Sport
Child abuse is the risk when success is all that counts in sport – ABC News
If gruelling training sessions and overwhelming pressure to succeed means kids have suffered or lost the love that attracted them to sport in the first place, we…
The Human Rights Commission report into gymnastics laid out a damning picture of a sport where child abuse was allowed to occur unchecked.
A sport where girls as young as eight were physically, psychologically, and sometimes sexually abused; where they were forced to train through injuries, endured painful exercises and subjected to fat shaming and bullying.
Why do elite gymnasts start so young?
Blame the 10,000-hours rule the theory that it takes that long to master any discipline.
But consider…
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