A Gym Built on Fear...CNN: (USA Olympic Coach-Abuse)

[Stuart G]

warning: (abuse : ignoring injuries, verbal assault, in many ways horrific.)

By Majlie de Puy Kamp
CNN Investigates:
Thursday, March 29, 2018


https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/03/investigates/john-geddert-abuse/

Larry Nassar molested them. Now gymnasts describe a different kind of abuse by famed Olympic coach John Geddert
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Late one night in the fall of 2012, 17-year-old Brittany Aragon overdosed. She took four Valium pills, lay down in bed and waited.

She was nervous, she said, but the thought of having to go back to the gym and face her coach, John Geddert, terrified her more than taking the pills.

While Larry Nassar was sexually abusing gymnasts in the back room of Twistars Gymnastics in Lansing, Michigan, Geddert – the famed Olympic coach and then-owner of the gym – was subjecting them to a different kind of horror: routinely ignoring their injuries and verbally assaulting them, according to former gymnasts and their families.

Seven gymnasts and their families gave CNN detailed accounts, medical records and electronic communications that they say document years of abuse at the hands of Geddert.

One says he injured her so badly it ended her career at age 17. Another says he failed to get her medical attention after she broke her neck at practice, an injury she said the doctor told her could have left her paralyzed. A third gymnast said Geddert made her train on a broken leg for nearly a month when she was 13. Two teenage gymnasts attempted suicide. All the young women who spoke to CNN said he repeatedly disregarded their injuries.

[Dave Starsky]

1. Good Lord. They need to fucking kill this sport.

It screws up kid's backs, necks, and joints for the rest of their lives, and it apparently is also rife with pedophiles and abusive lunatics in positions of authority.

[Stuart G]

2. Perhaps...you are correct if this is very common.

It appears that this happened only at MSU, and by these two individuals. If this goes beyond these two, and can be found in many other programs, then yes, this needs to be killed.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. "It appears that this happened only at MSU, and by these two individuals."

But it didn't happen "only at MSU." These people worked at different gyms and for different organizations, in a culture upheld and protected by many, many people. Any abuse in an institution ends up becoming institutionalized. The abuse continues because to confront it might mean the end of the institution, so the institution lets it continue while lying about it or ignoring it or kicking the can down the road. This is not a case of one or two bad actors who can be removed and life will go on. This will continue to unfold and it will continue to be ugly.

[Stuart G]

4. If you are correct, then this is the "tip of the iceberg"

Time will tell..If there has been more abuse, in many other locations, then this will open the door for the end of this so called sport. We will see if this is nation wide or just one location.