305: Kerry Perry Lights Dumpster Fire
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
USAG DUMPSTER FIRE NEWS
Last week, Kerry Perry laid off a number of USAG employees, including Senior Vice President Rhonda Faehn in the middle of the only national team camp of the year. We dedicate this episode to Scott Bregman, savior of the gymternet, champion of transparency and live streams who was laid off this week as well.
- Watch Kerry Perry testify before Congress on May 23rd and 10am Eastern here
- A blow-by-blow of everything that went down—and why it was carried out so terribly
- We break down the argument against Rhonda, the argument for Rhonda, everything in between, the inconsistencies that abound, and the questions we still have
- LISTEN—Episode 293: Inside Elite Verification with Rhonda Faehn
- What would you have done in Rhonda's position?
- What was with the timing of this move, and why it's so revealing
- Why the athletes felt they had no choice but to turn to social media
- Why we feel Kerry Perry has failed in her most important job
- What we know and still don't know about the Nassar timeline
GYMTERNET NEWS (1:07:26)
- Better news: Survivors will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs on July 18
- Worse news: Aliya has a minor meniscus injury and will miss Osijek
- Chinese Nationals - featuring Luo Huan's gorgeous toe point, Chen Yile's world-leading beam score, Liu Jinru's terrifying opening pass, the epic return of the Tingting, and the surprising reappearance of Shang Chunsong with a round off tuck full.
- NHK Trophy - Mai dominates everyone as usual, Kohei regains his throne, and we hold an intervention for Sae Miyakawa's floor
- US upgrades - When in doubt, upgrade. Leanne Wong has an Amanar, Olivia Dunne has a Moors, and TRINITY might not be real.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | The FBI were told in July 2015 they didn't do anything for nine months. |
| 0:08.6 | Until 2016, when Penny, to his credit, went to another state all the way to California and reported |
| 0:14.8 | Nassar again. |
| 0:17.8 | It's not just so simple as people had to go to the police and everything would be solved. |
| 0:23.2 | Because they've been doing that for years. |
| 0:25.0 | It took Rachel Dan Hollander growing up, studying sexual assault, |
| 0:31.3 | becoming a lawyer, gathering years worth of evidence, and then finding the |
| 0:37.1 | right journalist to partner with to then go to the police all together as a group, |
| 0:42.8 | publish the story, that's what finally put him in jail. |
| 0:46.3 | When the athletes are in a situation where they feel like their only recourse is to, because they feel so unheard and so ignored by the |
| 0:57.0 | organization that their only recourse is to go to social media and express their |
| 1:01.4 | feelings and hope that there's some sort of public outrage. |
| 1:04.4 | That's a huge failure of leadership. |
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| 1:25.0 | Today, mass layoffs at USAIDNastics under reorganization scheme, |
| 1:30.0 | Carrie Perry decided to ask the Vice President of Women's program, |
| 1:33.4 | Rhonda Fain, to resign during the only camp of the year. |
| 1:38.9 | We will break down all the facts. |
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