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Former high school track phenom Mary Cain has broken her silence on her former coach Alberto Salazar and her treatment as a member of the Nike Oregon Project.
"I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever," Cain says in an Op-Ed video produced by the New York Times' Lindsay Crouse. "Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike."
In the seven-minute video and accompanying piece, Cain says she was pushed by Salazar and his assistant coaches to get thinner and even publicly called her out for her weight after a track meet in 2015.