Win at All Costs (eBook)

"e;After years of rumors and speculation, Matt Hart sets out to peel back the layers of secrecy that protected the most powerful coach in running. What he finds will leave you indignantand wondering whether anything in the high-stakes world of Olympic sport has truly changed."e;Alex Hutchinson, New York Times bestselling author of EndureGame of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running programthe Nike Oregon Project.In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single filea 4.7-megabyte PDF named Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . . He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year earlier by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for the Texas Medical Board, part of an investigation into legendary running coach Alberto Salazar, a Houston-based endocrinologist named Dr. Jeffrey Brown, and cheating by Nike-sponsored runners, including some of the worlds best athletes. The information Hart received was part of an unfolding story of deception which began when Steve Magness, an assistant to Salazar, broke the omertthe Mafia-like code of silence about performance-enhancing drugs among those involvedand alerted USADA. He was soon followed by Olympians Adam and Kara Goucher who risked their careers to become whistleblowers on their former Nike running family in Beaverton, Oregon.Combining sports drama and business expos, Win at All Coststells the full story of Nikes running program, uncovering a corporate win-at-all-costs culture.