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Issues in Sport

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Marty McFly, Jul 18, 2020.

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  1. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Just replying in here :50:

    Of course elite level sport requires intense and brutal training regimes, but the way you are presenting the gymnastics example is like you are defending the following:

    • Being physically hit, sometimes with a stick
    • Being shut in a store cupboard until they stopped crying
    • Bring starved for a week at a training camp
    • Following injury, the coach sending a photo wearing the leotard she is missing out on wearing at international event
    • Dragged across the floor by hair or leotard
    • Called ugly, fat and stupid
    • Surgical spirit poured on bleeding hands
    • AstroTurf under bars to encourage feet to be kept up
    • Paraded in front of teammates in underwear to be "fat shamed"
    • Cortisone shots and voltarol to perform with fractured limbs
    • The rife eating disorders and mental and physical torture
    All of this from as young as 10 years old, at the hands of both male and female coaches.
     
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  2. scootz

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    I'm not aware of those allegations you listed - I'm only aware of the recently reported allegations from the Downie sisters of generally feeling 'fat shamed'.

    Of course I would never condone any of the things you listed.

    If this has been happening in top-level UK gymnastics, then clearly my original post deserves a hoof in its baws for being a bit of a fud.

    I'll read more about it!

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