US gymnasts tell AP sport rife with verbal, emotional abuse

US gymnasts tell AP sport rife with verbal, emotional abuseThey were little girls with dreams of Olympic gold when they started in gymnastics. Now they're women with lifelong injuries, suffocating anxiety and debilitating eating disorders.

Here's an idea – Get any group of girls of any range of ages and get them to adhere to any program.
The complaints will be identical.
Women and children have not been systematically beaten down and put to task as men and boys have.
It is mean to not give money to a pretty picture on Facebook when she asks you for help as part of her salutation.
They, for the most part, just don't get it – thinking life should be a big Disney smile chasing happiness faster than it can attempt to evade their capture while never being offended…