WTF IS GOING ON? - Klosterhalfen body shamed, now McColgan. - "Go body shame elsewhere." she says.

Once and Future wrote:

Funnily enough I'd just been thinking McColgan was starting to look unhealthily thin. I follow her on instagram for a number of reasons. She's British, she's pretty fast and she was pretty hot (possibly not a good reason to follow someone but here we are). In the last couple of months she's gone from being thin, to unattractively thin. Whether this has any impact on her health, or whether she even remotely cares if some random nobody finds her attractive or not is another point entirely. She seems to be running alright though.

Your observations are correct, but this is NORMAL behavior for any elite runner, male or female. She is reducing her weight in order to peak for the world championship - as soon as that race is over, she will gain weight again until another main event. You don't need to be at 100% of optimal health all-year-round.

As long as it's just for a short time, she will be perfectly fine. Lagat, Meb, Muir, many great runners get chubby in their off-season, then they get lighter and lighter throughout the training season before hitting a low for their peak race, which is usually Olympics or World championship. Then, in the off-season they naturally gain again.

At the level of these athletes, there aren't really any legal ways to get the improvement that dropping 4 lbs would give them. I agree they are NOT healthy for the period of Olympics/World Championshpi/Tour de France (cycling), but most of the year they are just lean but very healthy. All good.

As someone else said, many sports at the elite level are not healthy. 350 pound football players are not healthy. World's strongest man competitors are not healthy. MMF fighters cutting big weight is not healthy. TDF riders are not healthy in what they do.

He didn't dope! This is one of the worst case law! So sad about this. They '' killed'' him.

westsouthrunner wrote:

I am not a body shamer just pointing out observations.

dunes runner wrote:

That's like Trump saying that he isn't a racist. He's just making observations.

westsouthrunner wrote:

lol it all depends how my observation is received.

westsouthrunner wrote:

I think someone would only be offended if it was true and actually a problem.

No, that is wrong.

What you say depends completely on YOU, not on whoever you're talking about.

You should try doing this equally. For example, for every time you pick on a woman on the internet,

pick on some random guy in person, see if any of them feel offended and what their responses might be.

Then report back, provided you're still in one piece.

sffdfsfasds wrote:

She's surrounded by some of the best doctors and coaches in the world. She's been training at a high level for a while now. I'm assuming that they would know better than someone speculating on a message board forum using still photos with the Gettyimages watermark placed across the center.

In sports in general fans and competitors look at the physique of the athlete. People are noticing she looks incredibly skinny next to some of the skinniest athletes in the world. Not really sure how the getty images watermark distorts that to you lol. Using common sense one would come to realize she might be underweight.

Galen Rupp and Centro probably have the same doctors/resources as her if not more and they still got hurt last year.

Lebron spends $1,000,000 a year on his body supposedly and he still tore his groin last winter. Kevin Durant had doctors tell him his calf was torn. When Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless could tell from tv that it was an achilles issue. Then he ruptured his achilles.

Again not body shaming her just observing. If there is no weight problem then it probably won't trigger anyone. I do think the pro women should be more open about eating disorders and proper weight management. I am a guy but I have had my share of eating problems in hs and I have had teammates in hs and college who have had issues as well. So I am coming in with some sort of perspective fyi.

dunes runner wrote:

Then report back, provided you're still in one piece.

Dude might get punched in the face or beat up but I doubt he would get an arm or leg cut off.

I’m telling you. wrote:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

"______ shaming" is the new phrase that means: "nobody asked you for your opinion, so mind your fukkin business."

And the proper response to that is that it’s a free country and I’ll say whatever the f I want to say. Deal with it.

You are free to be tacky, just don't expect respect to follow

Anyone watch America's Got Talent? Last night the two women judges getting all crazy talking about the guys with their shirts off and making a bunch of gross inappropriate comments. I could only imagine if the male judges made similar comments about women.

There is a problem lurking here and it's not these ladies' weight. It's that our society is stupidly willing to take objective statements, assign to them unstated subjective intentions, and then get mad or offended at the unstated but presumed subjective intentions. This is a massive problem in politics today but it's also present here in this runner's body situation. "You're too thin" gets taken to be an insult because of body form, whereas "I love you and want what's best for you and am really concerned that you could have health problems because you're too thin" gets taken to be care and concern. The first could have been an insult if actually accompanied by insulting subjective intentions, but insulting intentions were not spoken, so you only view it that way if you assume those intentions were there. If people would stop assigning unspoken negative subjective intentions to other people's statements and then getting offended by them, we'd have a much less bitter society.