I just finished " Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team" by Kara Goucher and I give it 👟👟👟 1/2 stars.
Goucher was a world class long distance runner who graduated from Colorado and then went to 'work' as a member of The Oregon Project, a track team coached by Alberto Salazar. This memoir details her time at the Oregon Project (funded by Nike) and the various abuses she dealt with: sexual abuse from Salazar, mental abuse from Nike, physical abuse she sustained with the training, doping abuse (probably) from her blind acceptance to do anything Salazar told her. I think this was kind of my problem with the book--she knew a lot of bad stuff was happening but because she wanted to be the best long distance runner, she just ignored them. She eventually blew a bunch of whistles, but probably to no real avail. I appreciate that she finally told this story, but at the same time feel she missed some opportunities to really change the world.
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