How Simone Biles Showed a New Way to Win

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Winning a combined 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, Simone Biles is the most decorated American gymnast, full stop. And her story intersects with the two most famous and winning coaches of USA Gymnastics, Bela and Martha Karolyi. The Karolyis are the subject of a new 30 for 30 investigative podcast, "Heavy Medals: Inside the Karolyi Gymnastics Empire." It includes a look at their complicity in the rampant sexual abuse of athletes by medical director Larry Nassar, and how Biles navigated their restrictive culture and spoke out against abuse. ESPN's Alyssa Roenigk shares the story of how Biles found a way to win outside the norms of USA Gymnastics and the Karolyis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Pablo Torre. Before we start, I just want to let you know. Today's episode on gymnastics
0:05.6	contains discussion of sexual abuse. Thank you for listening.
0:13.7	I think Marta saw I had something special in me before I knew it myself.
0:23.6	So she was always very hard on me.
0:29.7	Like sometimes to the point where I not thought it was unfair, but she definitely expected a lot more from me than others at times.
0:41.2	I remember I didn't stick my two and a half on vault, and she told me I was useless for the team.
0:49.7	That is gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, talking longtime USA gymnastics coach Marta Corolli.
0:57.4	It's from ESPN's new 30 for 30 podcast series, Heavy Metals, which explores how Marta and
1:02.9	her husband Bella came to dominate American gymnastics.
1:07.3	From the moment Simone Biles arrived at their infamous training center, it was clear she was unlike any gymnast the Corollies had coached before, both on and off the map.
1:21.6	Today, the heavy metals podcast reporter, Alyssa Roanick, tells the story of how Simone Biles succeeded and suffered under
1:30.4	Marta Caroli and the new course Biles set in elite gymnastics.
1:36.4	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, July 21st.
1:41.5	This is ESPN Day.
1:46.2	You did something big.
1:49.1	You just birthed a new season of 30 for 30 podcasts into the world.
1:54.3	So I guess first off, how does all that feel?
1:57.5	It's funny to use that term because I keep joking with my friends and family that I'm going
2:02.3	to ask for like podcast maternity leave. Alyssa Ronic is a senior writer for ESPN. She just
2:09.8	released the seven part 30 for 30 podcast series titled Heavy Metals inside the Corolli Gymnastics
2:15.8	Empire. Yeah, it's a nice feeling for Bonnie and me and everyone we worked with at 30 for 30
2:20.9	to know that it's out and people are listening to it.
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