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Katelyn Catanzariti

Stop body shaming kids playing sport: Olympic champion

Olympic champion Libby Trickett was first body-shamed during training when she was 16. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Swimmer Libby Trickett was training for the Commonwealth Games when a picture of her next to a confirmed drug cheat appeared on the front page of a newspaper, comparing and contrasting their bodies.

"The intimation was that I was on drugs and must have been to get that sort of physique," Trickett told AAP.

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