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TORONTO — Two-time Olympic gold medallist Rosie MacLennan battled body-image issues as a teenager.
The results were bleak. And at this rate, Canada won't see parity between girls and boys for at least the next 15 years. "I remember at the time, it was like '2035, gosh, that's so far away,'" she said."But when you are talking about something that is as systemic as this, that has so many different components to it, 2035 is going to be here before we know it."
"Many of barriers to participation face would be quite similar," Sandmeyer-Graves said."But the fact that there is such a gender difference really underscores the fact that we need to pay particular attention to how we're designing and delivering sports for girls and for young women." "If you are exposing kids at a younger age to those fundamental skills, I think that they become more comfortable and confident with a lot of different movement patterns," MacLennan said."And then try to introduce them to as many activities as possible, whether it's through watching the Olympic Games and the variety of sports there, or local programming, that can be really important too.
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