until the corollies are out of the picture and no longer the powers that be in the sport,

then I think you're always going to have issues with not just sexual abuse, but all kinds of abuse of young athletes.

Because I think the tone that's set at the top that these kids are disposable and it's kind of this

Darwinian saying where you know if if you can't hack it or if you have some

problem with the way things are done then there's always somebody else to stick right up and

I think that because of that, the Israelis can have this program of just, you know, it's our way the highway.

And I think that feeds into this larger issue of abuse of athletes that hasn't really been properly addressed.

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Olympian working to prevent abuse before it happens and USAG joins us to

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This is episode 56 for October 22nd, 2013.

I'm Jessica from Masters Gymnastics.

I'm Bla from the Gymnastics Examiner.

This is the number one Gymnastics podcast in the world,

bringing you the most important topics from around the gymnastics world.

The entire episode today is devoted to preventing abuse.

And we're going to start with looking back at the past and looking forward to the future

and all of the resources that are available to people now.

Today's show is by no means the full perspective on sexual and physical abuse, emotional abuse and gymnastics.

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