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Sport is one of the few environments in which the body is simultaneously a tool, a measurement, and a public statement, observed by coaches, photographed by spectators, compared to teammates, and increasingly broadcast to the world through social media. For most athletes, navigating that is part of the job. For many, it becomes a source of significant distress. Body image in sport is not the same conversation as body image in the general population. The pressures are differen