Runner’s abuse allegations embolden other female athletes
WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press
Track and field is facing a painful and public reckoning with the treatment of some female athletes.
Former teen running star Mary Cain's account this week of alleged physical and emotional abuse at the recently disbanded Nike Oregon Project is prompting more top athletes to come forward.
Amy Yoder Begley, a 10,000-meter runner, said Friday she was told she had the "biggest butt on the starting line." Kara Goucher's husband said the Olympian endured "disgusting" comments from coaches.
Cain said the all-male staff told her the way to get faster was to get thinner and thinner.
Nike says it's investigating, but the cascade of allegations that have followed Oregon Project director Alberto Salazar's four-year doping ban have called new attention to the em