430: Athlete A with Jennifer Sey

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW

Jennifer Sey became the US national champion in 1986, just seven months after breaking her femur at the 1985 world championships, an injury that led to a change in rules about bars spotting. In 2008, she published her groundbreaking memoir Chalked Up and has since been an advocate for survivors and those fighting against abuse in gymnastics. She produced the documentary Athlete A about the failures of USA Gymnastics to deal with the criminal ex-doctor, which premieres on Netflix this week. We talked with her about what she hopes the general public learns about gymnastics culture from the film, whether the Maggie Haney suspension represents progress or not, why watching Kerri Strug vault in 1996 didn't feel like a glorious moment to her, and balancing the horror of Athlete A with hope by focusing on the triumphs of Maggie Nichols, Rachael Denhollander, Jamie Dantzscher, and the Indy Star journalists.

Related Reading:

Jen Sey's Op-Ed in the New York Times: How Gymnastics Culture Breeds Sexual Abuse
Why Not Being Racist is Not Enough
Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey
Athlete A trailer

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.3	I would like for young people, young girls in particular, to watch it and have a sense that
0:10.1	their voice matters and their experience matters and what they
0:12.9	experience in the world is true and they should never let anybody else
0:16.4	tell them that their experience is not true or valid.
0:20.3	Today athlete A premieres, June 24.
0:24.3	A, Gense, the executive producer and gymnastics legend and author of Chalked Up is here to talk
0:29.6	about it.
0:30.6	We are going to talk about feedback from the John Roscoe interview.
0:33.4	Also, USA Gymnastics is doing an investigation on racial bias and judging you guys.
0:38.8	That's actually happening. Something we've been talking about for 117 years on the podcast.
0:44.0	What's happening?
0:45.0	I mean, they say, actions.
0:46.8	We'll have to wait for action.
0:48.7	We got the craziest letter about the working at the Coriolies camp and we are going to share that
0:55.7	letter here was for behind the scenes and we talked about on behind the scenes we
0:58.8	have to tell you guys here because it was so good. Also, this is episode 430 for June 24th, 2020,
1:07.0	the year of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter.
1:10.0	And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast
1:12.0	in the Calix galaxy of Jessica.
1:13.5	I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Game
1:15.4	situation and Kensley are men's gymnastics expert.
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