‘Athlete A’ exposes the ‘cruelty’ of the elite gymnastics machine - The Mail & Guardian

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Athlete A’s take on the USA Gymnastics scandal asks: what goes into making an institution that sacrifices its young?

Nassar’s sentencing followed a series of articles exposing his crimes — some of them going as far back as the 1990s — that tore through the lives of his 500 accusers., Nassar isn’t the only evil. There is still the corrupt system that fed those athletes to Nassar and to others — the world of elite gymnastics.

These conditions made Nassar, the USA Gymnastics national team doctor at the time, seem kind by comparison. For Dantzsher, he was “the only nice adult”. This approach was shaped by a history that required the US to compete on the same level as its strongest competitors in the Soviet Bloc. When Comăneci won, the face of elite gymnastics changed forever. The bodies of the grown women who had previously competed in the sport were suddenly deemed inadequate.

 

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