Skinny Chops wrote:
Salazar would have told a guy to lose weight if they put 15 pounds on. It had nothing to do with sex.
Exactly. The guy was trying to make people world best runners.
What was Mary's reason for not participating and at least talking to the internal investigators? She would sound a lot more credible to me if she participated in it. Maybe she didn't want to be called out on the inconsistencies in her story?
Mary challenged Nike to have an open investigation by a third party and they chose to do an internal investigation in order to hide real info. I don't blame her for not participating as she shouldn't have. It's likely to be just swept under the rug with no resolution.[/quote]
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No, no, forget about investigations by Nike or some outside group....let Mary go to the police/district attorney if she believes she is victim of a crime. If she doesn't want to do that let her hire an attorney to bring a civil case against Nike. Some would call it a shakedown but at least it is in the judicial system rather than the media. They settle, Mary gets some money and agrees to shut her trap and no longer make insinuations against her former employee and her former coach. Moving right along..................
rekrunner wrote:
It's so easy to criticize Nike, but ... does Nike owe anyone anything in this whole story?
I feel for Mary, and other women, who suffered emotional and physical stress, but it doesn't seem like Nike was required to do any investigation at all, either internally or independently.
I think it doesn't look all that fair on the part of Mary, that she never said anything before, and refused to offer feedback during Nike's investigation into the issue, and then complain about not being informed of the results.
I guess what Nike found was that an elite program run mostly by men was insensitive to the specific physical and psychological needs of women.
Seems like this list of initiatives should be viewed as a victory for women, or at least as a step forward.
The initiatives that Nike identified include:
• Investing in scientific research into the impact of elite athlete training of girls and women
• Increasing the number of women coaches in sports
• Hiring a vice president of global women’s sports marketing in the coming weeks to have “strategic oversight” of Nike’s female athletes
• Creating an athlete think tank to help the company understand the opportunities and challenges faced by female athletes
• Partnering with Crisis Text Line, a free, confidential text messaging service for people to ask for help when in crisis
Who would be potential females Nike would add as pro distance coaches? Shalane is an obvious answer, but anyone else? I'd like to see them really do something about it and add a woman as the lead coach of one of their groups.
coach c dub wrote:
Who would be potential females Nike would add as pro distance coaches? Shalane is an obvious answer, but anyone else? I'd like to see them really do something about it and add a woman as the
lead coach of one of their groups.
Paula.