The big fish to punish is Nike and their CEO.
Salazar and his runners should all be banned but they are the small fish. Nike supported NOP, and many other suspicious runners and athletes like Armstrong.
Nike is the athletic big bank - too big to fail. But it is time they should be penalized big time.
If anything, they only got a big prize during 1:59 yesterday... ridiculous.
I hope athletes start speaking up.
Exactly!
USADA and WADA should pull up their sleeves. This is like an epo supply chain
And indeed all runners connected to Salazar should be runner including “sir mo”
Mosestanui wrote:
The big fish to punish is Nike and their CEO.
Nike is the athletic big bank - too big to fail. But it is time they should be penalized big time.
If anything, they only got a big prize during 1:59 yesterday... ridiculous.
I hope athletes start speaking up.
Need whistleblowers
How do you punish a company that funds money and resources into running events? Should the IAAF stop accepting athletes that have an affiliation with the brand? Should events such as the Chicago marathon no longer accept a future partnership when the current one expires? Should Nike liquidate and get rid of NXN and all other Nike sponsored cross country races? All are of course ridiculous questions. It doesn't seem reasonable to tarnish something simply because a couple of people took Nike's money and used it for illegal purposes. Even more so when these athletes, agents, and coaches are near the bottom of the barrel in terms of Nike's focus and their actual monetary pay scale. compared to others that Nike supports. We know that regarding the complaints of many of the former Nike athletes who's NDAs expired.
It's on Worlds Athletics/IAAF and WADA. Athletes are speaking out but more is always better. Bans longer than 2 years are necessary and punishment towards agents that recruit poor athletes and tell them they need to take drugs to get better so that they can make money should be punished too.
Are you guys ignorant to the business world? Nike isn’t just too big to fail, they’ve been doing fantastic for the past several years. Also, I’m sure that running is a relatively small fraction of their business compared to major sports and even casual fashion.
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