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‘Like cutting the head off a hydra’: how Mary Cain exposed Nike’s disgraced coaching team

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‘Like cutting the head off a hydra’: how Mary Cain exposed Nike’s disgraced coaching team
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The track prodigy made it to world championships at 17 and joined Nike’s Oregon Project. At 29, Cain is detailing the hellish years under coach Alberto Salazar in her new memoir“As someone who has lost touch with reality, I like to hold a firm grasp on it now,” Mary Cain says while we walk through a palm-tree spotted campus in California.She’s telling me why she insisted she write her own memoir, This is Not About Running, without ceding the narrative to a ghostwriter, as happens with many athle

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