A growing number of female athletes are considering fertility preservation options, with federations and teams increasingly offering egg freezing to elite sportswomen.
The full implications of these treatments, however, remain to be assessed — including how they may safely fit alongside high-demand training regimens, how long-term storage will be funded, and who will pay for the procedures needed to use frozen gametes for conception.
Experts also caution against fertility preservation being used to pressure athletes into delaying motherhood.
'... we need to make sure that if they want to have children during their careers, that is an opportunity for them, ' said Professor Kirsty Elliott-Sale, the head of the Centre for Excellence for Women in Sport at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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