There is a big focus in this book on disordered eating and lots of quite harrowing stories. And also the body dysmorphia from the revealing uniform that female athletes are required to wear. Are the clothes that professional female athletes or runners, are they performance related? Or is there some other reason they have to wear those tiny shorts and reveal the app? No, I mean, let's be honest, let's talk about male drive for a second. If there was a costume that female athletes were wearing that was truly faster, that would impact their performance, men would be wearing them too.
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. Equality is no longer enough, women need equity - that's the message of former US 5000m champion, Lauren Fleshman who joins us on this episode of the podcast to speak about the vital need for the world of sport to be reimagined for women. In conversation with host Sophie Penney, sports journalist for Reuters and The Athletic, Lauren looks back at her own career to examine the damaging mental and physical effects of young women being trained in line with the physiological development of a male body, the financial realities of being a professional female athlete, and what it means to be a successful athlete.
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