The toxic culture of elite gymnastics: Larry Nassar revisited
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The Times
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The former USA Gymnastics team doctor is now a convicted child sex offender, behind bars for 175 years. You might think that was where the story ended. But for many survivors, his sentencing was just the beginning of a long fight for justice in the sport they love.
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Rebecca Myers, reporter and feature writer for The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you remember the name Larry Nassar? |
| 0:04.5 | Former USA Gymnastics Dr Larry Nassar has been sentenced for sexually abusing young athletes. |
| 0:09.8 | More than 265 victims have come forward since the scandal broke, including Olympic Gold Medalist. |
| 0:16.8 | The former team doctor for USA Gymnastics is now a convicted child's sex offender behind bars for 175 years. |
| 0:26.0 | In this episode we'll be looking at the case and I should warn you it contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. Much of it only came to light |
| 0:36.0 | when footage of the survivors facing Larry NASA in court made global headlines back in |
| 0:42.2 | 2018. |
| 0:43.2 | Another day of emotional heart-breaking accounts of abuse at the hands of disgraced |
| 0:48.2 | former USA Gymnastics Dr Larry Nassar. |
| 0:51.6 | Larry Nassar, I hate you. |
| 0:54.0 | Who was the doctor that USH you sent to keep us healthy? |
| 0:56.7 | The doctor that was our abuser. |
| 1:00.1 | A prolific sex offender was convicted and jailed for life. |
| 1:04.0 | You might think that's where the story ended, |
| 1:07.0 | but for many survivors, that was just the start |
| 1:10.0 | of a long fight for justice in the sport they love. |
| 1:14.0 | We saw this man in a jump suit in court being faced by hundreds of women. |
| 1:20.0 | He was this awful monster, it was so clear-cut, and he went to jail for a very long time, and a lot of people, I think, feel that it's okay to sit back on their laurels and say, well, we dealt with him. |
| 1:29.0 | But actually, this is just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 1:32.0 | You're listening to stories of our times |
| 1:35.0 | from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
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