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One Runner’s Quest To Escape From A Nike Contract

_Tombstone_ · 2016-07-01 22:08:52

http://fittish.deadspin.com/will-leer-says-nike-held-him-to-a-contract-out-of-spite-1782928613 Nike...great bunch of lads.

01-07-2016 10:08pm

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http://fittish.deadspin.com/will-leer-says-nike-held-him-to-a-contract-out-of-spite-1782928613

“Nike ego takes over,” 1500-meter runner Will Leer told me. “They never let something happen on your terms. They want to solidify the power structure—they have all the power, the athlete has none.”

At about the same time 800-meter runner Boris Berian was trying to extricate himself from a Nike contract, Leer, a Nike-sponsored athlete from 2007 to 2015, was embroiled in a similar but less public struggle.

Nike...great bunch of lads.

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Leer is a multiple winner of the Morton mile, he might be over again in a few weeks.

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