Name: 我曾是美國最快的女孩，直到我加入耐克公司｜紐約時報輿論版 (I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike | NYT Opinion)
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“There are women here almost twice her age”

When I was 16, I got a call from Alberto Salazar at Nike.

He was the world's most famous track coach and he told me

I was the most talented athlete he'd ever seen.

During my freshman year in college, I moved out to train

It was a team of the fastest athletes in the world.

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete, ever.

Instead, I was emotionally and physically

abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike.

When I first arrived, an all-male Nike staff

I had to become thinner, and thinner, and thinner.

This Nike team was the top running program

And yet we had no certified sports psychologist.

they would always just tell me the same thing.

Alberto was constantly trying to get me to lose weight.

He created an arbitrary number of 114 pounds,

and he would usually weigh me in front of my teammates

and publicly shame me if I wasn't hitting weight.

the latter of which isn't allowed in track and field.

It reached a point where I was on the starting line

and I'd lost the race before I started, because in my head

all I was thinking of was not the time I was trying to hit

but the number on the scale I saw earlier that day.

It would be naïve to not acknowledge the fact

Like boxers need to maintain a certain weight, or you know

the faster you're going to run because you

But here's a biology lesson I learned the hard way.

When young women are forced to push themselves beyond what

Suddenly, you realize you've lost your period for a couple months.

And then a couple months becomes a couple years.

And in my case, I broke five different bones.

a story about how Alberto was training me and nurturing

Nobody really did anything or said anything.

going on. Half the track was under one tent.

Alberto yelled at me in front of everybody

that I'd clearly gained five pounds before the race.

It was also that night that I told Alberto and our sports psych

And they pretty much told me they just wanted to go to bed.

And I think for me, that was my kick in the head where

I think even for my parents in certain ways,

They bought me the first plane ride home.

And they were like, ”Get on that flight.

I wasn't even trying to make the Olympics anymore.

Alberto Salazar from the sport for four years.”

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我曾是美國最快的女孩，直到我加入耐克公司｜紐約時報輿論版 (I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike | NYT Opinion)

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