Little Girls in Pretty Boxes - The Making and Breaking of Title Gymnasts and Figure Skaters

Joan Ryan

Doubleday

1995

243 páginas

8h 6m

ISBN-10: 0385477902

The truth behind the making of elite women athletes reveals a grim national trend far less magical than projected images. The heartbreaking stories of the countless girls who stumbled along the way, broken by pressure, humiliation and the American obsession with winning are contained in this expose.