Documentary: Nike's Big Bet

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Looks like this documentary will be released April 28, here’s a write up:

https://athleticsillustrated.com/paul-kemp-interview-on-his-documentary-nikes-big-bet/

"Kemp talks to Malcolm Gladwell, Jake Reilly, Cameron Levins, Dathan Ritzenhein, and Kara Goucher among many other well-known athletes.

Out of 3000 entries into the Hot Docs Film Festival, according to Kemp, Nike’s Big Bet has been shortlisted to top-nine of films to watch at the festival. Kemp weighs in on the alleged doping, apparent Nike bullying, treatment of women, and Salazar’s insatiable appetite for success as a runner and then as a coach. “When news broke about the Salazar, I mean it was a massive story. It happened during the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships.“”

And a preview:
https://vimeo.com/538739502

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Interesting place for them to stream it - not Netflix, not Amazon, not even YouTube but Vimeo

Isn’t Vimeo to YouTube what Bandcamp is to Spotify?

I’ll still watch it, thanks

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MySpace?

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Thanks. I was interested in this whole topic when I saw a short video of a top female who was working with him and she came out publicly with some not so nice things to say about him. Nothing doping related though.

Sorry, I can’t remember any details about her other than she was a white female and was a top recruit as a high schooler. If I recall correctly she went to Oregon.

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This was a thing, when Vimeo (AND YouTube) was a start-up

https://youtu.be/nMuRWRqpQXQ

(shot in Vimeo’s office space, they got sued for not licensing it, or something?)

I liked the Black Eyed Peas one, done by an Art School in Montreal or Quebec, I believe

https://youtu.be/-zcOFN_VBVo

This was an art form that I don’t think was every fully explored; and that’s a shame
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Looks like it’ll be an interesting watch
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Looks like this documentary will be released April 28, here’s a write up:

https://athleticsillustrated.com/...ntary-nikes-big-bet/

"Kemp talks to Malcolm Gladwell, Jake Reilly, Cameron Levins, Dathan Ritzenhein, and Kara Goucher among many other well-known athletes.

Out of 3000 entries into the Hot Docs Film Festival, according to Kemp, Nike’s Big Bet has been shortlisted to top-nine of films to watch at the festival. Kemp weighs in on the alleged doping, apparent Nike bullying, treatment of women, and Salazar’s insatiable appetite for success as a runner and then as a coach. “When news broke about the Salazar, I mean it was a massive story. It happened during the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships.“”

And a preview:
https://vimeo.com/538739502

Why is it named “Nike’s Big Bet”??? It seems to me that Nike has already lost that bet, since Salazar has been banned since 1 Oct 2019, and the team folded on 10 Oct 2019. I read where he is appealing the ban but for over 1.5 yrs he has been banned, so it would appear to me that “the bet” has already been lost.

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This was an art form that I don’t think was every fully explored; and that’s a shame

I still enjoy Shorewood HS’s Lipdub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TI-AJi2O8

Especially considering it was filmed backwards and it was in response from another high school’s challenge.

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… it would appear to me that “the bet” has already been lost.

That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? How & why they went all-in, then fucked up and lost

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… it would appear to me that “the bet” has already been lost.

That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? How & why they went all-in, then fucked up and lost

Ah, OK, I guess I can see that as the basis for a film, but OTOH since the outcome is already known, it would seem to make the film a bit anticlimactic. Apparently though, the film must be pretty good to make the “top 9” at this film festival.

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… it would appear to me that “the bet” has already been lost.

That’s what it’s about, isn’t it? How & why they went all-in, then fucked up and lost

Did they really lose though??? Temporary reputational damage perhaps.