Little girls in pretty boxes : the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters / Joan Ryan.

By:

Ryan, Joan, 1959- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Dantzscher, Jamie [writer of foreword.]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xxi, 278 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

9781538747780
1538747782

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

796.44/082/0973 23

LOC classification:

GV464 .R93 2018

Contents:

If it isn't bleeding, don't worry about it : injuries -- They stole her soul and they still have it : eating disorders -- Be thin and win : image -- Do it for America : pressure -- We all became junkies : parents -- The game within the game : politics and money -- Whatever it takes : coaches -- The aftermath : an update.

Summary: "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, this book portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families, Updated with a new introduction and foreword that address the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated by USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Larry Nassar."--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Sports Sciences Library Book Cart	Book	796.44/082/0973 1475186 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1475186

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"New edition with a foreword by former Olympic gymnast Jamie Dantzscher"--Cover.

"Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1995"--Title page verso.

"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, this book portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families, Updated with a new introduction and foreword that address the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated by USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Larry Nassar."--Provided by publisher.