Trying to change the systemic challenge of athlete safeguarding on a global scale: Kirsty Burrows
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Kirsty Burrows says the power of sport to do good on a global scale is huge. But she also says, if we can’t keep athletes safe from violence, harassment and assault, then the problem is even bigger.
Her career has been far from conventional. Her first job after graduating as a physio was with Singapore’s National Football Academy. But quite early on she realised she wanted to leave hands-on clinical work, and instead try to tackle the systemic and endemic issues of athlete safeguarding…
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