By Skye Martin 8 August 2017 LIFE AFTER SPORT INTRODUCTION Life after sport can be a huge impact in an athlete’s life, as it is a time that an athlete is forced to end a significant chapter in their lives. Depression can be a major outcome in the retiring...
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By Skye Martin 8 August 2017 LIFE AFTER SPORT INTRODUCTION Life after sport can be a huge impact in an athlete’s life, as it is a time that an athlete is forced to end a significant chapter in their lives. Depression can be a major outcome in the retiring or ending of a career for elite athletes. This is due to them not being able to adapt to the ‘regular life’ that they are not used to. Multiple Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe and double Olympic Champion Dame Kelly Holmes are just a few of the high profile athletes who have made their depression public after their retirement from professional sport. Elite athletes train and compete for so many years and are not used to the life after their sporting career has ended. This can lead to many problems and bad choices that are made after an athlete’s sporting life. They tend to lose control after retiring, or ending their career from injury as they can’t handle a different lifestyle to what they are used to. “It is often said that a sp
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