Salazar could not be reached for comment, according to the newspaper. Salazar claimed Cain “struggled to find and maintain” her ideal weight, while Nike claimed she requested to be allowed back on the team after she left in 2015, the Oregonian reported. “To be clear, I never encouraged her, or worse yet, shamed her, to maintain an unhealthy weight.” “Neither of her parents nor Mary raised any of the issues that she now suggests occurred while I was coaching her,” Salazar said at the time. He denied Cain’s allegations in a statement to the newspaper two years ago. And they did it for their own gratification and profit.”Ī court upheld Salazar’s four-year ban from track and field last month, the Oregonian reported. “This was a systemic and pervasive issue. “Nike was letting Alberto weight-shame women, objectify their bodies, and ignore their health and wellbeing as part of its culture,” McCall said.
‘Victim-shaming:’ Nike makes things worse after Mary Cain’s abuse claimsĬain alleges Nike knew about the alleged abuse by Salazar but didn’t step in.
The program was disbanded after Salazar was banned from the sport for four years by the US Anti-Doping Agency for trafficking testosterone. Nike announced it was investigating Cain’s claims after her explosive video, which came one month after the company shut down its athletic training and track program known as the Oregon Project. “And nobody really did anything or said anything,” an emotional Cain recalled. Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal/ Mary Cain alleges Nike knew about the alleged abuse by Alberto Salazar but didn’t step in. She also had suicidal thoughts and started cutting herself, she said in the video. The pressure ultimately caused her to become depressed, develop an eating disorder and generalized anxiety, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. Salazar wanted Cain to get down to 114 pounds, she said, and publicly shamed her if she didn’t make weight. Nike’s all-male staff was convinced that Cain needed to get “thinner and thinner and thinner,” she said. “Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike.” Alberto Salazar allegedly wanted Mary Cain to get down to 114 pounds and publicly shamed her if she didn’t make weight. “I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever,” Cain said. “He prevented Cain from consulting with and relying on her parents, particularly her father, who is a doctor,” said Kristin West McCall, a Portland-based attorney representing the once-rising track star.Ĭain, who became the youngest American at age 17 to make a World Championships team, detailed the alleged abuse in a 2019 gut-wrenching video for the New York Times. “ Salazar told that she was too fat and that her breasts and bottom were too big,” the lawsuit alleges. The woman once dubbed the “fastest girl in America” turned to her parents for support, but Salazar then grew weary of the interference, Cain’s lawsuit claims.
“Salazar told her that she was too fat and that her breasts and bottom were too big,” the lawsuit alleges.Ĭain also accused Salazar of causing her to get so famished that she stole energy bars from teammates. The filing claims Salazar was obsessed with Cain’s weight and would compulsively monitor her food intake and force her to weigh herself in front of others. How 9/11 helped open the door to NYC’s churchesĭistance runner Mary Cain is suing Nike and her ex-coach for $20 million, alleging she was emotionally abused for years and regularly humiliated about the size of her breasts and backside.Ĭain - a 25-year-old New York native who joined Nike’s Oregon Project as a 16-year-old phenom in 2012 - filed the lawsuit against her former coach Alberto Salazar and the sports apparel giant Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, the Oregonian reported.
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