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Youth Sports: The Adults Have Won, Part 6

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Poor conduct at games is there for everyone to see. But what happens when coaches are alone with athletes? You can't have any discussion of youth sports without looking at the men and women behind the bench.   KMOX's Megan Lynch talks with Riley Nickols, a sports psychologist and director of the Victory Program at McCallum Place in St. Louis - a first-of-its-kind intensive eating disorder treatment center for athletes. Nickols says athletes are very compliant, and coaches wield a lot of power. The owner of Midwest Twisters Gym in O'Fallon, Illinois says the system of training some elite athletes is prone to abuse.