In her new book, “The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team,” champion runner Kara Goucher reveals the dark underbelly of th…
lay facedown on her hotel bed as her coach, Alberto Salazar, massaged her legs.
In 2007, Goucher won the bronze in the 10,000m run at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan.Later, as a student at the University of Colorado, she became NCAA champion in the 3000m, 5000m, and Cross Country.After her 2001 graduation, Goucher was invited to join Nike’s elite Oregon Project, in Portland, Oregon, along with her husband and fellow runner, Adam Goucher. Goucher’s father was killed in a car accident when she was 3 years old.
“For a mainstream company, especially a sports brand, to put a pregnant athlete front and center was revolutionary,” she writes. “I felt like we were tapping into a community that the sports world had long neglected.”After college, Goucher joined Nike’s Oregon Project, an elite running team, under head coach Alberto Salazar .
After her son Colt was born, Goucher writes, she was threatened with a 25% reduction in her Nike salary if she missed a competition.Stepping away from the bleachers, she called her husband and said she couldn’t believe the results that Farah was achieving.Adam Goucher showing off a Nike ad featuring his wife Kara.Suddenly, all of the doubts that Goucher had about Salazar seemed to make sense — the mysterious vials she had seen in team refrigerators, a shadowy man named “Dr.
After “the pregnancy thing,” she had been threatened with a 25% reduction in her Nike salary if she missed the competition.thOn the flight across the Pacific, Goucher alleges Salazar took to the red wine again and talked explicitly about sex — telling her about having sex in a hot tub with another female runner.
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