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Burnout
Withdrawal from a sport after sustained physical or emotional overload.
The commonly repeated claim that 70% of children quit sports by 13 cannot be traced to any study. What is measured: the average age a child stops playing is about 13, and the two reasons they give most often are feeling not good enough and poor coaching.
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