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Pregnant Women in Sport I have decided to study the important issue of pregnant women in sport. This is a topic that affects nearly all sports in Australia mostly netball and basketball because they are the two most popular female sports in Australia. Netball has 505,000 female participants and basketball has 147,000 (source of statistics from www.abs.gov.au). "They should not be able to play after they are five months pregnant or if a doctor advises them not to." (Annette Hadges; 19/11/2002) Until the last ten years it wasn't looked at positively for a women to keep playing sport while pregnant. But due to the change in social attitudes a pregnant women isn't looked at as stupid if she decides to continue playing sport; however there are risks to doing this. The main reason why people don't want to see pregnant women in sport is because of the potential risk of abdominal injuries. I...

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