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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Figure skating at a high level is not a lifetime sport, the adult championships notwithstanding.  It’s a toxic, perfectionist culture with abusive coaching practices that are not acknowledged or addressed.  My daughter’s coach still weighed his skater and told my daughter to find ways to punish herself every time she missed a jump. Please, tell me another sport where two major female competitors (Gracie Gold, Amber Glenn) spent time in inpatient mental health treatment during their competitive years.  Choose hockey or basically anything else.[/quote]

One can say the same about ice hockey.

Ask the Canadian mens and women's junior national teams:

"...Junior ice hockey players in Canada have been the subject of sexual assault investigations by police fifteen times since 1989.[1] In 2022, Police investigated sexual assault allegations that occurred in 2003 and 2018.[2]

In May 2022, it was reported that Hockey Canada—the governing body for the sport of ice hockey in Canada—had paid a settlement to a woman who alleged that she was the victim of a sexual assault perpetrated in 2018 by members of Canada's men's national junior team.

In June 2022, Minister for Sport Pascale St-Onge froze the federal government's funding of Hockey Canada, and called for an investigation into whether public funds were used to fund the settlement. The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage also opened an inquiry into Hockey Canada's handling of the allegations, which revealed a history of sexual misconduct cases raised against the organization, and that the organization had spent C$7.6 million out of a "National Equity Fund"—funded partially via player registration fees—to help pay out settlements in 21 sexual misconduct cases since 1989...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_Canada_sexual_assault_scandal[/quote]

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