wrgpowefpj wrote:
While I do feel incredible sympathy for Mary, she clearly wasn't helping herself in this situation and should take some of the blame upon herself.
In this article, she praises the Oregon Project and how they are "a great group of people", which she went out of the way to say and did not have to say at all. If she really wanted help, she should have made herself a little more transparent instead of outright lying to the media.
That being say, I do understand why she felt pressured to do what she did, and I probably would've done the same thing. I had respect for Alberto up until this point, but after watching that video I can't be more glad that he's banned.
https://spikes.iaaf.org/post/mary-cain-i-just-have-so-much-fun?utm_source=iaaf.org&utm_medium=gridclick
This article was written right when she had just moved to Oregon to train with the team. None of that stuff had started happening in earnest yet:
“The plan is to be with everyone else, with the training and great coaching,” she says
yeah, i'm sure that was the plan
and yet even before she was in Oregon, it still includes:
"Oh my God. He was yelling. I felt so bad – he was so freaked out!"
and
‘I know I’m hard on you. But that’s what you have to be to get on that next level.’
that spikes article is both written before most of this stuff went down and also supports the environment she describes now.