![]() In engaging but wildly digressive anecdotes, sports columnist Joan Ryan reveals the horrors behind the graceful vaults and double axels, including fame-crazed parents and relentless coaches (one athlete injures herself to the point of paraplegia in competition another snaps her neck and dies a vegetable). Gymnasts and skaters primed for the Olympics, ostensibly paragons of health, suffer such pressure to maintain their lithe and sinewy frames that they resort to measures like chugging Ex-Lax by the bottle before weigh-ins. ![]() In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters the arenas of abuse are the mat and the rink. ![]() Hot on the heels of Model comes yet another exposé of a superficially glamorous industry. ![]()
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