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Blind Landing

A Look At Safety In Gymnastics: Part 2

Blind Landing

Ari Saperstein

Documentary, Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to addressing the safety concerns gymnasts have about competitions, there are structures in place to help gymnasts be heard... but are these structures working? Can they work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is the second half of our story about safety and gymnastics.

0:05.8

If you haven't heard part 1, go back and start there.

0:10.0

Previously, on part 1.

0:13.5

Individual finals feels fucked up.

0:16.4

Making a gymnast wait an hour before their turn is not safe.

0:20.1

If you can't see the equipment, then I don't know how they expected to do gymnastics.

0:24.5

I was trying to test out my knee injury, but it was either due to your tumbles on the

0:29.2

hard ground, or don't do them at all.

0:32.6

That last voice you heard, Denysha Francis.

0:35.2

She tore her ACL while training at the Olympic facilities in Tokyo.

0:39.2

And it seemed like only having hard mats to train on in Tokyo might have been a contributing

0:43.6

factor.

0:45.0

And it also seemed like other gymnasts were being affected by the mats too.

0:49.3

Denysha wondered if she should bring up the issue with the people in charge.

0:53.4

Maybe that topic's never been breached with them, because maybe they've literally

0:56.7

never thought of it.

0:58.4

And then maybe they would consider it.

1:01.0

The only thing stopping Denysha.

1:03.6

If I had a problem, I don't even know how I would go about it.

1:08.1

And that's what this episode's about.

1:11.4

Is there a system in place for gymnasts and their concerns to be heard?

1:16.1

Who's in charge of it?

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