Nike director of global marketing John Capriotti is alleged to have physically assaulted and verbally threatened Brooks coach Danny Mackey in June on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, according to a police report .
, at approximately 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. PDT on June 25, Mackey, coach of the Brooks Beasts Track Club, and Capriotti were sitting in a medical tent adjacent to a track at the University of Oregon with Brooks athlete and former Nike Oregon Project athlete Dorian Ulrey after Ulrey had completed his 1,500-meter heat. In the report, Mackey alleges that Capriotti grabbed Mackey鈥檚 right arm, almost pulling him up from his chair.
鈥淲e gotta talk right now,鈥 Capriotti is quoted as saying.
Mackey appears to have attempted to diffuse the situation, telling Capriotti to 鈥渞elax.鈥
鈥淵ou know what you fuckin鈥 did,鈥 Capriotti is quoted as saying. 鈥淚鈥檓 gonna fuckin鈥 kill you.鈥 Capriotti is also quoted in the report as calling Mackey a 鈥減ussy,鈥 鈥渓iar,鈥 鈥渟cumbag,鈥 and 鈥渟hitty person.鈥澛
Over the course of the altercation, Capriotti allegedly made physical contact with Mackey multiple times, in addition to inviting Mackey to 鈥渟tep outside鈥 on several occasions.
In the report, Mackey says the argument was over Capriotti鈥檚 name being mentioned in the Nike Oregon Project controversy in which the team, its coach Alberto Salazar, and its athletes were accused of misusing prescription medications.
The Capriotti allegations are the second time in two years that a Nike employee or contractor has become physical at a USATF national championship. At the 2014 USATF Indoor Championships, Salazar was forcibly restrained in an altercation with another coach, .