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Retrograde

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4. Has anyone done a study of the effects of their training
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 11:37 PM
Jul 2021

on the young women who went through their programs? And not just the Olympians, but the ones who were ranked slightly below the cut? I wonder how many young women suffered lasting disabilities because of their regimes.

I always got a creepy vibe from Bela hugging the child-looking gymnasts at the Olympics. I don't think he was a sexual predator like Nasser - at least no one's accused him - but I do think he was a psychological and physical abuser. BTW, the Netflix documentary Athlete A strongly implies that one promising gymnast, Maggie Nichols, was left off the 2016 Olympic team - Marta Karolyii had the final say - because she publicly accused Nasser of sexual abuse.

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