Athlete A

7/6/2020

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/2tJNodcM1ws If you've watched or listened to enough of my work, you'll know that I have a love of sports like gymnastics, ice skating, and cheering. The gymnastics world was rocked a few years ago when news broke of a sexual abuse scandal within the USA Gymnastics organisation. The Netflix documentary _Athlete A_ takes a look at the scandal and follows the victims and reporters through their process of exposing it. While it focuses mainly on the sexual abuse perpetrated by team doctor Larry Nassar, it also touches on the general toxic culture of USA Gymnastics, and the brutal training regimes put on gymnasts worldwide. This is a very frank look at what went on and looking at some of the training videos that Nassar made

10/7/2022

I missed the news stories regarding this when it came out so much of this was unknown to me. Truly wild how much damage one individual can do. Props to the women in this film for creating full lives even given that history, and for being brave enough to come forward to bring this guy to justice.