When child athletes train for hours a day, forgo a normal education and put themselves at regular risk of stress and injury, are they playing? Or working?
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For almost four decades, Peter Donnelly has been pushing an idea he says others seemed to find unfathomable: When child athletes train hours a day, forgo a normal education and put themselves at regular risk of stress and injury, they’re working, not playing—and they need the legal protections that come with that.
When it came to sport, “there was a willful blindness to considering the negatives,” says Dr. Donnelly, now an emeritus professor of the University of Toronto. “What if McDonald ’s had the same accident rate, or anywhere that employs large numbers of young people, or schools? There would be huge commissions of inquiry, regulations and policies.”You will be charged $
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