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Re: one Bear's view

Loud and clear, sir.

Mark
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Michael Bryant wrote:

>
> > Does anyone think that Charles Barkley or Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson
> > hasn't been training his ass off since *well* before he was
> > nineteen?  Under pressure from parents and/or big brothers and sisters
> > and friends?
> >
> > Very few look at these and other male atheletes, icing their knees after
> > walks to the corner store, and shed a tear.  Parents who relentlessly
> > force young kids to be great -- against the kids' desires -- will likely
> > soon grow bored; and those who don't are jerks regardless of their
> > child's gender.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
> Greetings Mr. West,
>
>     I don't think this issue deserves the quick dismissal you seem to
> desire. The latest edition of New England Journal of Medicine,
> released just two days ago, specifically evaluated the physical and
> dietary stresses placed on female gymnasts in current training
> regimines and declared it was nothing more than institutionalized
> child abuse. That was their exact conclusion.
>
>     Maybe all sports training is tough, but dietary programs that
> result in a nineteen year-old looking like a twelve year old need to
> be examined. If a coach ruins a prospective baseball pitcher's arm by
> forcing him to pitch curves with a sore arm, I think that is abuse.
> Regardless of gender, our job ought to be to promote excellence short
> of dehumanizing and dangerous means. When students become little more
> than means to the gold, something really has gone wrong.
>
> Say hello to Artemus for me,
>
> Bear
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