Every year, the National Taiwan Normal University's female football team prepared themselves for a two-week intensive summer training course. They sprinted and practiced from dawn to dusk. The players, all student athletes, expected the training to be hard, challenging, perhaps pushing them to their physical limits. What they didn’t expect was blood drawing. Daily. For at least two weeks.
In this episode, Katia Lin shares how the isolated nature of sports class programs, as well as the university’s administrative neglect, paved the way for NTNU’s female football coach to abuse her players for personal gains.