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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

They call it sport

While news in the UK revealed the abuse of gymnasts, a Human Rights Watch report has found child athletes in Japan often suffer physical and verbal abuse and sometimes sexual abuse when training for sport after documenting the experiences of over 800 athletes in 50 sports. 

The 67-page report released on Monday titled "I Was Hit So Many Times I Can't Count" looks at Japan's history of physical punishment in sport and includes first-hand accounts of athletes being punched, kicked and whipped.

"For decades, children in Japan have been brutally beaten and verbally abused in the name of winning trophies and medals," Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in a statement.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200720-japanese-child-athletes-brutally-beaten-and-abused-human-rights-watch-report-finds

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