Abused Athletes: Breaking The Law Of Silence
The wave of testimonies regarding elite sport coaches' acts of psychological, physical or sexual misconduct continues to flood in and undermine the world of high-performance sport. More and more athletes dare to denounce acts of abuse associated with training methods from another age. Humiliations, bullying, injuries caused by overtraining: whether in national training centers, prestigious teams or average soccer clubs, the operating mode is always the same. By analyzing the mechanism of abuse, this report reveals the exclusive testimonies of athletes whose career dreams were shattered to pieces. But also the resilience story of a former victim who became a top coach partly so that no one would ever suffer the consequence of abuse in his sporting discipline.
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