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Olympian parents: How elite female athletes can stay in the game
Australian Community Media
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7/24/2024
A group of international experts will advise the International Olympic Committee on how they can improve gender equity in sports.
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Most professional athletes wait till they retire to have a baby and so do older women.
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So your peak fertile time and your peak age as a professional athlete unfortunately coincide.
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How can the sports industry support elite female athletes in choosing to have children and stay in the game?
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Associate Professor Deirdre McGee is one of the experts advising the International Olympic Committee
00:29
on how they can improve gender equity in sports.
00:33
Women are returning to say league and union, breastfeeding and then playing a contact sport
00:39
where they're now at greater risk of an injury to the glandular tissue in their breast
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merely because it's taking up much more of the volume of their breast and their breast is bigger.
00:50
And ducts are more vulnerable tissue.
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One issue is breast injuries in contact sports were rarely recorded or reported.
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Previously they were not an area of the body because it was a male body chart
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and they were not a type of injury because they're glandular tissue.
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So they didn't fit into any category.
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So there wasn't, they had to go under another category.
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So they just weren't recorded.
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The expert group will hand down their guidelines and recommended policy changes
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to the International Olympic Committee in 2025.
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Even simple things like how to have a, arranging that there's childcare facilities at a training venue
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so you can breastfeed and you can have your baby with you.
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Those principles will sit down for women at a non-elite level to encourage all women
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to be physically active during pregnancy and then postpartum.
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