As part of the EU-funded CoViS project, we found that 44% of young athletes
experience some form of ridicule during training. Talk to your children, and do not
allow anyone to mock, humiliate, or make fun of them in sport.
“When I was little, they told me that elephants can’t fly.”
Ivana Španović, one of the most successful athletes in the region, speaks in
Sportcast by Paola about what she herself went through — the changes her body
underwent during puberty, the pressure to be as thin as possible, and why health
should always matter more than the number on the scale.
Read more about the CoViS findings: https://covis.smas.org/
CoViS – Combating Violence in Sport is an Erasmus+ Sport project co-funded by the
European Union.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those
of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or
the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the
European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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