Maggie Nichols reveals she's 'Athlete A'
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2018
- A world champion and former Olympic hopeful identifies herself as the first gymnast to report Larry Nassar's abuse to USA Gymnastics.
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I’m so mad she didn’t make the team because she spoke out. Watching the documentary showed us that USGA at the time cared more about winning medals then protecting the athletes
Jennifer Graham it's easy for me to relate this to the Penn State sex abuse scandal at the hands of Jerry Sandusky. The main perpetrators got arrested and sent to prison but it wasn't the end of the story. Everyone that knew about it turned a blind eye and failed to alert law enforcement went down like Domino's.
I hate that Maggie didn't get her dream because the people at USAG covered up for a powerful man to save his reputation. Same for all the others who were failed because of their enabling.
At first I thought it was because of her knee so she didn’t do well but after watching the documentary I was mad that they stripped her dream away from her because she was trying to speak up and do what’s right.
Yes I am sad about that but after all the abuse I believe bringing justice to Nassar was ultimately more important. The Olympic dream is not what America thought it was and the gymnastics world was waiting on a different kind of hero - somebody like Maggie. Thank you Maggie!
@@EmDKee agreed
@@EmDKee I'm glad she had great success in college
@@EmDKee Yes, hats off to Maggie and all the others for coming forward.I know that wan't easy.
Watching athlete A make me feel devastated for Maggie. She spoke out on her assault, and she was denied her Olympic dream. Just unconscionable for USAG and USOC to strip her dream away from her.
worms for brains: the coach did not report the sexual abuse to LAW ENFORCEMENT like she should have, not just to USAG. and maggie 100% did not make the team because she reported Nassar, while Steve Penny was lying about an FBI investigation. she was one of the best gymnasts in the world.
I don't think she would've made the team even if she/her coach didn't report Nassar. She was injured and didn't have the same difficulty she had in 2015. Essentially Laurie 'took her spot' and 2016 Laurie was a lot better than 2016 Maggie. It's unfortunate she got injured when she did, and I'd definitely believe it if the Karolys purposely pushed her to the point of injury since I *believe* she got injured at the ranch. But after she was injured there really wasn't a path for her, which sucks, but I don't think she would've added anything to the 2016 team had she been chosen.
Bethany Mclean but her mom said that there were no cameras for the nichols family like usual and they weren’t reserved seats like they usually were... and they didn’t know how her or laurie were going to perform. so i think they weren’t letting her on the team because of her coming forward
@@johnswank3119 oh I definitely think they knew who was going to be on that team. At this point they had already had nationals and these girls were going to the ranch once a month, so to say that they didn't know how these girls were going to perform is a little naive. I just think that Marta never liked Maggie. In the trials broadcast, Tim said that a few years ago when Maggie was first coming on the scene Marta called her "exceptionally average". Also she didn't make national team til 2015 which is a little weird.
She won GOLD for the young girls coming up in the sport! All this assumption and I believe crap needs to stop! She still could’ve been part of the team even just for a dependable score!
It made me so mad find out that that was the real reason she didn’t make the team. I always thought it was because she Was injured. I’m disgusted that they put winning in medals before protecting their athletes
An unprotected camp, he took advantage of the system down there. Praise to Maggie for not staying silent.
Maggie Nichols is a champion both on and off the gymnastics floor.
Netflix brought me here
Black Lyfe lmaooo same
sameeee
Is there a gymnastics doc on Netflix I’m not aware about?
@@veronikas.8831 Netflix just premiered (June 24th), "Athlete A", which showcases the work of IndyStar journalists as they unearthed the USA gymnastics scandal surrounding Larry Nassar, MSU, USAG & USOC and the handling of the many cover-ups regarding abuse of gymnastic athletes over the years.
Dani i just watched! Find it right after I asked you about it, it was a good doc eh?
There NEEDS to be a huge Cheer for the Coach that actually reported this as well!
I totally agree
The coach had a responsibility and duty of care to not only report it to the gymnastics organisation but to the POLICE. The coach failed to disclose this info with the proper authorities, and from where I’m from, that means they can face jail time.
@@HayleyMarie814 exactly. The coach disobeyed the law by knowing about abuse and not reporting it to actual authorities. She should be in jail.
They really should've gone to law enforcement though.
@@HayleyMarie814 you're right. I work in a similar field and it's been drilled into me that I am REQUIRED to make two separate reports: to the organization and then directly to the police. It is not acceptable for me to only report the problem through the organization. Yes, good on the coach for reporting, but she skipped an important step.
Maggie was blackballed, shame on USAG!!
Good on her coach for reporting this.
Problem is the coach should have reported it to the police too, she didn’t. USAG didn’t report it to the police either, they sat on the info. Watch the documentary Athlete A on Netflix and you’ll see what a mess up it all was.
you're praising that coach? delusional. who do you think found nassar in the first place?
She was railroaded and robbed of her trip to the 2016 Olympics.
Although I agree 100% that there was politics involved in the decision to leave her off the team, the USA gymnasts are very deep and there were other athletes that were left off that would have probably contributed to a victory for the United States. The USA is so good that you could pick names out of a hat and they would still probably win the title.
Battle Hymn of the Empath everything you said is completely correct. That being said, it is why it was so easy for her to be robbed of the spot she earned. She was consistently improving, she ranked in the top, her talents and abilities never wavered. She spoke up about sexual assault and was silenced/retaliated against for it
@@ei7388 probably. I think Marta and bela karolyi are sadistic and a product of an autocratic and sadistic regime where sadism made you successful. You can even read it in their facial expressions. Marta is always making awkward and over the top faces. This is a hallmark of a narcissistic and emotionally abusive personality. And yes, if they would have left her off based on her speaking out against a flawed system, it would gave been easy to conceal because of the depth of the us team, where nobody except simone biles was a shoe in. Leaving her off the team would be tantamount to leaving Usain bolt at home. It kind of sucks that gymnastics is not as objective as track and field. The subjective nature of the sport created a prime context for gas lighting abuse because they could get away with mocking an athlete's body or skills without her seeing the psychological breakdown that was going on. Had this been swimming or track, that would not have been possible, as an athletes skills speak for themselves and are not up for subjective scrutiny.
@@ei7388 I mean top 10 yeah but she was no where near top 3 on any event nor was she top 3 in the AA. She could’ve at best been third alternate but even that the alternates that were chosen had better potential than she did. It is a known fact that the top 2 AA gymnast would compete AA at the olympics and we all know that marta would never not let the reigning AA champion not compete for an AA spot. Ragan could’ve contended for a beam medal, mykayla had potentials for floor and vault medal and Ashton on bars. These three alternates were literally guaranteed to win a medal on these events had they competed but based on the level Maggie was at in 2016 post injury, she wasn’t a guarantee for any medals on any event. Had she been in her prime in 2015, she might have gotten laurie’s spot but she wasn’t at the same level. You want to know who’s robbed? Laurie, for not being able to compete in the AA despite being top 3 consistently all year round
Just came back from the Netflix trailer “Athlete A”
It’s so sickening that people that I look up to has through the same thing as I did, we are sister survivors 💙
im so happy this was reported by maggies coach
I hate that this powerful man did not GO TO JAIL
SEXUAL ABUSE IS A CRIME and maggie should have gotten her JUSTICE
Larry Nasser did go to jail. He will be there for the rest of his life.
I came from the documentary, and it's very obvious she was absolutely robbed of Rio by USAG. Of course the girls that went were all amazing and performed amazingly, and their achievements shouldn't be discounted, but Maggie really deserved to be at the Olympics. She was blacklisted, and lost her dream because of a monster and trying to speak out.
How utterly horrible and shameful! Everyone connected to this act and coverup need to go under the prison! 😡🤬
I couldn't agree more. I had no idea that Team USA and 300 more young women had to go though this. I remember people judging Simone Biles for pulling out in the Olympics and thinking no one knows what she went though. Horrible!!!
I am so proud of these girls!!
As a parent you wouldn't call the police yourself when you found out this happened??
I don't understand why 5 weeks went by and the parents did not think to reach out to the police?
Nassar was doing the abuse IN FRONT OF THE PARENTS! He would gain their trust by inviting them to witness his "magic" anytime they wished. He places his back to block the view, place a towel over the gymnast's lower body, and distract the parent with small talk. That is what is crazy. All these parents are freaked out because they literally witnessed their own daughter to be assaulted. Because the parents never said anything due to not able to see anything the daughters thought that what was happening was completely normal and they were calmed down. This caused them all to think that they were never abused. When the first allegations were published in 2016 they thought really hard about what Nassar did to them, at first denied it and said it was impossible that he did that to them too, and then their realization hit them like a bowling ball within a few weeks, months, or years.
That's so sad that she didn't make it and had all these horrible things happen to her. 😭🖤
I watched the documentary and will never watch gymnastics again. I'm so upset by what happened to these women but so proud of them for coming forth and saving others. I hope they get the help and support they need to feel safe. As for their parents I want to smack the crap out of them. If my daughter told me that someone, doctor or not, touched her I'd make sure he never did it again. It seems like so many adults wanted the Olympics more than their children. Serving them up on a platter for abuse on so many levels. I don't know how anyone can even commentate for their competitions knowing what went on.
The 1984 National Team Coach of Team USA, Don Peters, abused at least 3 gymnasts including his star from his personal club, Doe Yamashiro (who was a Team USA gymnast). It is strange how nowadays the authorities seem to want to just blame everything on Nassar and not on the coaches and top officials who all were sending the girls to Nassar to be abused. All of the hundreds of adults should be held accountable and be prosecuted. I have a feeling that if the 2012 National Team Coach of Team USA, John Geddert, didn't off himself a LOT of other powerful people would have been arrested and charged with the same crimes as Geddert did. It is very, very strange how the Geddert suicide put a complete stop on any more investigations of other coaches and executives.
Was the first gymnast to raise concerns in the 90s but nothing was done?
There were 2 gymnasts that did I think, a 16 & 14 year old, but an official report wasn't filed because Kathy Klegis (spelling's probably wrong) intimidated them into backing down by saying there'll be serious consequences for them
You are a great gymnast and a hero!
I am very sure that the reason marta didn't put Maggie on the team was because she spoke out
Rhea Toraskar no Marta did not put her on the team because Maggie didn’t qualify and she was still technically recovering from her injuries. Not because shoe spoke out.
@@charlie-mt3es she was in 6th place ... so thecnically she should have been reserve ....
im happy she placed 6th. There are 5 girls selected along with 3 alternates. She wasn’t even an alternate. And she was know as being the girl who was right behind Simone Biles. They purposely left her off that team.
She placed in front of gabby Douglas and she was on the team ...
@@bloomany Ragan Smith and McKayla Skinner also placed in front of Gabby Douglas, but none of the 3 of them had the bars game Gabby had, which was needed. We didn't need another vaulter and floor worker. They even chose Ashton Locklear, who placed well beneath everyone in question, as an alternate just because her bars was top 3.
Watching this now!! And as a former gymnast and dancer and now gymnastics coach. I am utterly stick to my stomach that this sick perverted people get near our beautiful children. And I can’t stand how in industry is as a dancer and gymnastics constantly getting told I’m fat you will never make it and I should give up by my coaches daily that lead to eating disorders and my coach would bully me in front of the class and she would have this pointe shoesoul that had nails on it and hit me with it in front of everybody and then threaten to do it to everyone else. I have now given up on my dancing and gymnastics career and I teach kids and i am proving to all this coaches you don’t have to mentally and sexually and physically fucking abuse use. It’s damaging our mental health. Sick minded people. He will rot in hell don’t worry. He’s nothing but evil. He will be taken soon. He makes me sick to my stomach.
Great documentary on Netflix!
I'm convinced she was blacklisted off the Rio team for speaking up. There is no other reason. Her knee would have been fine by Rio.
Good on that coach.
Mckayla MarOney. Not Marooney. But, it’s NBC. What do you expect.
Actually some pronounce it as maroony because of the e before the y.
So it wasn’t Maggie herself who reported it, it was a coach who overheard her conversation with another gymnast! We were told at the time of Nassar’s trial that it was Maggie herself who had first reported the abuse!
so what?
Elena Madlener wdym so what?? I already said.
@@fairlyvague82 I mean: what do you want to say with this? It doesn't matter who reported it.. it was important to be reported whether or not it was reported by herself.
Come USA Gymnastics you batter then that!! You should not wait for 3 week! Come on your batter then that!!
They’re really not.
This man took away her dream
it sucks that she didn't make the team because of nassar
Move on..guys don't let the past re-trigger your trauma
silver and gold
Im athlete A and I withdrawl mystatment
Is Steve Penny still free? Feel so bad for Maggie Nichols...
I just watched this documentary and maggies parents are horrible, they were just looking for her to be a champion, did nothing to get her out of there the minute they heard of the abuse. Horrible people
America please stop eating frozen food....
I still retrack my statment becuase i know you need it to put that man away.....
makÁylY marUnY sry for thid but its really funny
They didn't fire nassar for years what is this anchor talking about.
creeps are to light in dark rooms, coming forth every time?
The Cross :b
Sometimes I get so mad when I watch CZcams I almost wanna break my phone when I read this type of c*** it just amazes me that this guy was able to do this for so long and get away with it I hope he watches his back in prison because hes no better than any other pedophile.
But he will probably PC up and go into protective custody because every inmate will want a piece of him he would be a trophy.
I just watched this film and can I just say peadophilia on the side for a minute. They’re some good gymnasts
Ewww
nassar the beast?
bible revelation several, and I could report familiarity.
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