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"Sportswashing" has become a nouveau term du jour thanks to Greg Norman's LIV Golf and the lens now being applied to the Qatar World Cup. It refers to the concept of a country or brand trying to hide its dirty deeds through the sponsorship of sporting events, and hoping some of the clean and wholesome deeds on the field will apply some bleach to the product paying the big bucks. But don't think for a minute there is any difference between a Saudi petrochemical company sponsoring the International Cricket Council and an Australian company sponsoring local sport — it's all about putting your name on the uniform and hoarding boards, be it advertising or public relations.

The Human Rights Commission report into gymnastics laid out a damning picture of a sport where child abuse was allowed to occur unchecked. A sport where girls as young as eight were physically, psychologically, and sometimes sexually abused; where they were forced to train through injuries, endured painful exercises and subjected to fat shaming and bullying. Why do elite gymnasts start so young? Blame the 10,000-hours rule — the theory that it takes that long to master any discipline. But consider that 10,000 hours might equate to eight years of training for 30 hours a week for 40 weeks a year. For a gymnast to be at her peak at 16 — which is the minimum age to compete at the Olympic Games — she would need to start intensive training when she was just eight.

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