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Episode 263 - Larry Nassar: Mental Gymnastics

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RedHanded

True Crime

4.519.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the gruelling world of elite gymnastics, Larry Nassar was seen by a lot of young athletes as a friendly face in tough times. As the USA Gymnastics National Medical Coordinator, he performed treatments on children as young as ten, for almost 30 years. 

And under cover of those treatments, he was routinely molesting hundreds of young girls for decades – sometimes multiple times a day, often with their parents sitting just metres away.

After multiple investigations, he seemed untouchable. But thanks to the bravery of his survivors – and the discovery of three external hard drives – the world saw him for what he really was: a calculated predator, with more victims than Bill Cosby, Jerry Sandusky and Harvey Weinstein combined. Hannah and Suruthi chart the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.

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Sources:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/19/16897722/sexual-abuse-usa-gymnastics-larry-nassar-explained

The Girls, Abigail Pesta

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/how-did-larry-nassar-deceive-so-many-for-so-long.html

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/26/larry-nassar-abuse-gymnasts-scandal-culture

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42725339

https://www.netflix.com/title/81034185 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42806911

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/28/581397061/how-larry-nassars-abuse-went-on-for-so-long

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/01/24/here-are-the-larrry-nassar-comments-that-drew-gasps-in-the-courtroom/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/sports/larry-nassar-gymnastics-hbo-doc.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to this week's serving of full fat Redhanded.

0:21.4

It's pretty miserable. It is miserable.

0:23.3

We really have been hitting some misery gongs recently.

0:26.6

Why did we do another child rape case?

0:31.0

I don't know because we are in complete control of which episodes we pick.

0:34.6

But for some reason that's what we're doing.

0:37.4

So yeah, here you are.

0:40.3

Truneet Gonzá started at Twistars USH gymnastics club when she was six years old.

0:46.0

And she took to it immediately.

0:48.1

Soon enough it was all she wanted to do outside of school.

0:53.1

She made an inseparable group of friends.

0:55.5

And best of all, she was really good.

0:59.6

Truneet worked hard and she had a six pack by the age of nine.

1:03.2

What? How?

1:05.2

I mean, obviously by being incredibly talented and hardworking.

1:08.1

If you answered that.

1:09.4

Yeah, so in order to be, we go on to discuss this a bit later.

1:12.8

Standard wise in gymnastics, being short and being tiny are very, very good things.

1:19.2

One of my neighbours growing up was a gymnast and he was on a special diet

1:22.2

from the age of 12 to stop him from growing.

1:24.6

Because you have, you know, it's easier to throw yourself around if you don't weigh anything.

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