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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
- Author:
- By Joan Ryan
- Awards:
- William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award Short Listed 1996
- Format:
- Paperback
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- Published: 11th Jul 1996
- ISBN: 0704344882
- Pages: 320
From Word of Sport:
A frightening look at the enormous pressures placed on elite gymnasts and figure skaters. Enduring punishing training schedules, competing while injured, they are also compelled to conform to outdated ideals of femininity, to retain their pre-pubescent physiques. It makes it hard to keep thinking of them as sports.
From the Publisher:
Published to coincide with the Olympic Games in Atlanta, an expose of the punishing training schedules, the pressure to perform, the severe and debilitating injuries and the routine, legal and even celebrated abuse of young women which, Ryan asserts, lie at the heart of international gymnastics and figure skating.
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