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jrueships · 4 months

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Okay i caved to the questions. welcome to ted's omegaverse except there's like no omegas in the verse. Pls don't kill me

Omegas Exist, but... the sportsworld is far too toxic for most to exist Normally, i mean. Male sports especially, but even the wnba had a streak at the start of their development where it was originally believed that only female alphas would just Barely be strong enough to commit to a sport ( a bad mix of misogyny and secondary hierarchy ) . Male-dominated sports have the similar feel in terms of outdated stances plaguing public opinion, but keep it simpler with ' only Alphas are strong enough for Sport.'

However, this has started to change.

Not in favor of the omega, no, don't be silly! Nothings ever in favor of Them.

It's not Exactly favor of The Beta either, but the betas do at least get to keep their name. You see, betas play fundamental roles in team sports especially. They may not be as valued (not in a star sense, but a 'i need a wheel that'll make this car move (team gain traction/fans) and a beta would be perfect' valuing kind of sense. You're just a worker, but hey! At least you CAN work, right? Unlike The Invaluables.) in independent sports like boxing, but good betas are Critical to a TEAM that needs a Championship -- that needs Roleplayers .

Team rulebook 5. Betas are the Best roleplayers. That's the best fame they'll ever seem to get, it seems.

Although some delusional fans and sometimes gms may try to construct a team of mainly alphas (either a lot of young alpha top picks or veteran alpha players hungry for a win ) for the raw power, intensity, and.. cool factor.. it usually falls apart pretty sadly. They need a mediator, someone who won't get greedy or frustrated with the fame or lack of it. Someone who's willing to pass, willing to come in and be the clog rather than the mechanic, someone who's a Beta whose only sense of belonging Is belonging.

Sports rulebook 6. Betas Stand Second.

Most betas have accepted this before entering a sport, ever since Scottie Pippen embarrassed himself for trying to flip the Beta narrative and failing laughably .

Betas can be bad. Bill Laimbeer will beat the breaks off anyone. They can also be good. Pippen would try to middleman Jordan's frustrations with his team, especially the rups (rookie 'pups', men playfully called pups because they're new to the sport). Shaq and Magic both have humorous charms that make them Feel like alphas.. but they needed more to get a ring. They needed alpha teammates, ultimately. no matter how big or bad or good a Beta may be, they are always Second. But they should never, never be considered first. That's an alpha's job. Orlando made that mistake drafting a beta to win them a ring, a beta that would eventually leave to ringchase with any alpha he could. Shaq's a bit shameless for a beta, but being shameless is maybe the only path to 'fame' (becoming a simple shtick to an easy-to-remember title, either being Sidekick, Dumb, Helpful, Funny, Enforcer, etc) for the life of a beta. Why? Because

Sports rulebook 1. Your Alpha Must Take Over.

Alphas can come in different shapes and sizes. Not all alphas are big and burly. They're not all hyper-confident or aggressive for no reason. But they Do have to come and take over a team. They DO HAVE TO feel possessive over their players, obsessive over their plays. Betas are there just to work, PICKED just to WORK, but alphas? Alphas are different. They Have to be the spark.

Michael Jordan was an alpha who presented very, very late. No one is exactly sure when he presented. Even Michael's story changes from before getting cut in highschool to after to college to the 'flu' game. But Everyone, at one point, thought he was a beta. ( His siblings laugh at this. )And then he wasn't. And then he won. And then he became a dictator .

But, again, there's a lot of alphas that haven't won. Charles Barkley, hilarious and prickly, perhaps too prickly at times, can be his own downfall from either sheer laziness or stubbornness. Some didnt always 'Win' in life like alpha fanboys or alpha egoists might try to persuade. Wilt was great, but personality-wise? .... other alphas like Kareem butted heads with him.. and even betas like Magic would then butt heads with Kareem! Allen Iverson played by his own self-indulgent rules and won through his fashionable impact, self-oriented liberation, and also lost by playing his own self-indulgent rules through trouble with money. Isiah Thomas defends his team and their troubles like a bull, oftentimes a hypocritical.. near-sighted bull. Larry Bird? Competitive. And fucking Rude.

Sports rulebook .....: Alphas Can Be Double-Edged To Either The Team, or Themselves

Alphas whose talent alone failed them by being either not enough, not determined, or entirely different to the subject become disgruntled sports 'analysts' who criticize betas or 'wannabe alphas' aka alphas whose behaviors don't seem 'alpha' enough (too docile). Others become known as busts. Others disappear. Others refuse to give up on their alpha birthright, scratching tooth and nail in the gleague, a disaster league of rups, failed alphas, struggling betas still trying to learn their place, and a few undercover omegas on suppressants. They can bounce around trying to take over team from team, or try to act more like a beta just to gain a secure job, only for their old trained instincts of Stardom to swoop in and make them seem stubborn and selfish (hog the ball during crucial moments). Many become coaches whose attachment to the game is almost parasitic as a purpose. Commentating is another option to fuel that parasocial fire.

You live as an alpha, you die as an alpha. It's a Sport.

That is, until Rodman happened.

Hes not an alpha, some thought he was, during his bulls era. But at the beginning, he was a beta. A gangly pistons player during the dirty work of defense. A beta who blended into whatever his team was, a bad boy, a nitty gritty, a winner, a loser -- whatever his team needed, he became. And then, his team needed him traded.

He started taking more, at first. Started becoming defiant, becoming aggravated. Paranoid at Popovich's overwhelmingly alpha abuse of power, of persistence, of Perception.

Isiah begged him to keep it easy, it's not safe to take so much, it's Untested. It's got side effects, he's seen them from players who wanted to get as far as rodman could but couldn't. They weren't strong like rodman. Another alpha giving him his unsolicited opinion. Bill told him to suck it up. Betas can be so bitter. Pop's yelling. Such a dusty smell, red sand that made your nose itch and not in the fun, just snorted ski slopes way. And now he's gotta deal with Pippen's wary, flipflop scent of calming then chilling hormones soothing then spiking the air as most betas do. And now, he's got Michael telling him to--

... Michael's pouring his pills down the toliet, both his heat suppressants .. and his Rut Inducers. He's skipped from telling and has gone straight to Doing .

One look from the ??? and Rodman realized.

Rodman realized he was tired of wanting to be wanted like a starting alpha but personal enough to be privately pressed like a working beta. Rodman realized a lot of things about himself and others that day. 1. He was tired of always crumbling to others' norms. 2. 'ROIDing' is an action that can be used primarily by athletes because they can afford it. 3. Other athletes besides himself have/can do it. 4. He's just the only one that's made it now known to the world that He is Dennis Rodman, He is an Omega, and He's used ROIDing to void his omega symptoms with suped up suppressants then Replicated Rut with raging inducers & created a Beautifully sensitive Beta, then, increasing both doses heavily, an abstract Alpha.

In short, yeah, he's used ROIDs. But he's stopping now. He's playing completely without the doses. Not too little, not too much, it's done. Zero. Isn't that great? Isn't that what sports always preach in the end? That it's You who wins or loses in the end. Not just your Talent, or your Drive, your Reach, it's You. You, crazy culmination You, who matters ultimately in Your world.

So why is everyone so horrified.

The sport changes after this. A few, just a few, omegas can show now, like, actually Show and not curtain themselves behind overloaded prescriptions. Apparently, even betas could ROID back then with just rut inducers to enhance alpha behavior and appear or Become alphas as long as they continue to doses. But most scrutiny lies in omegas ROIDing into betas, since it's a much easier dose to take in comparison to an omega -> alpha jump, which can have devastating side effects -- the most harmful being mental. Only those determined enough, Insane enough can commit themselves fully without cutting too abruptly and creating even more damage through their hesitancy. And even if the process is completed, the effects may be harsher than expected.

Betas start to become the new scrutinized spotlight, either torn by criticism of doing too much or too little, or skepticism on whether or not they're 'Real'. Alphas, in turn, get desperate to outshine the shiners, whether accomplishing that feat via negative or positive means. It's rumored some have even started turning themselves into Betas now, hard dosing rut suppressants when they're that desperate to try and tame the ego that torments them. Some say it's for the better, some respond brilliantly to the dose, it was made for them, it was Them. Old packs often rip these kind of thoughts to shreds, not caring for empathetic stances, just their black & white view of what was once written. New packs accept the dosing, but the worst of the new packs pick and choose which to, either Everyone Has To or only The Good Ones can. Old players get their legacies questioned because their secondary hierarchy is questioned. Was Magic Really a beta? Or was he a self-conscious, self-compensating omega who craved the lure of feeling needed? And then even went an extra step with the rut inducers to make him a Shiny beta, charismatic enough to peacock? Or was he just that Magic to be a really flashy beta? OR OR.. is magic all of that at once? Maybe, if he did do it, he needed to?

ROIDing is a necessary medicine in sport now, newly designated as necessary using overstimulation risk as a reason to protect too many players from imprisonment & eventual shut down of the sport since suppressants were part of every player ( keeps betas clear-headed and alphas consolable ). But it's still debated by any side a group may conjoin as. The threat of its illegalization is looming. Violence, fear, envy, hatred. Trust no one.

Fuck Everyone ?

oh, yeah, anyone can top or bottom here. That at least remains the same. Positions can just go against the grain in less secret now.. however, that doesn't mean they're all exactly Comfortable to, though .

But you know who's mighty comfy?

Dennis is doing just fine. Eccentric, quiet, grounded, true, omega, stubborn, beta, alpha, callous: Dennis.

#in SUMMARY #dennis started the fire #and no one knows whos who really #in my world i wanna leave a little room for outside interpretation #was mj a beta who roided into an alpha?#or was he an omega who was just crazy enough to make the leap #or was he really merely an alpha who presented late?#im neither confirming nor denying anything ! it's open for everyone to speculate !!#im gonna make another post expanding on the different ppl in this verse and their assignments later #i just needed to set the scene yanno #if u read all this ure insane and i love u but ure insane #ted longer #ted drabbles

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grilledkatniss · 7 months

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We just worry

Listen, I'm beyond happy that Taylor is going out and having fun with her friends and going on dates with the male sportsworld American sweetheart (or just hanging out with Travis, god forbid single girls make friends with single boys with no ulterior motive). She deserves some rest and fun and drinking and partying and mingling, she's earned it 100 times over. I'm just worried ppl will start to roll their eyes again at her name being constantly dropped by yet another corporate mayonnaise brand, you know? It's not her fault the internet turns her every action and reaction and interaction into a fomo inducing meme (which for some reason her's are celebrated and other celebs' memes are just mean like the Selena Gomez one at this VMAs.) And today's internet culture is just capitalizing off ppls need to belong and be in on any joke and be a part of any funny movement. None of that is her fault. But despite her not putting any effort this time on being on every single platform and paper, I think we've seen this film before, and the ending sucked. Granted, this time it could be completely different and there's a plot twist right around the corner that'll change everything, but you can't blame us for being wary and anticipating the worst outcome. Don't get me wrong: we do trust her, we just don't trust the public. It's like that point in a book where everything is going well for the main characters and everyone is happy, and there are about a hundred pages left. The Schrodinger last couple of chapters. Idk man I do hope for the best, for her and her relationships and her happiness, but when it comes to the public's opinion as part of this historically effective and overused love-hate cycle by media coverage trend we've seen on so so many other instances apart from Taylor's own 2015/6 case, I've also learned to expect the worst.

#taylor swift #the eras tour #eras tour #awkwardifying life #travis kelce #nfl football #tayvis #seemingly ranch

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tanjavda · 10 months

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Let’s Play Strangetown+

Introducing the families and how I’ve set them up at the start of my Strangetown+ uberhood.

Downtown - The Newson Family

* Gavin Newson - 14 years old - Fortune * Ginger Newson - 12 years old - Family * Gabriella Newson - 8 years old - Grow up * Gallagher Newson - 5 years old - Grow up * Garrett Newson - 3 years old - Grow up * Georgina Newson - 1 year old - Grow up

Ginger and Gavin are tying to keep their heads above water, while trying to raise their siblings, though Gavin might not be doing it the legal way.

Riverblossom Hills - The Ottomas Family

* Dora Ottomas - 63 years old - Family/Knowledge * Peter Ottomas - 40 years old - Romance/Popularity * Samantha Ottomas - 37 years old - Family * David Ottomas - 15 years old - Popularity * Sharla Ottomas - 9 years old - Grow up * Tommy Ottomas - 5 years old - Grow up * Hank Ottomas - 2 years old - Grow up * Kelly Ottomas - 2 years old - Grow up

After a knee-injury in high school, Peter had to put away his dream of becoming a Hall of Famer. He did find a way to still be connected with the sportsworld by working as a sports agent. Samatha is more than happy with her big family, she even wouldn’t mind adding another one. Dora wouldn’t mind having more grandchildren either. Both of them realise that Peter might not be on board for that.

Riverblossom Hills - The Tinker Family

* Stephen Tinker - 50 years old - Family/Fortune * Wanda Tinker - 47 years old - Family * Melody Tinker - 12 years old - Knowledge * Joseph Tinker - 8 years old - Grow up * Layla Tinker - 8 years old - Grow up

The Tinkers recently moved to Riverblossom Hills to follow Stephen’s dream of having his toy store. They are all trying to find their way in this new town.

#sims 2 #plus: downtown #plus: riverblossom hills #plus: newson #plus: ottomas #plus: tinker #my strangetown+

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junkdrawer4 · 5 months

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A sad day in the sportsworld…

My initial thoughts were to write about the incredible start to the season for the New York Rangers…until yesterday. This article will be one of the …A sad day in the sportsworld…

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livewellclinics · 11 months

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Within sports nutrition and athlete’s aiming to increase lean muscle mass or improve strength training outcomes ensuring adequate protein without overdoing it is essential for optimising results.

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nordnews · 5 months

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At 09.50–11.30 and 14.03–20.00 in P4Biathlon Women's and Men's World Cup (Alexander Lundholm and Uschi Disl) 14.00 Hunt start 12.5 km ladies 16.00 Hunting start 12.5 km menEquestr...

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miscpav · 9 months

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Score Productions, Inc. Demo Record (TV Themes)

Score Productions, Inc. was one of the most popular companies to supply music for television in the 1970s and 1980s. This demo record contains several of their popular TV themes and likely dates to 1979 or the early 1980s. The following text appears on the record sleve:

"Staying power in the field of television and film music is not easy to come by. It requires flexibility and an ability to move with the times. This album displays a variety of thematic material created by Score Productions, Inc. for many different assignments over a period of years. It ranges from our most contemporary efforts to themes that have become recognized as standards in the industry. However, thematic music is actually a fraction of our work, for we are primarily devoted to the creation of original scores. The premise has always been professional excellence and taste. Every project is a unique, creative challenge.

Included in the sleeve of this album is a more comprehensive list of credits to further illustrate the scope and diversity of our work. However, we should like to believe that all of our music conclusively speaks for itself.

Bob Israel, President"

Unfortunately, the composers of some of these themes are not currently known. Usually, a production would credit "Score Productions, Inc." for music rather than listing the composers themselves. Additionally, due to licensing and royalty arrangements meant to benefit Score Productions and/or a show's production company, the composers of record in a composition's ASCAP or BMI listing are not always accurate. Composer credit was listed in this video where possible, based on a combination of a show's credits, ASCAP/BMI listings, or interviews.

** Timestamps for each track ** 0:00 : Intro 0:08 : Search and Rescue (NBC) 1:12 : The Doctors (NBC) 2:47 : ABC News Theme (ABC and Local) 3:53 : On Our Own (CBS) 4:38 : The Price is Right (CBS and Synd) 5:46 : SportsWorld (NBC) 6:50 : To Tell the Truth (Synd) 8:03 : Another World (NBC) 9:50 : NCAA College Football (ABC) 10:59 : Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine (Synd) 12:00 : ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC) 13:09 : Family Feud (ABC) 14:08 : For Richer, For Poorer (NBC) 15:22 : ABC Sports Theme (ABC) 16:27 - G.I. Diary - World War II (Synd) 17:58 : Harvey (NBC) 19:17 : ABC's International Championship Boxing (ABC) 20:08 : Red Hand Gang (NBC) 21:15 : NBA Basketball (ABC) 22:42 : Celebrity Charades (Synd) 24:19 : What's My Line? (Synd) 25:34 : Wide World of Sports Promo (ABC) 27:06 : Match Game (CBS) 28:32 : NFL (ABC) 29:22 : I've Got a Secret (CBS) 30:26 : Starlost (Synd)

#youtube #music #tv themes #score productions #demo record #1970s #1980s #robert israel

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wingedwheel · 1 year

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incredible day to be in my sportsworld

#my dad has decided me wearing my mariners cap is lucky bc the mariners won 9-2 when i wore it yesterday and 5-0 today 😭#so now he’s going to start trying to get me to wear it every time they play #x

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dislocatedchristians · 1 year

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You must listen to this!

Only two weeks ago, I finished reading #Shahbaz's book 'Lost to the world: #Faith, #Family and 5 Years in #Terrorist #Captivity' which is one of the most profoundly horrifying books I have ever read. Just imagine my surprise when I heard him speaking on..

On most days, I listen to the Global News podcast from the BBC. Today when I tuned in, I was both delighted and flabbergasted to hear an interview with Shahbaz Taseer. He spoke about how much he loves the BBC’s Sportsworld broadcast and how it kept him going through some of the darkest times any of us could imagine. Only two weeks ago, I finished reading Shahbaz’s book ‘Lost to the world: A…

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#Asia Bibi #BBC World Service #Blasphemy #Christian #Death Row #Forced Marriage #Manchester United #Pakistan #prayer #Punjab #Soccer #Uzbek Taliban

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mariacallous · 1 year

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In the weeks leading up to the 2023 Superbowl game, San Francisco 49ers’ defensive player Charles Omenihu was allowed to play in the game against the Philadelphia Eagles after being arrested and charged with domestic violence on January 23. His coach, Kyle Shanahan, said at the time: “We feel very good about letting the legal process take care of itself and don’t feel we should kick him off the team at this time.” Omenihu played 38 defensive snaps in the 49ers’ 31-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football Conference Championship Game on Sunday on January 29, 2023.

Gender-based violence is not limited to the National Football League (NFL) or even to the sport of football. From youth leagues to pro teams, stories of gender-based violence are all too common in the world of sports. High-profile incidents and allegations of abuse have occurred in a variety of college sports including hockey, gymnastics, and swimming and professional sports like the NFL and Major League Baseball (MLB).

Gender-based violence—including sexual and domestic violence as well as child sexual abuse—in SportsWorld is epidemic. SportsWorld, a term coined by Earl Smith, refers to the notion that sports is more than the games played on the field or court. It encompasses all of the attendant structures including travel, television and broadcast rights, and highly lucrative contracts for both players and coaches. Gender-based violence is prevalent in SportsWorld for many reasons; SportsWorld is a mirror of society, and many sports have a culture that promotes traditional expressions of masculinity, including aggression and sexual exploits. The primary reason for gender-based violence in SportsWorld is because the institutions and people that make up SportsWorld fail to hold offenders accountable. This includes players, coaches, physicians, and trainers. When acts of violence are reported, even amidst mounting evidence, they are allowed to continue to coach, play in games, and provide medical care.

As faculty at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware, we conduct research that focuses on violence in SportsWorld. To better understand the prevalence of gender-based violence in sports—as well as to catalog the consequences for those who are accused of and perpetrate it—we built a unique dataset.

The Gender-Based Violence in Sports Database catalogs more than 270 individual cases, dating from 1974 to the present, that involve active and retired college and professional athletes and coaches in just about every major sport, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, boxing, mixed martial arts, motor sports, tennis, track and field, swimming, and gymnastics. Even though many sports are represented, football stands out. Just over half of the 274 cases involved athletes who play college or professional football. Cases are derived from publicly available sources including newspapers and websites that index reports, arrests, charges, and citations for any incident of gender-based violence.

Key Findings

We found that in over 75% of the cases, regardless of whether the perpetrator was charged, arrested or convicted, the accused athlete or coach was allowed to remain on the team and continue to work or compete. Stunningly, many of the individuals who continued to play or coach were charged, arrested, and/or convicted of a serious violent crime.

Many of those arrested, charged, and convicted are serial abusers: 15% of athletes in our database were arrested more than once for acts of gender-based violence.

It’s not just high-profile athletes who are not held accountable. In fact, among the cases in our database, coaches and staff remained employed, often for years after the first accusations were made.

This was the case with Larry Nassar, who practiced sports medicine at Michigan State University and also worked for USA Gymnastics. Nassar was convicted of sexual abuse in a case which saw hundreds of girls and women come forward. The first incident was reported by a parent and dates back to 1997. But Nassar continued to provide medical services to athletes at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics for another 20 years until news of the abuse was reported in the Indianapolis Star in 2016. and he was fired by Michigan State. It was a similar story with U.S. Olympic Swimming and national team coach Mitch Ivey and former USA Swimming coach Andrew King. King was eventually convicted of multiple counts of child molestation while Ivey was banned for life from the sport’s governing body after years of harassment allegations.

Why Existing Policies Don’t Work

When athletes, coaches, physicians, and trainers are not held accountable, it puts others at potential risk for victimization. Many organizations have policies and processes for addressing athlete and staff misconduct, including colleges and universities and professional leagues—most notably, the NFL. Yet, despite the presence of these policies, athletes, coaches, and staff are rarely, if ever, held accountable and even fewer in any meaningful way.

In 2014, in response to criticism, the NFL toughened its stance toward players accused of domestic violence with a new personal conduct policy that included an automatic six-game ban for a first violation of the policy. Crucially, the policy would hold players accountable “even where the conduct itself does not result in conviction of a crime.” Yet, a 2017 investigation by the Bleacher Report found that since the implementation of the 2014 revisions to the personal conduct policy, this six-game ban had been enforced in only two of the 18 cases in which players faced domestic violence allegations.

Our analysis reveals that even when sanctions are applied, those suspensions are often reduced. This was the case with NFL players Ben Roethlisberger and Greg Hardy, both of whom had lengthier initial suspensions that were eventually reduced to four games in response to challenges by the NFL Players Association. Speaking to the New York Times, Alissa Leeds, a former executive with the NFL, noted, “Everything’s excused in the name of football.”

Recommendations

Overall, we find that policies are largely ineffective because they give too much power to the players, coaches, teams, and leagues to override the recommendations they lay out. Therefore, we recommend legislation that would require accusations of gender-based violence (and all crimes) that are reported directly to an organization (e.g., a college or university student conduct office, the league offices of the NFL or Major League Baseball, or USA Gymnastics) be immediately referred out to the criminal legal system. Removing people with a vested interest in the success of the athlete or coach from adjudicating accusations of criminal behavior is a good next step in creating accountability measures that hold the potential for reducing gender-based violence in sports.

The database is available for journalists and researchers interested in addressing gender-based violence in sports. It can be accessed at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence website.

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