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“How About You Amaze Me and Do the Right Thing… Have an Independent Investigation”: March Update on MSU, the USOPC, & USAG
“How about you amaze me and do the right thing… have an independent investigation.” (Simone Biles in response to a tweet by USA Gymnastics wishing her a happy birthday– essentially in less than fifteen words also restoring my faith in the world again). Chavez, Nicole. 2020. “Simone Biles Claps Back at USA Gymnastics After They…
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“It was more of the same”: November Update on MSU, the USOC, and USAG
“The only way you’re going to change this culture of abuse is to start putting behind bars the people who enabled and covered up that abuse.” –Robert Allard, an attorney who has represented a number of sexual abuse victims in several Olympic sports. Reid, Scott M. 2019. “Justice Department, IRS Investigating USOPC, USA Gymnastics, USA…
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Simone Biles (Continues to be) The Hero We Don’t Deserve: August Update on MSU, The USOC, & USAG
“Larry Nassar … was far from a lone wolf… He was enabled by others and if they lied about it and if they obstructed the investigation, if they destroyed documents then they should be held accountable.” Fitzpatrick, Sarah, Tom Costello, and Adiel Kaplan. 2019. “Congress: U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI Failed to Protect Athletes from Larry…
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“It’s the ones who covered it up that made it worse”: April 2019 Update on MSU, the USOC, and USAG
“We demonize the Nassars & the Sanduskys and they’ve done horrible things, but it’s the ones who covered it up that made it worse & created more victims.” At the Heart of Gold Documentary If you need a recap, check out my previous blog. Whelp, bad news if you opened this link thinking: “It’s been…
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Post-Nassar Fallout Continues: October Updates on MSU and USAG.
This week the United States women and men compete at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar. These athletes are competing amid new controversy and unrest (what a surprise, oh wait, no this is the new norm) surrounding the leadership at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University. Here we go: Larry Nassar recorded himself…
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Leadership at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics has failed to change the culture that Enabled Larry Nassar.
While Larry Nassar was sentenced to life in prison this February, the story of his abuse–most importantly how he got away with it for SO LONG–continues to unfold. To recap, Nassar’s molestation of over 300 women over the course of 20+ years in multiple institutions is one of the largest abuse cases in the history…
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Larry Nassar Sexual Abuse Part 5: MSU’s System of Enabling
To recap, please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. So far, I’ve really given Michigan State University a pass and that ends today. Most of the known facts of the Larry Nassar crimes and cover-up came from USA Gymnastics and former USAG elite athletes. Sure, MSU was mentioned because Nassar was…
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