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When warnings were raised, self-serving leaders chose to protect their organizations' reputations over the well-being of young people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the paths traveled by courageous women-featuring a once-shy Christian attorney and a brash, outspoken Olympic medalist-Barr and Murphy detail the stories of those who fought back against the dysfunction within their sport to claim a far-from-inevitable victory. 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Loss becomes a possession, language an act of reclamation, and form appears as the wearing of a dead man’s clothes. 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