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Does the AFL ban on skinfold testing avoid fat shaming – or has footy ‘gone soft’?

  • Written by: Dominique Condo, Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
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There was, perhaps unsurprising, outcry from some sections of the sports media when it was revealed the AFL was removing body composition testing (including skinfold testing) in its junior (under the age of 18) talent pathways system, coming soon after the league moved to stop publishing player weights.

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