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Sarah Ritchie was just five years old when she started gymnastics and eight when, she claims, her coaches started weighing her.
As an “extremely underweight” child, Sarah claims she was held up to other children as the golden example of how their scales should read.
“We were weighed twice a day,” Sarah told
The Feed.
“And what I found horrific was watching my friends run to the toilet to try and evacuate anything they could to have a lower weight.”
“It wasn t uncommon in our era for gymnasts to strip naked to step onto those scales because they wanted to not even have the weight of the leotard impacting on their weight.”