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I was the fastest girl in America.
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I was the fastest girl in America.
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“Mary Cain!” “There are women here almost twice her age” “being left in her wake.“ I set many national records.
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And I was a straight-A student.
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“C’mon, Mary Cain!” When I was 16, I got a call from Alberto Salazar at Nike.
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He was the world’s most famous track coach and he told me I was the most talented athlete he’d ever seen.
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During my freshman year in college, I moved out to train with him and his team full time at Nike world headquarters.
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It was a team of the fastest athletes in the world.
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And it was a dream come true.
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I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete, ever.
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Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike.
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This is what happened to me.
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When I first arrived, an all-male Nike staff became convinced that in order for me to get better, I had to become thinner, and thinner, and thinner.
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This Nike team was the top running program in the country.
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And yet we had no certified sports psychologist.
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There was no certified nutritionist.
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It was really just a bunch of people who were Alberto’s friends.
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So when I went to anybody for help, they would always just tell me the same thing.
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And that was to listen to Alberto.
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Alberto was constantly trying to get me to lose weight.
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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.
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He wanted to give me birth control pills and diuretics to lose weight— the latter of which isn’t allowed in track and field.
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I ran terrible during this time.
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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.
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It would be naïve to not acknowledge the fact that weight is important in sports.
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Like boxers need to maintain a certain weight, or you know everybody always ends up citing the math about how the thinner you are, the faster you’re going to run because you have to carry less weight.
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But here’s a biology lesson I learned the hard way.
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When young women are forced to push themselves beyond what they’re capable at their given age, they’re at risk for developing RED–S.
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Suddenly, you realize you’ve lost your period for a couple months.
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And then a couple months becomes a couple years.
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And in my case, it was a total of three.
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And if you’re not getting your period, you’re not going to be able to have the necessary levels of estrogen to maintain strong bone health.
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And in my case, I broke five different bones.
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The New York Times Magazine published a story about how Alberto was training me and nurturing my talent.
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We weren’t doing any of that.
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I felt so scared.
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I felt so alone.
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And I felt so trapped. And I started to have suicidal thoughts.
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I started to cut myself.
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Some people saw me cutting myself and ... sorry.
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Nobody really did anything or said anything.
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So in 2015, I ran this race, and I didn’t run super well.
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And afterwards, there was a thunderstorm going on. Half the track was under one tent.
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Alberto yelled at me in front of everybody else at the meet, and he told me that I’d clearly gained five pounds before the race.
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It was also that night that I told Alberto and our sports psych that I was cutting myself.
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And they pretty much told me they just wanted to go to bed.
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And I think for me, that was my kick in the head where I was like, “This system is sick.” I think even for my parents in certain ways, once I finally vocalized to them, I mean, they were horrified.
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They bought me the first plane ride home.
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And they were like, ”Get on that flight.
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Get the hell out of there.” I wasn’t even trying to make the Olympics anymore.
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I was just trying to survive.
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So I made the painful choice and I quit the team.
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“After a multiyear investigation, the U.S. anti-doping agency has banned Alberto Salazar from the sport for four years.” “Nike will shut down the Oregon project.” “Nike C.E.O. Mark Parker stepping down from the company in January of 2020.” Those reforms are mostly a direct result of the doping scandal.
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They’re not acknowledging the fact that there is a systemic crisis in women’s sports and at Nike, in which young girls’ bodies are being ruined by an emotionally and physically abusive system.
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That’s what needs to change, and here’s how we can do it.
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First, Nike needs to change.
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In track and field, Nike is all powerful.
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They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body.
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You can’t just fire a coach and eliminate a program and pretend the problem is solved.
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My worry is that Nike is merely going to rebrand the old program and put Alberto’s old assistant coaches in charge.
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Secondly, we need more women in power.
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Part of me wonders if I had worked with more female psychologists, nutritionists and even coaches where I’d be today.
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I got caught in a system designed by and for men, which destroys the bodies of young girls.
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Rather than force young girls to fend for themselves, we have to protect them.
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I genuinely do have hope for the sport.
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And I plan to be running for many years to come.
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And so part of the reason I’m doing this now is I want to end this chapter and I want to start a new one.
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コンテキストと背景
この動画は、アメリカで最も速い少女だった著者が、ナイキに参加したことで経験した心の苦悩と肉体的な問題について語っています。彼女は、国の記録を持ち、成績優秀な学生でしたが、ナイキのチームに参加したことで、体重管理を強制されるなどの厳しい状況に直面しました。その中で、食事やメンタルヘルスへの配慮が欠けていることに気づき、過酷なトレーニングによって生じた問題に悩まされました。
日常会話のためのトップ5フレーズ
- “C’mon, Mary Cain!” – サポートや励ましの表現
- “I set many national records.” – 達成を話す際のフレーズ
- “I felt so scared.” – 感情を表現する方法
- “Get on that flight.” – 行動を促す言い回し
- “I didn’t run super well.” – パフォーマンスについての自己評価
ステップバイステップシャドーイングガイド
この動画を利用した英語のスピーキング練習において、英語シャドーイングは非常に効果的な方法です。以下の手順で進めてみましょう。
- まず動画を観る – 全体の流れを理解するため、最初にすべてを観てみましょう。内容を把握したら、YouTubeで英語学習の一環として再度視聴します。
- キーフレーズを抜き出す – 上記のトップ5フレーズを注意深く聴き、実際に声に出してみます。これがshadowspeakの基本です。
- スクリプトを使う – 自身でスクリプトを書いて、録音したり、声に出して練習しましょう。IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立ちます。
- 定期的に練習する – 繰り返し練習することで、発音やリズムが身に付きます。毎日少しずつ行うことで、スピーキングスキルが向上します。
- 自己評価を行う – 録音した内容を再生し、自分の発音や流暢さを確認します。改善点を見つけ、次回の練習に活かしましょう。
この手法を使えば、自然な会話能力が向上し、よりスムーズに英語を話せるようになります。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。