The Global Gymnastics Community Is Finally Facing a Reckoning
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glamour.comChalked Up, the memoir I wrote in 2008 detailing the abusive training culture I experienced, or Athlete A, the documentary I produced in 2020 examining the abusive culture of gymnastics.
Or when, this year, gymnasts and spoke out about their own alleged abuse by their coaches. This is what drives me and keeps me asking: How do we translate our learnings into action?Because if you are told you are garbage every day, you start to believe it.
If you are told you are too fat to be coached when you’ve barely eaten and you’re starving, if you’re told you are weak when you are training eight hours a day on serious injuries, if you are screamed at constantly that it is your fault—if you were better/thinner/faster, I wouldn’t have to scream at you,.
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