Matt Hart on Nike, The Oregon Project, & PEDs in Sports (Ep.74)

Matt Hart, author of Win At All Costs, goes on Blister's Off The Couch Podcast to discuss the book, PEDs in a variety of sports, and more
Matt Hart

Our guest today is Matt Hart, author of the book, Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and its Culture of Deception. This is an important book that everyone interested in competitive athletics should read, and it is a remarkable piece of investigative journalism.

Listeners of our Blister Podcast heard me mention this book when Cody Townsend and I were talking about what we were reading, and so two days ago I headed up to Boulder, Colorado to sit down with Matt and record our conversation.

Matt and I talk about how he got interested in and involved with this story; why I kept telling him I hated this book; whether we should just make all performance-enhancing drugs legal in all sports; who is most to blame for PED use in sports: the athletic brands, the coaches, or the athletes?; how he went about fact checking a massive story like this; what Nike’s response to the book has been; and more.

This is a great conversation that raises a lot of important topics, and after you listen to this conversation, you should read Win at All Costs.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Matt’s background (3:45)
  • The Nike Oregon Project (18:42)
  • Legal vs. illegal drugs (23:16)
  • Drugs in sports: who is most to blame? (31:54)
  • Fact-checking the book (1:06)
  • Nike’s response to the book? (1:15:45)
  • Alberto Salazar’s upcoming trial (1:18:51)
Matt Hart, author of Win At All Costs, goes on Blister's Off The Couch Podcast to discuss the book, PEDs in a variety of sports, and more
Matt Hart with his book, Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and its Culture of Deception

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