older, their bad habits had already been engrained and this led Salazar to instead take on younger athletes. This led to his taking on of Matthew Centrowitz, Galen Rupp and Adam and Kara Goucher. These athletes went on to be more successful because Salazar was able to work with them from a younger age.[4]

KindaConfused wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong, I could be misremembering. Wasn't when NOP started the sole mission of the group was to get Americans Olympic medals. I vaguely remember some story of a Nike exec watching the olympics disgusted with the Americans performance and then approached Saladbar about starting a group focused on winning medals.

And now the group seems like mostly foreigners. Or was it just winning medals in general?

Rupp- oly silver, oly bronze

Centro- oly gold, world indoor gold, WC silver, WC bronze

Rowbury- WC bronze, world indoor bronze

Americans at nop: brazier, Murphy, jenkins, rupp, rowbury, hasay

Non-Americans at nop: koko, Kejelcha, Hassan, hull, osako

Can someone remind me what the goal(s) of the Oregon Project are? I though the whole purpose of the the group was focused on getting AMERICAN athletes to be globally competitive and win medals. At some point that shifted and has continued to shift dramatically to focus on getting any athlete to be globally competitive. Was some sort of official or unofficial statement ever made?

Wikipedia still says, "Nike's Oregon Project is a group created by the athletic shoe company Nike in 2001 to promote American long-distance running. The runners live in the Portland, Oregon, area and train at Nike's headquarters campus located just outside the Portland suburb of Beaverton, Oregon."

From

https://nikeoregonproject.com/pages/team

today:

"Once a dominating Global force in the 80’s, American Distance running fell into a drought during the 90’s which bled into the next millennium. After keeping pace with the rest of the world, winning Olympic medals and setting World Records, the medals, records, and wins suddenly stopped. Salazar set out to change this mindset and get American distance running back on top, where it belonged."

I think they need to update their page/mission statement as the focus is clearly now on the best athletes globally.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Hull fan and it doesn't really bother me that Siffan and Kejelcha and Koko are crushing it, but if the goal has changed, they should say it.

prob not wrote:

They're like a year apart

What's like a year?

Who is the woman standing next to Hull?

PS Rupp's the old guy? When did that happen?

Drawing a Blank Here wrote:

Who is the woman standing next to Hull?

PS Rupp's the old guy? When did that happen?

Someone already said. Do you not read? Is that Joe Dirt on the far left? Has he found his family yet? KOKO - dang her legs are as skinny as they come. Really worrisome.

lmao

Curious ... wrote:

prob not wrote:

They're like a year apart

What's like a year?

I was wrong: Hull was born Oct 1996 while Cain was born in May 1996. Interesting how things turned out.

Who is between Jenkins and Murphy?

Ariana Washington, multiple time NCAA Champion/2016 Olympian, Clayton's girlfriend

I heard Salazar has taken over her coaching

she is a sprinter, that would be quite the shock