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“You have to be resilient”: Young athletes create history, but at what price?
Records by child athletes have reignited debates around age restrictions at global sporting events such as the Olympics. Mazel Paris Alegado, a nine-year-old skateboarder from the Philippines, made history at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, earlier this year – becoming the competition’s youngest-ever participant. The prodigy made it all the way to the women’s…