CEO Parker says Nike supports Salazar but the ‘situation is a distraction for many of the athletes’
The Nike Oregon Project, the nearly two-decade-old elite training group created to restore the primacy of American distance running, is being shut down, according to a memo from Nike Inc. Chief Executive Mark Parker to company employees.
The news came 10 days after Oregon Project head coach Alberto Salazar was given a four-year ban by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for doping conduct.
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