This illustrates shockingly dangerous disordered eating behaviors that threaten gymnasts’ health. Many researchers have examined how media images and pressures in gymnastics contribute to gymnasts’ body image struggles. However, I believe that, unjustly, little to no attention has been paid to the evaluative language coaches use to describe gymnasts’ body shapes, postures and appearances as tools to create these hierarchies of value. position coaches as peripheral observers, suggesting that disordered eating in rhythmic gymnasts arises independently of coaching pressure and that coaches merely respond to “symptomatic gymnasts.” As a result, a coach’s active role in entrenching harmful behaviors among gymnasts is overlooked. Gymnasts currently participating in the sport admit that coaches are the central agents in fostering their body dissatisfaction.