New York: Nike has terminated its deal with Milwaukee Brewers drug-tainted slugger Ryan Braun (pictured), the sportswear giant said yesterday.
A longtime endorser of Nike products, Braun accepted a season-ending 65 game suspension last week for his links to Biogenesis, the now-shut, Miami anti-aging clinic alleged to have distributed performance enhancing drugs to some of Major League Baseball’s biggest names.
“I can confirm that we no longer have a relationship with Ryan. We have no further comment,” Nike spokesman KeJuan Wilkins said.
Braun, voted the National League’s most valuable player in 2011, becomes the latest high-profile endorser dropped by the world’s largest shoe and apparel maker for doping.
Last year Nike cut ties with cyclist Lance Armstrong after the seven-times winner of the Tour de France was stripped of his titles and later admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. AFP
