Imagine a girl who loves sport. She runs, she jumps, she laughs on the pitch or in the gym. She's active, capable, and growing. Then adolescence arrives — and quietly, often without anyone noticing exactly when it happened, she stops. This is not an isolated story. It is one of the most documented and least-solved problems in sport today. According to a UNESCO report on gender and sport, nearly half of all adolescent girls — 49% — drop out of sports participation during their