Look at Allie O

I would really love it if she made the Olympic team.

She has the perfect coach for her right now. The guy is ultra positive and you can tell that it comes from the heart. That’s 75% of what AO needs to allow her talent to come out.

She thinks that she has 1% chance of making the team. After her performance at Payton Jordan (9:37), I think her chances are higher than that. It was her first steeple since 2021 and her goal was simply to qualify for the trials. Surely there is more there. Hopefully, she can find another fast steeple before the trials and get closer to the Olympic standard (9:23).

She didn't get her period until she was 25.

i don't like rambling about any individual's health on here, but as a general rule, you should get your period before 16 and after 16 it's time to be concerned, and after 18, it's time to hit the crisis button.

you do need body fat for your period to come. if you don't get your period you could be risking your bones, and body health. You are a walking injury waiting to happen if it isn't happened yet.

I worry about some professional athletes I see. We often conflate athletics with health but oftentimes athletes are some of the most unhealthy broken down people out there. I wish some of them would honestly stop, and take care of their bodies so they can enjoy their older years without so much pain.

It's tragic to watch young girls running many of whom have serious serious eating issues. I always think about what their futures are going to look like.

Please remember before you post stupid posts like this, anorexia kills. It messes up every system in your body. It messes up your heart, sometimes permanently. If breaks your bones. It messes up your hormones. And words can trigger it in people.

Two videos, one is Allie talking about her period and another video is one that I recommend to anyone who has ever commented on a girls' weight on these boards before. It appeared on my youtube very randomly, and i never forgot it.

Exercise alone won't cause you to miss periods. Rather, it's the combination of exercise and not eating enough.

Depression and anxiety have nothing to do with missing your period. That is 100% malnutrition related.

You are completely incorrect. 60% of female athletes have athletic amenhorea..

They could definitely be correlated if they lead to eating disorders. I was referencing the crying before races.

Of course stress can cause it.

This thread is gross

She isnt making the olympic team but no doubt she is the poster child of perservance which all good distance runners have, she has more of it than most.

She is the opposite of perseverance. All of her issues have been self caused. Athletes who come back after injuries or accidents are what you are describing.

It's threads like this that make me LOVE the voting feature. Half the posts are either idiots or trolls, which really used to bum me out. Now I can see that the vast majority of people aren't idiots who agree with them.

I got 16 downvotes for posting a medical fact.

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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Female Athlete Triad

The female athlete triad (the triad) is an interrelationship of menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability (with or without an eating disorder), and decreased bone mineral density; it is relatively common among young wome...

Link:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3...

What a fool you are. Absolute idiocy and a clear example of all that is wrong with this idiotic board. Allie O is to be admired. She has fought, and hard, to return to what she loves and she has done it in the face of jerks like you who cannot let her be.

This entire thread is filled with as*hats who have no idea what they are talking about. If you watched her video, she said she wanted to make the qualifying standard, and it would be an optimal day if she could run 9.37- which she did.

And in the face of her life and what she gone through, we have "Yeah, but..." telling her to lose weight to run better.. How vile can you be, dude? Don't hate? Way too late for that, because you have won the prize today for least sensitive post of the day. Astonishingly insensitive. You must be a child.