In Italy we puts too much emphasis on the importance of victory on 12 years old kids and this is an opinion shared by many coaches, so our athletes arrive to 18 years who are physically and mentally exhausted.
True. Coaches want to jump the stages of athlete development as a long-term process to obtain sports results, they have no meaning other than to glorify coaches, federations and parents and leading the students to believe that they will have a successful future. These beliefs go against any scientific data, now available to everyone on the internet, but they are ignored by most of the sports organizations. It’s a phenomenon widespread in the world, that one of the early exploitation of young athletes who for years has been widely denounced in all Anglo-Saxon countries but continues to persist.
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