When I worked as a trainer amongst non-trainees during my first years of searching in Shenzhen, there were patterns which were not all of lesser merit than for performance. There were trainers who used the excuse of "hardness" in the athletes they produced, thus preventing them from feeling hard to replace, and these implied criticisms began in a very subtle way, with little talks, with feeling of guilt over days of rest, with a contempt for pains of feelings, I had one runner I worked with who did not dare complain any more of the injuries in the type of training she was GOING, for the dread of losing her honour, we devised for her a little college machinery which kept "sand" on her with the rest of her companions, the change in the dynamics was immediate. Such is the covert fashion in which power exerts its influence in sport, that the surest protection is meant, with the same kind of care. for it is not rules which save, but a degree of honesty and common responsibility.