Recently, a stale revelation was sparked by the fact that 26-year-old Nigerian taekwondo player, Aminat Idris, competed in a national sports festival with an eight-month pregnancy and eventually won the title.
Although Idris was not competing in a competitive sparring event, but a personal showcase of Pinsei Taekwondo, it still caused quite a bit of controversy, with many believing she was putting her child in danger.
Idris countered by saying, “A lot of people don’t know what taekwondo really is. It has two branches, and what I participated in was just a pinning program to showcase taekwondo hand and leg techniques. I thought there was nothing risky, so I decided to give it a try. My doctor and the tournament organizers, both certified that I could participate in this non-contact sport.”
In our perception, pregnancy means a break in athletic career, and while there are many athletes who make a comeback after giving birth, their athletic performance will be affected in no small way, there are others, however, who will compete and even win titles despite their pregnancy, as Idris did.
In 1994, Joy Fawcett became the first pregnant player in the history of U.S. women’s soccer to persist in the game; Norwegian long-distance runner Ingrid Christiansen once won the Houston Marathon when she was five months pregnant; and American swimmer Dana Vollmer, who won the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the London Olympics in 2012, competed in a six-month pregnancy of her own a 50-meter freestyle race.
The most shocking was the American tennis diva Williams, who in 2017, when Wie announced that she was 20 weeks pregnant, everyone was shocked to find out that she had participated in the Australian Open when she was about 8 weeks pregnant and won this Grand Slam event.
It is well known that the early stages of a woman’s pregnancy are the most dangerous, and many times an unplanned miscarriage occurs at this stage.
But Janice Rimmer of the Royal University of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the UK takes a different view, “For famous athletes, their training plans and diet nutrition are developed by a panel of experts. For these athletes, who are used to intense training, competing at a high level at around eight weeks of gestation does not affect the fetus. The production of hormones in the first few weeks of pregnancy will instead improve physical performance, as women’s self-secreted steroids increase slightly at this time.”
The NHS guidelines encourage pregnant women to “continue with their sporting or exercise routine as long as they are comfortable,” adding that “exercise is not dangerous for your baby” and that “there is evidence that active There is evidence that active women are less likely to experience problems during pregnancy and childbirth.
Rimmer’s idea that pregnancy helps improve performance may have been planned by many athletes in training and competition. In her autobiography, retired U.S. track and field athlete Sonia Richard Rose previously revealed that she aborted her fetus the day before she left for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and then went on to win gold in the 400-meter relay and bronze in the 400 meters, saying, “Pregnancy and abortion are very common in sports, but they are not talked about.”
This statement was immediately criticized by many outsiders, which seems to be more uncomfortable than eating prohibited drugs, which is perhaps the result of modern competitive sports and economic interests closely linked to it.
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