{"id":291702,"date":"2018-10-14T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=291702"},"modified":"2018-10-14T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:59:22","slug":"just-do-it-the-beautiful-will-and-determination-of-justin-gallegos-nikes-first-athlete-with-cp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/10\/just-do-it-the-beautiful-will-and-determination-of-justin-gallegos-nikes-first-athlete-with-cp\/","title":{"rendered":"Just do it: the beautiful will and determination of Justin Gallegos, Nike’s first athlete with CP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

His story:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nike<\/a>\u00a0has signed\u00a0Justin Gallegos as the sportswear brand\u2019s first professional athlete with cerebral palsy\u00a0\u2014 and a new video shows the emotional moment that the runner got the news.<\/p>\n
Gallegos, a runner on the club team at the University of Oregon, had just finished up a race when John Douglass,\u00a0Nike\u2019s insights director, surprised him with a contract,\u00a0 Yahoo! Sports<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n
In Elevation 0m\u2019s video,\u00a0Douglass says to a group of runners, \u201cI just wanted to share something with you guys. One of your teammates has been working pretty hard the last couple years, and Nike has recognized that. So today I am giving him the Nike contract [to be an] official Nike athlete.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read more.<\/strong><\/a> And watch the powerful video below.<\/p>\n
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Gallegos, a runner on the club team at the University of Oregon, had just finished up a race when John Douglass,\u00a0Nike\u2019s insights director, surprised him with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":291705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12102,12099],"class_list":["post-291702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-video","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-nike"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Just do it: the beautiful will and determination of Justin Gallegos, Nike's first athlete with CP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"His story:\u00a0 Nike\u00a0has signed\u00a0Justin Gallegos as the sportswear brand\u2019s first professional athlete with cerebral palsy\u00a0\u2014 and a new video shows the emotional\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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