One of world's top coaches - "We are working on getting her weight down,"

Comments like that hold a different weight in other countries. Americans take a comment about weight as a personal insult while others can separate their weight from their identity. Id hope the coach has the right relationship with the athlete if he’s saying something like this publicly, but either way he sees the comment as a fact not an insult.

You can even lie about your profession, your running, and everything else.

For sure! You can even claim that men can be women!

Airport you mean. Once you're on the airplane, they won't do anything to you.

There's a different culture and "ideal" body type in Jamaica compared to the US, especially for white women in the US.

I almost started a thread about this after watching a recent Ran to Japan video on YouTube. In it, Jake was sharing an altitude camp with a Japanese corporate team and the dietician openly stated that some of the women had calorie restrictions to keep their weight down. That is a corporation having the authority to dictate women's body composition and there ain't nobody up in arms on social media.

He's not the only coach talking about weight.

Lilian Odira's coach Jacinta Muraguri was on Kenyan tv and said this about her coming back from maternity leave.

"But but in all this, that weight is - it's a bit good having it because the process of cutting the fat in the body. It makes the the the athlete very strong because we had a lot of mileage, a lot of long runs."

This is about a sprinter, so you're talking about moving a healthy athletic woman from 165 to 150 pounds or so.

Not a skinny distance runner from 105 to 90 and 2 yrs off from eating disorder.

Also apparently in new US, we can talk about anything again.

In The USA we are allowed to say that and worse, because we have freedom of speech, the person may feel insulted and in some cases if male try to fight, although we are allowed to say Most Do Not, because why call someone something derogatory? In the USA while we are not that weak that it bothers us saying you are fat (With Mary Cain) who has probably never been fat in her life, who made a scene because the coach called her fat and weighed her in front of each other. In Wrestling we always weigh in in front of people to see if you make weight, and as far as I know anyone can watch (Why they would want to I Do Not Know) I am not sure about Jamaica, All I know is they have Pretty Women and are good in the Sprints They have pretty Women, Beatiful Beaches Pretty woman, They area tropical Island They Have Pretty Women, Singer Bob Marley if from Jamaica And did I say they have Pretty Women and LOTS OF THEM.

why didn't you bother to quote the relevant quote?

also who cares? She's an elite athlete, if they think she is too heavy it seems pertinent to mention it in the interview

My wife is up 15 pounds a few months after having our second child. I told her she really needs to prioritize getting back down to her normal (attractive) weight. It did NOT go well.

So she is training to make the national team then?

You can even claim you did not know, and have never met one of the worse pedophiles in human history despite all the photo authenticated and documented evidence.

There's nothing wrong with treating body composition as part of the puzzle for elite performance but in that example why only for the women?

Im going to say that's on you. It's none of your bidness.

Now, runners have a reality and weight is extremely relevant. It shouldn't be so taboo. The problem was we had coaches just telling people to lose weight...and being toxic in their approach. At this level of athleltics, losing weight while fueling correctly is extremely hard (its easier for us weekend warriors, you can more or less cut and bulk). It needs the appropriate attention. Just calorie restricting endlessly will no doubt result in poor performance and even riskier life threatening issues. I fee if you identify someone who would benefit from dropping extra weight, you talk in private then assign them to nutritionist and go from there. Below College level, I think you just let the squad as whole know that you have resources if anyone wants to "talk about nutrition and peformance" or through PCP.

Allowed by whom? Whose permission did you think you need to say this?

Remember when it came out Salazar thought Jenny Simpson was fat? Simpson at that time was the reigning 1500m world champion. That's the day I realized this whole coaching obsession over weight was stupid.

I follow college football, player weights are mentioned constantly. It is part of sport.

Unhealthy expectations do exist in our sport but I think it is because we tip toe around the subject. Also the US diet is CRAP, so it is a lot harder to be healthy and well fueled.

We see losing weight as being starved.

When I coached college I was forbidden from mentioning nutrition or weight.

Pretty hard to have a girl in your office crying about how much she has regressed asking what to do to get better knowing she gained 25 lbs over summer. Can’t say anything though.

Our athletic trainer had to have conversations with certain athletes that their old uniforms were inappropriate with their current body comp.