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Featuring the first Team USA transgender athlete
Chris Mosier is filmed preparing for a race as the voiceover asks questions such as "How’d you know you’d be strong enough to compete against men" as he responds "I didn’t" to each of them.
Empowering young girls
A young girl gets halfway through a stage performance about little girls being made of "flowers and rings" before she surprises the audience by changing the lyrics as female athletes burst in.
Attempting a sub-two-hour marathon
Although Nike didn’t manage to break the two-hour barrier for running a marathon, it did create a piece of work that got the world talking, with 13.1 million people tuning into the Twitter live stream.
Tackling prejudice among Middle Eastern women
"What will they say about you" follows young women tackling social norms.
Standing up for racial equality
"Worth should outshine colour," a voiceover in this ad, launched during Black History Month last year, intones. The spot features LeBron James and Serena Williams and is soundtracked by Alicia Keys' cover of the Sam Cooke song A Change is Gonna Come.
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