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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'Chalked Up' Author Jennifer Sey Talks USA Gymnastics
"Up was your personal experience as a gymnast, why was it wrong for you to write your story? And even before the NASA scandal told us the truth of the depth of abuse, at least in that one sport, is this like a club? Is this like the mafia? Is there a code of omerta and you're not allowed to talk about what it's like to be a gymnast? Apparently, I did not know that. You know, I thought it was an open secret, but apparently it was a secret secret and keeping those secrets within the community. This closed off community of elite gymnastics and that broader Olympic movement because I think it takes place in sports outside of gymnastics as well. They're willing to sacrifice children for money and medals. Honestly, you know, the image presented by USA gymnastics since these shiny, happy little pixies bouncing around. That brings in sponsorship dollars. They win Olympic medals and that brings in more. If the general public knew the way that these little girls and young women were treated, starved, forced to train on broken bones and in some instances, sexually assaulted, I don't think the sponsors would come to the table with money. And in fact, we saw most of their sponsors leave after the Larry Nassar case broke. So it was really protecting the adult sacrificing children to protect adults.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Sits Down With Former Elite Gymnast Jennifer Sey
"Say, welcome back to America first. Thanks for having me. Happy to be here. All right, so let's talk a little bit about you first. Because you have this amazing athletic career, but you also have this life in corporate America. So explain to us those two lives, how they melded and how you ended up at the top of one of the most famous companies in the world. Yeah, absolutely. I had an unusual childhood. I was an elite gymnast. As you mentioned, I was I made my first national team at ten years old and was on the national team until I was 18. One, the title of national champion in 1986. I suffered a lot of terrible injuries, a broken femur, femur, too broken ankles. I trained on broken bones. And ultimately, I left the sport despite my successes feeling fairly broken and ashamed. It's a very cruel and abusive coaching culture. And ultimately, 20 years after I left the sport, I continued to suffer from that night. And that's why I wrote the book. It was a memoir and it was really just my personal story, but it was reflective of the broader coaching culture. And I will tell you, it was not well received by the Olympic movement in the gymnastics community at the time. They were not ready for what I had to say, and I was smeared for the first time as a grifter and a liar, but ultimately was redeemed in 20 2018 when Larry Nassar went to prison for life. And for those that don't know, he was the team doctor for Team USA, gymnastics for over 30 years and sexually abused hundreds and hundreds of young athletes. And it was known by the powers that be in the sport, and they brushed it under the rug. They sacrificed children. So ultimately I was redeemed and folks came to my side to say they had agreed with me all along, which was a lie, but you know, I welcome them to the fight. But I started working at Levi's in 1999. I spent most of my professional life there. I was an entry level marketing assistant when I started worked my way up to chief marketing officer and then ultimately brand president. And I loved the company and the culture and the product. I'd worn the product since I was 6 years old. I traveled to Moscow in 1985 for the first ever goodwill games and packed my suitcase with lots of 5 O ones and traded them with Russian athletes. I mean, they were a symbol of freedom the world over.
AP News Radio
At Fisk University, gymnastics makes a giant leap for HBCUs
"Known for a history that includes civil rights activism and music, Nashville's fisk universities made a giant leap for historically black college and university, women's gymnastics, I Norman hall. This university a private school with 1000 students is the first historically black school to take part in an NCAA women gymnastics meet. Coach Karim tarver admits she knew it would be tough to recruit from the ground up. I didn't know how, I mean, I kind of just like, there's no way I'm going to get 15 girls. I knew I could get athletes. I just didn't think I was going to be able to get this many. The squad currently trained in an off campus gym, coach tarves says she hopes fans and the athletes don't expect to knock off power houses competing this week in Las Vegas. I Norman hall
The Breakdown
Sam Bankman-Fried Secretly Handed $27M to a Major Crypto News Site
"Well, holy Friends. I honestly shouldn't have been surprised. When your business ethics compasses twisted enough to do the mental gymnastics to justify plowing billions of customer funds into your failing hedge fund, I guess it was inevitable that more dubious deals were going to be uncovered. Still, I will admit shock at the utter praise of what was revealed on Friday evening. Late Friday afternoon, news broke that crypto news website to block or more specifically its CEO, Michael McCaffrey, had been receiving secret funding from Sam bankman fried since early 2021. To be specific and clear the block CEO Michael McCaffrey received a series of loans to his holding company. McCaffrey claims that the first two loans for a total of $27 million were used to fund day to today operations at the block. McCaffrey used a third loan taken earlier this year for 16 million, in part to purchase personal real estate in The Bahamas. McCaffrey claims that no one else knew about the loans and that the editorial and research teams were not influenced by Sam's funding of the company. McCaffrey resigned on Friday effective immediately with chief revenue officer Bobby Moran, stepping in to helm the company. On Friday, December 9th, McCaffrey tweeted, I have difficult news to share. I'm stepping down as the block CEO. While it's personally painful, it's the right thing for the block and the team. Editor's note, don't talk about your personal pain when you've been involved in deceptive fraud. Anyway, back to McCaffrey's tweets. In early 2021, the block was in a precarious place, and I was evaluating whether to sell, merge or restructure. The only option the materialized was to restructure when I was able to obtain a $12 million loan for my holding company from SPF in February of 2021. Sorry I don't mean to keep doing this, but another editor's note. That wasn't the only option. Deceptively taking money from a crypto billionaire for your crypto journalism site. That was the option that allowed you to do what you wanted. Those are not the same thing. Anyway, back to McCaffrey's tweets. Cologne was to an entity I own and the funds were used to affect the restructuring. In early 2022, there was an additional $15 million loan to strengthen the business's position. I didn't disclose the loan to anyone. Absolutely no one at the block knew about the financial arrangement between my holding company and SPF, including the editorial and the research teams. My rationale undoubtedly poor judgment in hindsight was that the knowledge of the loan might be seen to compromise the objectivity of their coverage of SPF in his related entities. Editors note you think,
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Sticking the Landing
"We're not counting our chickens before they are hatched. We are not we just got to let me go to a gymnastics analogy. I'm gymnastics metaphor. We've got to stick the landing. Right now, like Mary Lou Retton, we are twirling through the air and hoping to stick the landing and that means we're hoping to get the results that we need and silly crazy me, we're hoping to get those results in a timely fashion. We have been told, if you notice the people are trying to beat you into submission, election day, we're kind of Ozzy and Harriet era nonsense is that. Eisenhower's president, election day. We now need several days. We got all these mail in ballots. It's busy and lots of people are voting. And we got big cities and stuff to do and things to crunch through. So it might take the better part of a week. We should think now in terms of election week. Well, guess what? That's a hard no for me. If there are some razor thin, dead heat races, okay, I mean, we've all stayed up to the wee hours to wait for something to come in. Maybe even you wake up the next morning, and it's still not totally done. All right, I understand. I understand. But you start talking to me about well into Thursday, well into Friday well into the weekend. Oh, hell no, if you'll excuse me. And eyes are peeled and the antennae are up for all kinds of nonsense.
The Dan Bongino Show
Kari Lake: I Know I Can Fix Problems in Arizona
"Gosh I just have so much respect for you and what you're doing I am I am personally really stoked about speaking to you I met you one time At an event it was brief There were a lot of people around you Everybody wanted to talk to you And Carrie I think it's because you have that kind of genocide you know You have this you have a gift I mean I don't want to start with excessive flattery and make you uncomfortable but you do you have a gift I don't see in a lot of politicians And in order to just fight back and instinctively answer a question without having to look like you're going through mental gymnastics Is that a product of your career in the media before You don't see it a lot Is that your media training I think first of all I will take the flattery after awesome If somebody throws me a compliment I accept it You got it I think it is And the fact that I don't really want to be a politician it's gross to be honest Yeah I'm just in this because I see problems in Arizona I think I can fix them I know I can fix them especially with we the people behind me And I don't know how to speak anything but the truth I was just with one of my campaign staffers yesterday And we were talking about we were going on a big interview on Fox And she was telling me some things And she was my trying to tell you anything You're just going to go out there and say what's on your heart What the heck am I even thinking trying to tell you what to say I don't do well being coached on what to say I just have to speak from my heart And if that gets me in trouble sometimes so be it I'm here to speak the truth I'm not a good liar But apparently even though I'm not a good liar we're doing well in politics because people are ready for the truth Authenticity and somebody who's going to push back against all that we know is wrong in society and in this world right now
The Officer Tatum Show
FBI Drops Ball on Gymnists Case
"Now, how in the flying flip does our FBI spent an incredible amount of time pursuing January 6th and we all know some of them was some of the CIA I came 68. Let me not say one of these, we know that we had federal agents participating in a part of January 6th. And they can tell you what mothers are going to the city council meetings, they can bolster their investigatory skills going after conservatives, but how in the world did they drop the ball on this scenario where you have gymnasts who have been getting sexually assaulted by this creepy coach and they were told and informed about women who had been molested by him sexually assaulted by him and dozens more women were assaulted by him in over a year after the claims were brought to the FBI. Y'all came muster up enough, staffing to protect young women from a sexual predator manipulating young women in gymnastics, but somehow y'all are still talking about January 6th.
ESPN Daily
"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Required. So listen, we've been talking a lot about the names that I remember, at least, the Sunni leaves of the world, the Olympians that I watched in Tokyo, but one of the biggest stars here that you've been reporting on is actually not an Olympian, not yet, at least. So who is she? What is her deal? Well, if you've been a fan of collegiate gymnastics, and even elite gymnastics in the past 5 years, you will know the name Trinity Thomas from the university of Florida. There it is. Oh my gosh. Oh, look at that. There it is, Kathy. It's a perfect ten for Charlie Thomas. And full disclosure, it's my Alma mater. I have an incredibly big Gators gymnastics fan. So I'm a little biased here, but even if you are not a fan of the Florida Gators, you are probably a Trinity Thomas fan. She is a senior. She, but she was also an elite gymnast. She was a four time member of the national team. She was on a gold medal Pan Am team. And in 2019, Trinity committed to Florida and in that season, she became the only athlete competing in both elite and NCAA gymnastics, so she was she was doing what everything we're talking about minus being an Olympian and the fame, but she was juggling these two very different styles of gymnastics. And she had several ankle injuries last year. She announced shortly before the team.
ESPN Daily
"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"That was amazing. Truly incredible. And Jade Carey, who is our Olympic floor champion for the U.S. team. She's competing for Oregon state. She earns a ten also on bars. Jade Carey with a perfect ten. The tenth across the nation this year. These are four Olympic athletes, some of the most famous gymnasts of most famous athletes in the world. Yes. All competing over a 24 hour period, scoring their first collegiate perfect tens. And the attention that brought to college gymnastics really overnight was like nothing I had ever seen..
ESPN Daily
"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Alyssa, I understand that this year's college gymnastics season has been unprecedented. In many ways, is there a particular moment that demonstrates to you just how unique it's been? So in February 4th, at a UCLA Utah meet. Remember that silver medal winning team for USA in Tokyo. Grace McCallum, one of our four Olympians at the Tokyo Olympics, who is competing for Utah, takes to the bars and very quickly. You can feel something exciting is happening. And it perfectly stop landing. That's a great she sticks her dismount and we learn that she earns her first perfect ten of her collegiate career. Grace McCallum got it perfect ten to start off this competition. And as her score is being shown to the crowd, her Olympic teammate Jordan chiles who competes for UCLA is stepping onto the floor. She walks out with sass of attitude for music is lizzo and Doja Cat normani. At her opening pass is this sky high gorgeous double layout. It's a big tumbling, Sam, double layout to open this routine. Her body is extended. She does two full rotations in a laid out or extended straight leg position. The entire routine is flawless. She sticks every pass. I think she's gonna fit right.
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: The Jury Saw Through DOJ & FBI's Entrapment
"You have people on both sides who really saw what happened with the spygate case the collusion case the failure to really do much of anything about antifa and BLM And yet this focused hyper attention on January 6th and candidly people some people just walked in open doors And it just seems like they're credibility is so bad that I don't know how we go forward as a constitutional republic without a major house cleaning because how do you bring a case now I mean juries just don't trust them This January does excuse me the Michigan case was just a total repudiation of their credibility in court It was stunning Dan if you think now consider first the defense attorneys had both hands tied behind their back to judge who did a very good job nonetheless sided with the government on numerous occasions to prevent the jury from seeing hundreds of communications between the FBI and their informants that would show this entrapment If the government threatened several defense witnesses with extra charges so they ended up pleading the 5th the DoJ had everything going for it in this jury still saw right through this entrapment case because the entire defense argument rested on FBI entrapment and that is what this jury concluded The other thing to remember in Michigan is that the local news about what happened with Larry Nassar the Michigan state gymnastics coach who got away for years of molesting sexually assaulting young girls and women top U.S. Olympic gymnasts and the FBI including the Detroit field office completely dust this case So they already had not just national the FBI national lack of credibility but certainly this was a local issue in the state of Michigan And I wonder how much that contributed to the jury's view Of this corrupt and competent agency
AP News Radio
USA Gymnastics, USOPC reach $380M settlement with victims
"USA USA gymnastics gymnastics and and the the U. U. S. S. Olympic Olympic and and Paralympic Paralympic committee committee will will pay pay three three hundred hundred eighty eighty million million dollars dollars to to the the victims victims of of sexual sexual abuse abuse by by former former USA USA gymnastics gymnastics team team doctor doctor Larry Larry Nassar Nassar a a federal federal bankruptcy bankruptcy court court in in Indianapolis Indianapolis confirmed confirmed of of the the settlement settlement over over ninety ninety percent percent of of the the more more than than five five hundred hundred victims victims had had voted voted in in favor favor of of a a tentative tentative agreement agreement reached reached in in September September additionally additionally non non monetary monetary provisions provisions include include a a dedicated dedicated seat seat for for victims victims of of Nassar Nassar on on the the USA USA gymnastics gymnastics safe safe sport sport committee committee the the athlete athlete health health and and wellness wellness council council and and board board of of directors directors Nassar Nassar who who worked worked at at Michigan Michigan State State University University USA USA gymnastics gymnastics and and the the Michigan Michigan Jim Jim was was sentenced sentenced in in twenty twenty eighteen eighteen to to forty forty to to one one hundred hundred seventy seventy five five years years in in prison prison after after pleading pleading guilty guilty to to sexually sexually assaulting assaulting female female gymnasts gymnasts hi hi Mike Mike Rossio Rossio
Mojo In The Morning
U.S. Gymnasts Say FBI Failed to Protect Them From Sexual Abuse
"Four american gymnast. Simone biles michaela maroney aly rice. Men and maggie nichols sat in front of the senate yesterday. Engaged emotional testimony about the abuse. They suffered at the hands of former usa gymnastics doctor. Larry nassar and their feelings of betrayal by investigators particularly the fbi the fbi. Let them down big time. This is simone biles. I don't want another young gymnast. Olympic athlete or any individual to experience the horror that i and hundreds of others have endured before during and continuing to this day in the week of the larry nassar abuse. She said the scars of this horrific abuse continue and the impact will never be over michaela. Maroni told a story about sitting on her bedroom floor back in twenty fifteen and talking to the fbi over the phone and telling them all of the details of everything that had happened to her and then told the f. b. i. About tokyo the day he gave me a sleeping pill for the plane. Ride to then work on me. Later that night that evening i was naked completely alone with him on top of me molesting me for hours. I began crying at the memory over the phone. And there was just dead silence. I was so shocked at the agents silence and disregard for my trauma. After that minute of silence he asked is that all advocates for the young women. Say as many as one hundred twenty athletes may have been abused by nasser. they says l. erased men nassir found more than one hundred new victims to molest serving innocent children up to a pedophile on a silver platter. All we needed was one adult to do the right thing. I don't know if you guys saw this part of her testimony but she told a story about sitting with an fbi agent and him trying to convince her that everything that had happened. Wasn't that bad.
Up First
Simone Biles: 'I Blame the System That Enabled Larry Nassar's Abuse'
"Before we begin our next segment. We note that we will be discussing sexual abuse the testimony. On capitol hill yesterday was both angry and anguished for usa gymnastics athletes said law enforcement including the fbi ignored them and lied about them when they said they were abused by former team. Doctor and convicted sex offender. Larry nassar simone. Biles was one of the women who testified to be clear. I blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled perpetrated his joining us. Now is marissa witkowski hausky. She's an investigative journalist for usa today. Who began covering the abuse scandal years ago at the indianapolis star. It's been six years since usa gymnastics heard the first allegations. And it's been five years since you and other journalists at the indianapolis star began reporting on this listening to yesterday's testimonies. What stood out to you. What lawmakers heard yesterday was the continued frustration of survivors. Who felt that their allegations against larry nassar had not been taken seriously enough. They had been calling for change in calling for accountability for the failures of usa gymnastics of the us olympic and paralympic committee and of the fbi former olympic gymnast michaela maroney in her testimony directly. Blame the fbi for not acting fast enough to stop by larry nassar. Here's her testimony. What is the point of reporting abuse if our own. Fbi agents are going to take it upon themselves to bury that report in a drawer.
AP News Radio
Biles Tells Congress 'Enough Is Enough' After Gymnast Abuse
"Simone Biles and other gymnasts are calling out the F. B. I. and others over sexual abuse by former USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar enough is enough through tears at a Senate hearing Biles and other gold medallists described a system that failed that from Olympic officials to law enforcement the FBI turned a blind eye to us fellow Olympian McKayla Maroney says the FBI minimize stand disregarded her reported Nassar's abuse well before his crimes became public they allowed a child molester to go free for more than a year FBI director Chris Wray says it's unacceptable these individuals betrayed the core duty that they have of protecting people and says the F. B. I.'s working to make sure it doesn't happen again Sager made Ghani Washington
Plan B Success
"gymnastics" Discussed on Plan B Success
"They're wonderful human beings and their delights. Work with and i was fortunate enough. You know to travel with like peter. Vidmar and tim daggett and mitch. Gaylord crew became olympic gold medal. Winners you know to japan and things and mary the renton and then In my in my you know. Jim in in santa wrong in the next city over in dublin was an ice skating rink and brian tunnel trained in that ice skating ring and so for the eighty eight olympics. His coach wanted him to learn a up on the ice. Because that was the year of the war of the bryans. Brian orser from canada and brian baton from the united states and they have a free skate afterwards so like six months before the olympic games. She brought him into the gym. I started working with them on backseats and to tell you i was very very nervous because i thought oh my gosh i do not wanna drop this guy and brecca's chances to becoming an olympic gold medal winner but it was. It was joy working with him. And so it's just it was just a pleasure to work with these athletes. hold on did you serve. As a coach. I was on the coaching staff from one thousand nine hundred one thousand nine hundred eighty four. And then what did you do with your career after that. Well well i am. I coached all the way until two thousand fourteen. You know and then finally you know kind of retired from the sport. i I i trained both men and women's gymnast over those years and one of the big biggest joys was having a lot of my national and elite athletes. They they all got like full ride scholarships to major universities all over the united states. So that was kinda nice. 'cause it made it worth their while for their parents and they paid their dues all those years they got to go to school for free so it was it was it was great and and one of the things is And where things like that. I talk about in the book Was that The greatest compliment. I ever got us. Coach came to me in a grocery store while i was shopping One of my one of one of my parents of a you know and it wasn't one of my national or aurelien nasties it was one of my beginning competitors parents You know said that You know that everything that i taught. Her daughter and gymnastics was the reason that she was so successful in college. And she was saying that she was that ucla and she was the president of her sorority and she had a double major choose getting straight as and she was having a time of her. Life was all the things that i taught her in gymnastics. I thought wow. I don't remember all that on the curriculum you know. And then she says yes. She learned about goal setting and concept resolution and time management. And all these things that you need in a life you know and it kinda hit me like well. my gosh..
Plan B Success
"gymnastics" Discussed on Plan B Success
"Well and he comes back in first thing. He says is union operation immediately. I said well what would you talking about. He goes okay. Come over here and he puts the x rays up in the machine. You know and. I'm a physical education major so i've taken anatomy. I know what a normal spinal vertebrae call. looks like. The vertebrae and initial injury was compression. Factory where you know disintegrated the discs between the vertebrae and cracked vertebrae and half it. Also sub lux. And so i. I'm looking at this x. Ray and the vertebrae lineup like this way off. The vertebrae still cracked in half and now. He's a big bone. Spur going out the front of one of my verb as where the body was trying to heal itself. And he's looked at me and he says do not much millimeter to is. And i said yeah and he says well. That's what it's hanging on by. He said someone could come up slap on the back to say. Hey gary how you doing that thing could slip off. Cut your core. Did you either gonna die. Or you're going to be a quadriplegic for the rest of your life. So he says you need an operation immediately. So i had to go in and get an operation where they took a bone chip out of my hip infused by sixth and seventh vertebrae together. I had to wear neck. Brace for six months. Let it grow together and during that time while i was you know going through all that I got the feeling in my arms back. And so i started re happy little by little little by little i got back into the sports gymnastics and then when the bone completely teas together and i was cleared. I started competing again little at a time. And by nineteen. Seventy four. Seventy five season. I was back full all the way back doing all six events again and and had the best had the best year of my life and seventy seventy four. Seventy four seventy five. That's pretty amusing area. That's actually quite a fast on around a couple of years but you know from being a really active athlete to kind of going through the accident. What was the what was what was the dark period. Or what was some of those You know those dark times that you faced in. How did you tackle with that. Yeah that's great question The immediately you know when when he gave me the news I remember telling you nurses not to let anybody into see me for a whole day. That i just wanted to deal with all of the emotions and and the inner mind shatter that was going through. You know you know my life's over you know. Is anybody ever gonna love me. What are my parents can. Can i finish school. i'll never be able to take care of myself on. That will be able to drive a car. You know i i. Don't you know if. I was lucky enough to meet somebody. I would be able to hold my baby in my arms. All these kind of things were going crazy and so anyway i I took a whole day. You know being an athlete. I guess you know then. There's no timetable. This it could have been a week a month a year. You know two your whatever it is to take but you want to deal with those emotions. So that's what i immediately did. And then the whole thing is you know we never do anything in life alone. And i had this amazing support..
AP News Radio
USA Gymnastics Eyes $425 Million Settlement With Abuse Survivors
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting USA gymnastics proposes a four hundred twenty five million dollar settlement with survivors of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal nearly three years after USA gymnastics filed for bankruptcy in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal the organization and the survivors committee representing hundreds of women have filed a joint four hundred twenty five million dollars settlement proposal in U. S. bankruptcy court Nassar who worked as a sports doctor for USA gymnastics and Michigan State University is in prison in Michigan for sexual assault and possession of child **** the proposal needs to be approved by the survivors and any other creditors votes must be in by November eighth and written objections are due by November nineteenth a confirmation hearing is scheduled for early December hi Mike Rossi
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Makes the US Olympic Committee Different to the Chinese One?
"Makes united states olympic committee different than our than the chinese. We don't have government. Involvement is a private enterprise the tricalm's pumping hundreds of millions of dollars. We don't actually know the number who the billions of dollars so gouging will probably be sent off to a concentration camps. I'm not kidding Were this works. They'll found they'll find another secular. Solis idiot go run their sports. The state the chinese communist party sends out scouts to hunt for tens of thousands of children for full-time training. More than two thousand government runs sports schools. I want you to think about that. There are two thousand. Government runs sports schools in china thousand tasks for selection sees kids. You've given challenges. Such as press-ups endurance. Running and bench oppresses that prioritize. Strength over specific skills. Many chinese parents used to send their kids to sport. Schools lured by government subsidies and promising looking careers for their children. It doesn't matter if the sports have mass appeal or if they're youngsters have interest if they are deemed worthy. It is their duty to perform for the sake of their nation. You see some of these pictures. It is evil. Children from rural areas or from families. Were not so good economically. They adapt well to the hardships at the lee. Josh wang gymnastics will. There is little room for error. They bowed to their coaches and apology. If they're not up to scratch and a bad performance is punished with extra weight. Training at the end of the deck
The Mason Minute
Gymnastics (MM #3790)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. Be summer olympics are about ready to wrap up for another. I would normally say for years but in this case, three years, but what does always fascinated me about the Olympics is the sports that nobody seems to care about the other three or four years. They only care about during the Olympics gymnastics in particular. I realized gymnast, both male and female have all sorts of wage and ships throughout the years, in between the Olympics, but the obsession with Olympic gymnastics, amazes me. And I wonder why it doesn't carry out to the years in between. I can go back to my childhood, with Cathy Rigby and then you'll korbut and Nadia Comaneci, and Kerri strug and now Simone biles, all the Queen's, The Darlings of the Olympics, but usually outside of those years, you don't hear much about them. You don't hear about the Olympic athletes. Begin those other three years or almost four years. Now I'm sure that may change this time around cuz Simone biles isn't sure. She's coming back or not but there will be another Olympic champion to think about but the gymnasts we think about him once every four years. And I wonder why that is dead.
The Mason Minute
Gymnastics (MM #3790)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. Be summer olympics are about ready to wrap up for another. I would normally say for years but in this case, three years, but what does always fascinated me about the Olympics is the sports that nobody seems to care about the other three or four years. They only care about during the Olympics gymnastics in particular. I realized gymnast, both male and female have all sorts of wage and ships throughout the years, in between the Olympics, but the obsession with Olympic gymnastics, amazes me. And I wonder why it doesn't carry out to the years in between. I can go back to my childhood, with Cathy Rigby and then you'll korbut and Nadia Comaneci, and Kerri strug and now Simone biles, all the Queen's, The Darlings of the Olympics, but usually outside of those years, you don't hear much about them. You don't hear about the Olympic athletes. Begin those other three years or almost four years. Now I'm sure that may change this time around cuz Simone biles isn't sure. She's coming back or not but there will be another Olympic champion to think about but the gymnasts we think about him once every four years. And I wonder why that is dead.
The Audio Long Read
"gymnastics" Discussed on The Audio Long Read
"The initial encounter followed by the arduous journey to greatness which culminates in a final glorious contest accompanying their protagonists on her journey as a group of support friends some mean girl rivals and inevitably a boy over the next two years my life adhere to the sporting side of that script but not the social one. Today i barely remember the people. I met the coaches and other athletes. What i remember is how felt to win. The flashing blood world felt far less compelling than the prospect of sporting greatness. the other gymnasts. I competed with were nice. White girls from middle class families that did not resemble my own. They were friendly but we were not friends. I absorbed like many immigrant. Children at latent awareness of my difference and thus a thirst to gain what others did not appear to need to fight for acceptance. I was the proverbial contestant in the reality television show who is not here to make friends. I was here to win and there was never a boy. Boys did not magically rearrange the world to make it look more beautiful and more true boys did not get you written about and photographed for the local paper metals. Did i was in a battle against time. My body was fast on. Its way to being old. I was in a battle against myself. Each gold medal was a challenge issued by myself to keep up this streak to an outside observer. I was a little girl. In a sparkly leotard. Throwing back and forth button reality life in rhythmic gymnastics felt less like asleep over friendly teen drama than one of those boiled stories about a steely renegade on a single minded quest. Usually a man hardened by middle age gripped by an obsession so pure and powerful that it alienates everyone around him. At nine years old. I was that man my peak though. I didn't know then came at the two thousand and three national championships which brought together athletes from old gymnastics disciplines for the most important competition of the season on the first day. The gigantic oakland rain was taming with activity. Artistic gymnastics and trampoline. Competitions were held simultaneously and a of the volt or thundering rush of applause. Would bleed over. And the already humming remix gymnastics zone felt like attending a mildly also controlled party full of inordinately flexible people. And they're on the internet matt. I soared my scores. Broke national records. I came i in every equipment category in my age group during the prizegiving ceremony. A disembodied voice from a microphone echoed round the arena announcing the results for my age group to me it was something like the voice of god i climbed onto the top podium trembling with glee then came icing on the cake. I was crowned new zealand's. Two thousand and three gymnast of the year. My head was dizzy with excitement. I lost myself in the applause of the crowd. I knew even then that tomorrow the cycle would begin again the hard knuckle training the battle against the ravages of time the fear that any moment my winning streak might end but those were.
Masters Podcast Club
"gymnastics" Discussed on Masters Podcast Club
"Maybe in a diving. I'm not a big fan of going headfirst into thing. So i chose gymnastics so i fell in love with it found a great coach who wasn't olympian. Who fueled that passion. And i had a father who supported me. He a great example to me of hard work and never complaining and that combination. Along with the chance to train with other like-minded athletes really paved the way for me to have the kind of success that they did. You say you're not a big fan of headfirst into things that's never happened before. Oh no. I've i've had some crashes in the gym i don't i try to avoid them at all costs so we learned from our failures. Learn from our mistakes. That's a message that i shared for example with your audience. Go through these mistakes sometimes. That's okay so long to learn from them. So what what was your life like back then. At what age were you starting to have this type of routine of of discipline and and how many hours a week was this well. Here's what did that do to your high school experience and you know it's interesting. I started off going just one day a week. It was just kind of exposure to the sport. So i show you what. I was. Eleven and a half. I showed up on saturdays and learned a few things got sore. You know for couple of days afterwards because they only worked out on saturdays and then all of a sudden i realized. Hey if i do a little bit of work and you know before the saturday workout stronger and all of a sudden. I had workouts on wednesdays and fridays and saturdays so three days a week after that after a few months going three days a week my coach at the time also had a job working for a bank so during the day he had to work cited workout on wednesday nights friday nights and saturday during the day longer..
Today in Focus
Biles Returns to Olympic Competition, Wins Bronze on Beam
"I'm no scenic today. Focus how simone. Biles changed gymnastics both on and off the mat. Tamani the news of simone biles withdraw from those events last week completely stunned the world of sport and beyond you were there in the arena. Watching her compete. What was your first reaction. It was quite an unprecedented in gymnastics. The olympics is the bulan endo. It's the big event that gymnastics floor every four years and so for bios to kind of withdraw from the team final immediately. it was quite it was just. It was shocking. It initially was in sutton if it was a physical issue and then soon after that a commentator from from nbc suggested that it was mental. And you know in the mid of the meet the usa gymnastics released a statement saying that she had a medical condition. And so there's so much going on your. You're trying to figure out what's happening with simone. You're watching the team final. Which is dead on voting and the three other gymnasts. Some of them went expecting to compete in some events and suddenly they had to start doing events they hadn't even wound up for it was in the second rotation so uneven bars. The gymnast jordan shall to who is
Get Up!
Simone Biles Wins Bronze on Beam
"Simone biles and a triumphant return to the olympics. This morning files one bronze-medal on the balance beam in her first competition since she withdrew from the women's team final last week citing concerns for dental and physical safety byles displayed a slightly altered and less difficult routine than the one she performed during qualifying but she was solid and finished third. I'm pretty happy. I wasn't expecting to medal. I came out here in. Just try to do a good beam set to bring the topic of mental health. I think it should be talked about a lot more especially with athletes. Because i know some of us are going through the same things and we're always told to push through it but we're all a little bit older now. We could kind of speak for ourselves but at the end of the day we're not just entertainment where humans and their things going on behind the scenes that were also trying to juggle with as well on top of sports. Talk for simone biles. It's her seventh career olympic medal. That tie shannon miller for the most by an american in gymnastics is just the latest a long list of career accomplishment. She's the first woman to win five all around world championship. Titles again simone. Biles back on the beam today and taking the
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"Tonight mental gymnastics a former. Olympic gymnasts tells us what's at stake for someone like simone biles when competing becomes scary and says anyone critical of her decision to withdraw and stick it. No shirt no shot no service. San francisco bar owner says his decision to not serve unvaccinated. Customers indoors is first and foremost about protecting his staff called forth to prevent fourth with kovic spreading fast again in alberta. The province is hurtling toward fourth. Wait unless vaccine holdout. Step up to get their shots. These are the songs that never end. A norwegian company is asking the music world which recordings should go in a new doomsday music. Vault scoop i get ask questions later. A competitor in a biannual cannonball run from one coast to the other describes the appealing and appalling aspects of spending ten days on scooter and screaming themselves horse. Two teams of scientists have burr under their saddles because they disagree on whether horses can recognize themselves in mirrors. As it happens the wednesday edition. Radio that wonders. If a gift horse looks itself in the mouth she was supposed to come home. A two time olympic champion. Instead simone biles become a champion for athletes mental health. The american gymnast is widely considered the greatest of all time in her sport. But just one event into this week's team competition in tokyo. She announced she'd be taking a time out a now. Ms biles has confirmed. She won't be competing in tomorrow's individual all around competition either. Her decision shocked gymnastics world. But it's a decision. A lot of the sports stars could relate to including former british olympic. Gymnast cloudy fraga penny. We reached ms fraga. Penny in brecon beacons wales. How do you. You've actually competed again. Simone biles what does it take for an athlete at that top level to say i'm out She's just school amazing personality. Amazing strength And i think it shocked to not people To be on this competing with her being an athlete myself you you have to take on so much. And she's got way more pressure than all of us have put together because a lotta people expect her to get gold medals and for it to be easy but it just proves that she is human and it's really hard to hi. I'm telling you right. And i wanna talk also about the real and dangerous impact of what those nerves can mean when it comes to competing and performing but let me take that moment where she did that volt where she kind of wobbled on the landing. Can you walk us through what you saw when you watch that to me. I just thought like she got kind of lost in the air I didn't think she was as comfortable going in what she normally is to me. What she met her doing that. It was a massive shock. But then i was like she could hurt herself. It is scary for your body. And also it's really hard on your head wise because then you head filled all confused on where you being on the twisting turns everything can it can be really really hard to get out place right. Let's talk a little bit more about that. Because she withdrew after that that vault and she later deceit said she was having a bit of the twisties. I love for you to explain a little bit what that means and just how dangerous it can be because as you say if you pull out of a move You know a mistake can cost you more than just points. Yeah so for her. Saying about the twisties is when as you get older you start to learn more and more twists. You go from half twist you can go to forest quadruple and you sometimes get the catch when it comes to twist and you get confused now. She did it when she had her arm up and she was in the middle of a competition so dangerous. Because if you pull out halfway through and you know you could be in any direction. And you don't know with us gymnast. We know is that to go in where about salons. Were very good. At everything and oversee simone is even better all of that so for her to stop halfway through it messed everything up including obviously it was hard for her mental health as well and she says okay after that because it takes on the mind and body. You've had some pretty dramatic experiences with this yourself. Can you tell us a little bit about so. I was going for one of my olympic trials. i get one re successfully the week before and then we had another one and during the weeks i was feeling very stress I was doing quite well. But then when i go onto the flow. I just felt really tired. And drains Going into my last tomboy and it was quite slow and trade. So i said to myself i'll just do a single missile but then when i was halfway through the single film so i runs. Meet went for another summer so which was crazy. I landed on my head in that. And i passed out on the floor for a few seconds and then next thing. I know i'm on a stretcher to be rushed to the hospital And then the. I wasn't allowed to like move because they have been paralyzed So that was really scary. And then luckily i just got really bad concussion but taking me five months to ropley come back and be like at my good south head wise and even in those five months. It took me a while. Because i'd be like i'm fine. I went to go into my last. Try all the week before I started getting really dizzy before my tumbles. And i couldn't push anymore because he's getting dangerous and not when i said to myself. Okay i'll stop so for simone to realize that straight away and just say look hung and i'm just gonna stop really if my house to her. She's just such an inspiration. Yeah i mean that that moment of second guessing yourself or making a mistake or a decision can be career ending or even life ending Soon did talk to reporters about her decision. Let's play a little bit of that. Today has been really chestful. We had to work out this morning. It went okay and then just at five and a half hour. Wait or something. I was just like shaking. Could barely nap. I've just never felt like this going into a competition before. And i tried to go out and have fun and warm in the back a little bit better but then once i came out here i was like no mental is not there so i just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself. How significant is it to hear. Someone like simone biles who you know is described as the goat. Greatest of all time has all of these olympic achievements. There's nothing she can't do and for her to step back and say no. I have to prioritize my mental health. How significant is it to hear that on this stage. Gosh it's just like you. You know of athletes turn around Gymnasts that will say no. I'm just gonna go for it but for her. She's not selfish person and in her interview. She said these girls that she trained with has worked so hard. I wanna close them a medal. And i her just step. Aside is amazing. Because i reckon should feel quite sad that she wasn't a part of and she didn't she didn't do the competition with them and have the atmosphere and it's just simone not i think she's inspired a lot people and she's also opened.
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"Simone biles when competing becomes scary says anyone critical of her decision to withdraw can stick it. No shirt no shot. No service san francisco bar. Owner says his decision to not serve unvaccinated customers. Indoors is first and foremost about protecting his staff called forth to prevent a fourth with kovic spreading fast again in alberta..
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"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Your business will transform from a workplace into a work of art. You cagey our purpose. Is people so eliza. I know that the relationship that's unisa has with her. Father was forged in competition out of a love of competition. Actually this love of being the best but then something occurred. That threatened to change everything. Tell us what happened. Think about how many hours you spend in jim in the gym gymnastics right and as someone who's not yet sixteen you have to have a parent. Which was john at the time. Drive you to and from and her. Jim was about thirty to forty minutes from her home and so every day for years and years and years. There's that thirty to forty minutes twice a day that they spend together in the car bonding and talking and crying and you know pushing her and all the things that happen in those car rides that we all have with our parents to and from sporting events and in twenty nine hundred nine two days before she was to leave her first senior national championships. Her dad was helping a friend cut a tree branch and he fell from a ladder and among many injuries he severed. His spinal cord was paralyzed from the chest down and she gets this phone call while she's at the gym she. They all rushed to the hospital and certainly she thought about not going to this meat and in the hospital. John says he told her. That's not an option you know. This is my dream as much as it is yours and my dream is to see you see your dreams through the minneapolis. Va maybe four thousand miles from germany..
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"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Yeah thanks for having me. It's been a lot of late nights and yeah there's been some surprise. Already in women's gymnastics the americans elissa. Look they were going into this as the juggernaut but then what happened. Well i think part of it is that we are so used to the quote unquote dominance of the. Us team. That when they look human we freak out and so saturday night will saturday night For those here in the us super late at night Was the qualification meat. And that meat is used for a couple of things. It's used to qualify the teams into tuesday's team finals. So the top eight teams make the team final and also used to qualify the gymnast into individual events the all around and the apparatus finals and they've finished about a little over a point behind the russian olympic committee. The russian team has had sanctions placed upon it so there is no russian team competing but the athletes from russia compete under the flag as the russian olympic committee and the russian team was consistent. They were solid and the us was not simone. Biles made you know..
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"gymnastics" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Saronic we just watched the. Us women's gymnastics team struggle. More than we're used to in its first call event in tokyo. And so now right under the microscope right alongside. Simone biles is her teammate. Suny lee a young gymnasts that you spent a lot of time with for a profile..
The Journal.
"gymnastics" Discussed on The Journal.
"And the personal hurt that she felt you know. It's not easy coming back to the score coming back to the organization that has failed to you. One point she said. Did you guys really not like us that much that you couldn't just do your job. Which was really still heartbreaking to hear to this day. She made clear how angry she was. She made clear how hurt she was. He made clear that she didn't understand what had happened. It's hard coming here for an organization. Having them failed so many times and we we had one gold. We've done everything that they asked us for. Even when we didn't want to and they couldn't do one damn job you had one job you literally had one job any who didn't protect and it was an extremely detailed lengthy personal and direct answer that also attacked the organization who would hours later judge her and score her and decide whether she was going to be the national champion again. Biles won the competition. It was her sixth national championship. When asked biles about that moment she said that she often processes emotions like that on her own or in therapy but sometimes in her spark goes off and it just kind of comes tumbling out and that certainly seemed to be what happened. It clearly is still a significant frustration to simone biles that she is still having to deal with. Usa gymnastics as she puts it that they are still the governing body that in order to compete for a national title she goes to a usa gymnastics event that usa gymnastics is able to post videos of her performing extraordinary feats on twitter and get some of the adulation. That is is really aimed at her. At times. she has tweeted angrily back at them last year. While byles was in route to a national team camp she pushed for an independent investigation in a series of tweets saying in part quote. Don't they also want to know how everything was allowed to happen. Who let it happen so it never happens again then about a month later. Usa gymnastics wished files a happy birthday on twitter. They wrote quote. We know you will only continue to amaze us and make history files replied with quote. How about you amaze me and do the right thing have an independent investigation. Usa gymnastics now under new leadership. Says it's fully cooperated with every investigation. It also says that there are concerns that if it pays for an independent investigation it won't be seen as truly independent. Usa gymnastics says. Simone biles is a cherished member that it is a different organization. Since a new board was seeded twenty eighteen. The new president chief executive joined the organization in two thousand nineteen and that it has new priorities and new bylaws and new structures in place in order to rebuild trust and some of that culture shift can be detected in past stories that we've written really young who's the president and ceo of usa. Gymnastics has said that the organization recognizes. How deeply has broken the trust of the athletes and its community that it's working hard to bring that trust back and of course in saying that they will keep working toward that goal. It's a reminder that usa gymnastics envisages itself in the long term still being the national governing body of the sport in the united states in late march of last year the olympics were officially postponed for a full year because of the pandemic. This was just weeks after that. Twitter exchange between usa gymnastics and byles. One of the things she said in an interview with me and with others is that she didn't know if she could continue for another year of training in part because she didn't want to continue of another year of dealing with usa gymnastics and she said to her coach. Her coach is said to be that. She doesn't want to be doing this for them. And she doesn't want to be representing them and her coach said you're not representing them. You're representing yourself. You're representing your country. But she also has come to realize for herself. She says that by competing she is able to maintain a platform to make known what she wants to make known about how she feels. They treated her and the questions that she still has about why she was treated this way. So byles continued training. And she's now in tokyo. Officially a member of usa gymnastics where she has a chance to become the first woman. Nineteen sixty eight to repeat as the gold medalist in the individual all around competition. I mean it's it's fascinating because simone biles has become such a star this. She's drawing so much. More attention to gymnastics and also to usa gymnastics which i'm sure usa gymnastics organization must love and appreciate because it. It brings attention to the sport but at the same time. Her continued participation. Also means there's continued attention on the larry nassar abuse story which is still not yet totally resolved. It's very clear that when simone biles speaks about usa gymnastics and speaks about. Larry nassar people are listening. And it's hard to imagine that the attention would remain as great as it has on a matter that is still unresolved and it's hard to imagine that the attention on this issue would be as great as it is. Were she not still an active member of.
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"gymnastics" Discussed on The Journal.
"In two thousand eighteen more than one hundred athletes spoke publicly about being sexually abused by former usa gymnastics team. Dr larry nassar that group included superstar. Gymnast simone biles byles. Who was twenty years old at the time posted on her twitter account that she had been assaulted by nasser under the guise medical treatment. Our colleague louise radnofsky covers gymnastics. She said that this had happened wall. She'd been training as part of the us national team. And she included usa gymnastics for sports governing body among those who should bear blame and she said very strongly that this behavior is completely unacceptable disgusting abusive and so she wrote in her post. I will not should not carry the guilt. The belongs larry nassar usa g and others now. The world's attention is turned to. Tokyo is the first olympics. Since the nassar scandal broke and simone biles finds herself in a unique position. She's the last self identified nassar survivor remaining on team usa. When i spoke to smiles recently she made clear that from her perspective continuing to compete and put herself out. There meant that a spotlight would remain on the scandal that it couldn't be swept under the rug. And perhaps that this part of that some of the answers that she and the other gymnasts still want want so wrong might eventually come to this olympics. Simone biles won't just be usa gymnastics best. Hope she'll also be it's loudest critic welcome to the journal our show about money business and power. I'm ryan is friday. July twenty third.