Are Athletes Pressured By Parents

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Some other athletes are being pressured by the people they are being around and some like the results of the cheating ways, but some hate the way of the cheating way. Firstly, many athletes are being pressured by parents, because those parents want their child to good at something especally in sports and those parents who played any kind sport, knows how those parents can be. Some parents would pressured their child to cheat into winning everything, because they may perhaps never won something like that in their life. Secondly, athletes are being pressured by siblings, because the siblings think that brother or sister are better than others and want them to be win big rewards. Some siblings perssured them to cheat in front of everyone no

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