281.5 Aly Raisman Comes Forward As Nassar Victim
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
Aly Raisman appeared on 60 Minutes this week, relating her own story of abuse by Larry Nassar and making known her dissatisfaction with USA Gymnastics' handling of abuse at the time, as well as now. We discuss:
- How awesome Aly Raisman is
- How awesome Aly Raisman is
- And how awesome Aly Raisman is
- The need for education and communication among children, adults, coaches, and administrators about what is acceptable behavior and what is not
- Why many of the victims didn't know they were abused until years later
- What a stupid question "Isn't the timing just a book sales ploy?" is
Plus,
- USAG has a new president, and we have concerns
- SAFESPORT has a new board, and we have concerns
- The USOC has experienced no consequences, and we have concerns
And finally,
- Jessica O'Beirne presents the O'BEIRNE MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE. Six areas in which USA Gymnastics must improve immediately, otherwise nothing will ever get better and they will never gain back the trust of the members.
- Transparency: Daniels Report compliance list link on the USAG homepage.
- Gymnast Union: Athletes and parents need to start a union to eliminate the conflicts of interest inherently built into any National Governing Body system and to end the fear of retaliation.
- Consequences: Debbie Van Horn, Paul Parilla and the rest of the board need to go, immediately.
- Comprehensive Training: Every employee from president, Kerry Perry to the receptionist and all board members of USAG need in-person, day-long abuse prevention training on an annual basis.
- Alcohol: One drink when coaching duties are over with a meal, per day. Period.
- No Grey Areas: All national team staff, parents, athletes and coaches need to be educated and empowered to enforce SafeSport rules. And to call eachother out for violations.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | Two episodes for you today. |
| 0:05.8 | Ali has come forward as a Nasser victim. |
| 0:08.0 | U.S.H. gymnastics new president, Safeport has an actual board of directors, |
| 0:12.4 | and I have a manifesto calling for a gymnastics |
| 0:15.7 | union. |
| 0:16.7 | This is the first of two episodes that you get this week. |
| 0:19.8 | This is episode 281.2 for November 15th, 2017. Welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 0:27.1 | podcast in the world. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from The |
| 0:30.6 | Balance Beam situation. So today again two episodes, a short one here to talk |
| 0:35.3 | about safe sport and the abuse allegations and alley coming forward. And of course then |
| 0:40.0 | we have a full-size commissioned episode about myths, legends, and unexpected moments, part |
| 0:47.1 | two. |
| 0:48.1 | We did part one, this is part two of that because there's going to be probably like 17 parts of this. And that's in another podcast that you can |
| 0:55.0 | listen to. It's up right now. Trigger warning the first two minutes here we're |
| 0:58.4 | going to talk about Nassar. So Spencer, let's start. |
| 1:24.8 | Yes, so Ali Raceman appeared on 60 Minutes this week to say that to come forward as a victim of Larry Nassar, the description, The full description of her experience is in her book which comes out this week and is one of the reasons we've been looking forward to her book because as this makes clear it's not going to be just a rinky-dink gymnastics biography she's getting real and she's telling about her |
| 1:29.1 | real experiences one of which was being abused by Larry Nassar. So Jess, what did we learn in the 60 |
| 1:36.8 | minutes interview? So we learned that she didn't realize she was abused. Like many of |
| 1:41.9 | the victims they thought that you know Larry was a little weird but you know he |
| 1:46.4 | bought gifts and he was on their side and he was someone that snuck them candy |
| 1:50.0 | and they thought he was just this is what they had to put up with to get where they |
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