Little Girls in Pretty Boxes : The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes : The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
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Author(s): Ryan, Joan
ISBN No.: 9781538747780
Pages: 304
Year: 201807
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 30.35
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY FORMER OLYMPIC GYMNAST JAMIE DANTZSCHER A timely new edition of the groundbreaking expose about elite gymnastics training, with a new foreword by former Olympian Jamie Dantzscher and the latest on USA Gymnastics' sexual abuse scandal. Welcome to the world of women's gymnastics and figure skating--the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors. From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Béla Károlyi, LITTLE GIRLS IN PRETTY BOXES portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families--and is now updated with a new introduction and foreword that address the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated by USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Larry Nassar. This groundbreaking book shows how a longstanding culture of abuse made young gymnasts perfect targets for a sexual predator, and continues to plead for sanity, safety, and an end to our national obsession: winning at any cost.


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