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Steve Magness
Steve Magness is a performance coach and sports scientist. He is the author of
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
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There’s Good Reason for Sports to Be Separated by Sex
If the practice stopped, top-level women’s sport as we know it might cease to exist.
Steve Magness
September 29, 2022