4 Sep 2020

Extra Time: Are our coaches too tough or top athletes too soft?

1:51 pm on 4 September 2020
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Yet another sport is under scrutiny for its high performance coaching practices and Extra Time asks are our coaches too tough or are our athletes becoming too soft?

Two-thirds of Canoe Racing New Zealand's women's high performance squad have left the programme in the past 18 months labelling the environment as toxic and manipulative.

It comes comes less than a month after a slew of allegations involving gymnastics in this country - while cycling, hockey, football and rowing have all come under scrutiny in the past couple of years for the way some athletes have been treated.

And to spit or not to spit?

Gobbing off has quite literally cost former Olympic runner Robbie Johnston a cross country title.

Join RNZ's Clay Wilson, along with Joe Porter, Hamish Bidwell, Alice Soper and LockerRoom's Ash Stanley.

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