This Week on the Show. She's the Finnish National Record Holder in the 100m hurdles. An olympian in the recent olympic games, she's a former sports journalist which she might come back to once she retires from the sport. She graduated summa cum laude in 2011 and she doubled back and got her master's at st mary's university in London in 2013. A woman of many talents and skills, my guest this week is Annimari Korte joins me on the show.

Annimari 's story has a lot of twists and turns in it from an early age. At the age of 14, she was battling a few different injuries. usually when you get hurt and have some nicks and nacks the pain goes away after a while but for animate the pain didn't get better, it kinda got worse. In 2008 she wasn't even able to train for the sport she'd been doing since she was young. She couldn't even walk up the stairs because she couldn't lift her legs because of the back pain. nor could she stand and or sit for more than 5 minutes without excruciating pain. by the end of the year she had seen many different doctors and they all sort of told her the same thing. "maybe you should do something else." in December of that same year she found a doctor who wanted to try something new and different and that doctor was able to help her get back t training and running again.

Things were seemingly going to get better, but then more things started to happen. Annimari was forced to retire from the sport of track and field in 2012 before making her comeback in 2017. There's a lot that took place in between and we get into that in the episode, but in 2020 she won the Finlands athlete of the year in athletics and comeback athlete of the year.

In this episode we get into:

-What drew her to the sport

-The internal feeling of hurdling

- Battling with undiagnosed injuries from an early age then kept her from sitting for too long and standing for too long

- Frustration with the pain, doctors and not being able to find answers

- How she lives with Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Tietze Syndrome

-Why she was forced to retire in 2012, and what made her come back in 2017

-Why she didn't quit

- Breaking the national record & making the olympic team

And so much much more.

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