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Christine Brennan

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first: 2017-12-23
most recent: 2017-12-23
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“February 1st. Right. I'm going to miss the Super Bowl. I figure it's way too important to get there, get settled, then start covering it.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my God. You know, for generations, we deprive 50, 51% of our nation from learning about winning and losing at a young age teamwork and sportsmanship. What the heck were we thinking? I mean, that's what's, Title IX is not about creating Olympic athletes, even though it does, which is why the U.S. dominates the medal count in the summer Olympics because of Title IX. Team Title IX. If you don't like Title IX, you watch the Olympics, you cheered for the United States and Katie Ladecki and whoever else, well, you love Title IX. Those three guys hiding under a desk in Montana somewhere who still don't like it. Well, you know, come on out. What's going to happen with them? And just continue to go keep going because dads and moms red states, blue states, it doesn't matter. People love the fact that their daughters can play sports like their sons and get college scholarships and be healthy, vibrant young women who will learn how to lose at a young age and will be better colleagues, teammates, better at anything they do because they played sports.”
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“I think it's going to be whatever people want it to be. For example, women's sports were always terribly covered. We've totally missed the women's sports story in mainstream sports media male-dominated. Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore. You're a girl who loves sports, a mom or dad who loves sports. You follow the Maryland Women's Basketball team on websites and blogs and Instagram. And you've got all the info you need so you don't need the old media to follow it. So certainly I think that's part of it. You create what you love. You've created your own coverage of it. That's not good for mainstream media, but in part it's because of the failings of mainstream media. I do think women's sports will continue to grow. Participation is just a huge story. Every woman who runs for president in Senate and Congress will all have played sports because of Title IX. Not that I think Title IX's a big deal or anything.”
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“Where is sports going? Where do you imagine? Because sports has been such an important part of media, it's been an important part of our national discussion and how we unite. But it's definitely something's changed. So where do you, if you had to go out 50 years, what is sports?”
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“We're all right who paid billions. Right. Yeah. Now anybody can take anything. And they had those two guys in the jackets in the closet and the kind of thing. Last question, because we've got to get going.”
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“Totally. And I've always loved the news. What drew me to journalism was the news and writing, but also just that news, what was going on. And now we can be the purveyors of that. And so frankly, even though I'm not working for NBC and working for other networks, and also my main thing is USA today, we're in there and we're breaking news as well. The idea that a rights holder is the only one, well, no. We're all rights holders.”
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“It's got a patch, and now he's got diving, and now he's made it, and now he's winning the gold medal. So I love the fact that we don't have to wait for the paper to hit the north.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About him winning the gold medal also, it includes hitting his head because I didn't even know the deadline between now and then. I'd be tweeting, I'd be writing. It would be fantastic. The vehicle that it gives us, I would have been able to write that story and basically break the news because I'm one of the three journalists watching that happen. Again, thankfully, he was fine and he's great now and a wonderful person and great social leader in so many ways. But I could have broken Greg Luganus has hit his head.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's nonstop. And of course, I love the fact that you do have a vehicle now, so something happens at 3 in the morning. When I was covering the Soul Olympics in 88, perfect story to kind of illustrate this, Greg Loganus hits his head. I'm there, watching him hit his head in the preliminaries of the diving. And 30 minutes later, you know, he's back up there with a patch on his head and the greatest diver is in real danger of not even making the finals. Well, he made it and he won the gold medal the next day. That entire story I just described happened within one deadline cycle of the Washington Post. Right. Meaning that the story I wrote”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they really, all these networks have to do this because they know that when someone gets up in the morning, they're going to want to see what happened overnight in South Korea. And they see the clips, and now they're fine with it. They got the info. So that, frankly, is the way the Olympics has to appeal, I think, much more than just adding more fun and interesting X games kind of sports. Sure, is to actually appeal by having the apps, by having the information so that everyone wakes up in the States.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like the old days. But they don't have the young people. So the idea was let's bring in these kind of cool games, you know, doing cartwheels in the air and all these twists and all this stuff. And let's get younger viewers. Well, frankly, that hasn't happened because while this has been going on, you also, of course, have the advent of the iPhone and smartphones. And everyone finding out everything. So NBC and the coverage of these, whether it's NBC for the US audience or all the different rights holders around the world, really now they're going to real time. The idea of packaging it to FLA 211.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh gosh. Which do they add? Which do they add? Well, I will say I'm more of a purist, as I said. All of these X games, you know, ski cross things, I mean, I know the idea behind it's fascinating, actually. The idea was...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not up on my curling people yet, but I will be. But look out, you know, Canadians are always Canadian. They always got their act together on this.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They have beers in their hand while they're doing it. No, they don't, but they might as well. I've actually been curling as in a recreational thing in Canada.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, and that's to be gaining. And Peggy Fleming to Dorothy Hanley. It's always the TV ratings will still be high, even though skating's not the same. Yeah, people like to watch it.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Off of a centimeter or two, one way or the other, an inch or two. And I mean, the danger could be extraordinary. So that's, you know, I think that's the allure, frankly, of the Winter Olympics. These are sports that most Americans, most people around the world really don't play. Right, right. Most kids play a little basketball or swim or something or run, right? But for the winner, unless you grow up in the north and skate a little bit or something, you don't know any of these.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, exactly, because why are people in it? When you go to these water parks and you go through all those things, they now picture being on a base. But yeah, ice and a sled and the speed and the downhill. And of course they're wearing helmets and stuff because”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is crazy. And watch them. I've been to a loose track and you watch them go by with that speed, and you just realize the danger and the precision. Because is there navigating through this tunnel? It's like, you know, when you go to the...”
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“Yeah, Rouge, love that. She won the bronze. It came out of nowhere. And now they go, you know, the flexible flyer like going down the mountain, but times 100. Louis is crazy.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right spies. Well, and it's a lot of Norwegians and Russians doing the Russians, our friends, the Russians. Aaron Hamlin is a loser. She's terrific.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their nemesis. Every Olympic gold medal has been won by either Canada or the US in ice hockey, going back to 98. And the Canadians, U.S. had the Canadians four years ago, last minute in the game, Canadians stuck in a goal. Over time, the Canadians won crushing to the American women, U.S. women. So there's nothing that we'll be watching more than U.S. women against Canada, probably for the gold medal at the end of those Olympic Games.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which country? I'm interested Yeah, oh, yes. Well, Netherlands is always good. Korea, South Korea is great. You've had China do well over the years in those sports and speed skating. Hockey is going to be interesting. So men's hockey, the NHL players will no longer be competing for the US. So we might have almost like a miracle on ice possibility again with younger players. Women's hockey is going to be one of the great stories. You might recall a few months ago the women had to fight for equal pay and were threatening to sit out the world championships. They did get more money, but still egregious pay gap between the men and the women in USA hockey. And I wrote several columns on this and was very critical of USA hockey. Well, the women have come back. These are the girls next door. These are the Title IX, the All-American girls. You know, if your daughter's playing sports, you love this women's ice hockey team, just like the women's soccer team in Brandy Chistain and all those guys, Miaham from a couple decades ago. So they're going to face camp.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. Lizzie Vaughan literally one of my favorite stories, 2006, Turin Olympics. She crashes in a training run. They airlift her off the mountain. They've got to take her to the hospital. She checks herself out of the hospital, shows up in the day of competition, finishes in the top 10. That is guts. Yeah. So she'll still be around. Got a lot of the snowboarders and the Sean White is still coming back, he says. And you got a ton of kind of the egg saint, the X-Games kind of people that I don't really cover those, not because I don't care, but to me I'm a traditionalist, so give me the opening ceremonies, closing ceremonies, figure skating, speed skating, the Americans hopefully will be better. Maybe they can bring back Bonnie Blair because there's a whole new list of names and stuff, but there are clearly people that the U.S. speed skating has fallen down a bit. And another one.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Mikhail Schiffrin in skiing is coming back. She won the gold in Solem. She'll be back. Lindsay Vaughn, let's see if she can make it talk about older and have one more last run down the mountain. She is fearless. I mean, for people who somehow still think, I hope there's no one out there that think that women athletes are not as fearless as men. Are you kidding? Yeah.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Five, six years. No, Michelle Kwan, but certainly has been as good as she could be. And she spoke out. And then she went to Russia and spoke out against Putin on Russian soil. This woman is fearless. Also is taken on Trump. And who knows what she might say about our friend Rocketman.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Spectacular in all sports, even as an artistic sport like skating, they also give the component scores for all the artistry. But you're seeing that there's much more danger there. And really, the old joke that the accounting firm has already sent the results in for figure skating during the days when it was more of a coronation as opposed to a competition, that is no more. And on the women's side, there's a Russian Evgeny Ahmedova who's actually injured as well. She was the odds on favorite, but now she's injured. Look out for an interesting person. 26 years old, Ashley Wagner. 26. 26. That's old. Yeah, she's like 10 years older than most of these people, which by itself is fantastic from the DC area, now trains in California. She's the one who spoke out against Putin and is anti-gay law. She just said, I got to speak out. No one else did. She went to Russia. She was on the U.S. team, won the Team Bronze Medal. One of our Americans, really the most consistent American female figure skater over the last...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've got a couple Japanese skaters. You've got Javier Fernandez from Spain, a wonderful showman, but got a Canadian, Patrick Chen, who's still come back after, what, three Olympics, he's back again as a veteran. But these guys have had an uneven fall, all of them. One of the Japanese stars is injured. And so we'll see. I mean, they're pushing the limits on this sport as well. There are more injuries and there's more changing going on. Right.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, y'all be covering probably a lot of finger scanning, assuming I'm not having a debate all the time. You know, there's an American kid named Nathan Chen. People should look 18 years old. He has got five, six quads in his long program at his extraordinary, just a jumper, but great artistry was trained in ballet as a young man from Salt Lake City. Super smart kid. Watch for Nathan Chen. If there's a lot of people, ISIS is slippery, you know, it can be a slippery sport. There's a lot of falling going on. Nathan Chen could even sneak in for an Olympic gold medal. I would predict him to be on the podium. Who is it?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And if Trump's tweeting, and of course if he's tweeting in the morning, that's nighttime in South Korea, certainly prepared for this, one would hope that when the U.S. Olympic team, among all the other Olympic teams, is over there, that the president of the United States would have the personal restraint.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think we might have already, yes, I'm going, covering it. Good knowing. Right, yeah, thank you. Yes, I'll let you know how it goes. I will say the positive on this is that I covered the 88 Olympics in Seoul, and we all thought Kara that North Koreans were going to open, literally open the floodgates of their rivers and dams and flood Olympics, and they never did. I think as long as, and I'm hoping I'm correct on this, the Chinese athletes and Russian athletes, we'll see about Russia, are there possibility some North Korean athletes were there, will be there, let's hope. Frankly, they could have, they've had conventional weapons pointed at each other for 70 years, north and South Korea. So this new infusion of the conversation about nuclear weapons is terrible and terrifying and very worthy of course. Are you prepared?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's another issue. How could you forget him? We couldn't 40 to 50 miles from the DMZ is where Pyongchung is. I think we'll be fine.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I think it's going to be a fascinating Olympics. Obviously, there's the specter of Donald Trump and his friend Rocketman, 40 miles from 50 miles from.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're going to finish up actually talking about sports itself. So, what do weeks should we expect from the Olympics and sports in general? Where is it going? So let's talk about this Olympics. What to watch out for?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And the punch and all the terrible things that have happened. And the NFL has handled it, I think, pretty well. Franklin, the Players Union has kind of been dragging its feet. These, I've accepted this and actually embraced it. I probably talk about these issues. I rarely cover games now. And I'm glad I do. I mean, these are such important national conversations. And because they're sports scar, we're bringing a whole different group of people to these national conversations. I think that's a positive thing.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The kids' book, you know, youth books that tell these stories. Yeah, but also, but crackups. You have no You just didn't ask Of course About one of these male coaches who was Really not. And of course, it also changes the nature of sports coverage, right? I mean, here you are, you're covering social issues all the time now. He literally had sex, drugs, you know, it's...”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, and there's, I think every one of these gymnasts has their own autobiography, if not the kids' book, youth books that tell these stories. One is I think we've learned from whether it's Tiger Woods or Jerry Sandusky, again, very different stories, very different stories. Yeah, but also, but crack-ups. You have no idea what their lives are like. No, I think we get, I've covered Tiger Woods for years and that whole, there's no way you can know what he's doing 24-7. So I think I'm not, believe me, if I had heard any of this, I would have reported, I would have stopped I was doing a report in it. In fact, in figure skating, there were stories of predatory coaches, and I worked on that for one of my books, and I actually did write about one of these male coaches who was a predator and was doing terrible things to young boys. And he was not only in USA today, but New York Times. So I think we try, but I think the idea of getting inside of these sports, we're in kind of, but we're really not.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mm-hmm. After they compete, Do reporters do enough? Because I think about that in the Hollywood stuff, the media stuff. I mean, everyone had senses with some of these people. You'd heard stories and stuff like that. And I think about myself, like, why didn't I act on that? Like I had a rumor, but you never knew because it was so isolated. Like that, that's what it's done is, do you think given that most journalists are men, most sports journalists are men, have they done enough to recognize it? Like there were two books on Uber with not a word of sexual harassment. It was sort of like, how did you notice?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Compete, right? But hopefully they can be the person so you could go to them. There has to be something good. You're asking a great question. I think it's still unknown exactly how it's going to do.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So going into these Olympics. Without a doubt. And you've got, for example, in figure scanning, you've also got the issue of Gracie Gold, the American top American four years ago, two-time national champ, who's now not going to be competing because she's been getting rehab and help with eating disorders and other issues. You know, you throw that in the mix. Just quote-unquote jest bulimia and anorexia, which has always been a huge part of some of these younger women's sports. What can be done? There has to be a way for them to speak out and not fear retribution from a coach or even a parent who says, how dare you speak out because you now just blew it for all of us. There has to be that clearinghouse. Again, this safe sport initiative from the U.S. Olympic Committee is supposed to be that. Just gearing up, it's taken a long time to get going, too long. They need to do a better job. There needs to be, but I would also hope a lot of these young people who've spoken out, say going back to gymnastics, you now have Allie Raceman, you have Gabby Douglas, you have Michaela Moroni. Young are they?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We thought they were under pressure. Exactly, except with Weinstein and Charlie Rose and all the others, at least we're probably talking about people at least five, six, seven, eight years older. Right. Right. In a workplace. And still suffer. It's awful, of course, just awful. And what a wonderful time, though, that these things are coming out, that people are listening.”
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“And the trauma they're facing, and it's not just what they're actually doing is hard enough. Is it hard enough? We thought they were under pressure. So what can be done about this? Because they do create these sort of high pressure environments. And so you don't want to, just the same thing with the Harvey Weinstein. They just don't want to lose their jobs. They don't want to lose people make all kinds of sacrifices for things.”
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“Right, because how do you say, because again, you speak out, you're going to be removed from that team, and there goes your dream, and there goes everything your parents have been spending money on. The pressure is enormous on these kids. Frankly, it's amazing that these young women held it together enough to compete. What remarkable young athletic”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And this is your dream seasoning. But how could you even tell one of your colleagues who your teammates, even if you've got a roommate that”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They have the ranch and all the good, the top elite gymnasts get to go down there, and now you have the team doctor down there, and they have back pain, and so now he's working on them. And of course, this absolutely horrifying, repulsive, disgusting, illegal criminal activity that he did was all in the name of working on them and doing the things that he did to them. So again, now you're away from home. You're down there at this camp. This is going to be the championship.”
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“Sure, you have a daughter who's good. And so she starts doing the tumbling. How many zillions of people have done this? Take the kids and they tumble and they somersault and whatever. Or skate. Yes, exactly. And then they get better and they get better and better. Well, pretty soon you realize this kid is really good. And everyone's telling you you've got to either go to a, maybe you're lucky in your town, in your city. There's a great coach and a great gym or skating rink, whatever. If not, you got to move. And that's been figure skating so many of them move. Split the family. One parent stays home. The other one goes with the kid. Often that can lead to divorce. I mean, this alone is, and I've written, as I said a couple books, and there's certainly those stories are in there. And now you are with this coach. And now throw it back to gymnastics, the team aspect, so the Corollis, Belli Caroly, the great star that gave us Nadia Komenich, Mary Lorette, et cetera, the star coach, he had his wife also a great coach, Marta, who then became in charge of the team.”
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“Because that's clearly a problem. Explain for people how they get in that situation because they're in a very, I was assuming first a pressure. Where they find themselves in the most vulnerable positions”
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“Well, certainly there has to be some kind of a clearinghouse or some kind of anonymous tip line where you can, where these young athletes can feel they can get heard, because that's clearly a problem.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“54 years old. So that's been Over Harvey Weinstein of gymnastics. Exactly. These are little girls Same thing And it's since the Olympics. This is the Olympics. So what can happen? What will happen next in this?”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These are little girls. And of course, when people say, well, why wouldn't they have spoken out the London Olympics? Well, why wouldn't they have spoken out? Because they're 14, 15 years old. This is the dream of their lives. It's not only them, it's their parents, the parents have mortgaged the house again. They're spending this kind of money. And what kid has the power to speak out? And if you speak out, you're afraid that they'll just take you and put, you know, fill in another girl and the young woman in your place. It's just horrifying. And we've seen it with swimming, USA swimming. It did not do a great job with male coaches, with young women, teenage girls. Same thing. Same exact thing. They have now something safe sport, a whole initiative that the U.S. Olympic Committee has started, an independent group, kind of like the anti-doping agency now for Safe Sport, just getting going. But this is a huge black mark and just a horror show, Kara, in terms of what's going on. It's just the Olympics. This is the Olympics. So you're cheering for those American athletes.”
2017-12-23 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the gymnastics one is the one that is just Larry Nasser, who has just pleaded guilty and will go to jail as the judge said. She said to him, you know, for the rest of your life, he's 54 years old, so that's going to be a lot of time in jail. And this is that horrifying story where now three of the five members of that very famous 2012 London Olympic gold medal winning, Fierce Five, including Gabby Douglas now, have come out and Ellie Raceman and Michaela Moroni in talking about how he sexually assaulted and abused them. In at least one case during the London Olympics. Right. And it's horrifying. USA gymnastics has already gotten rid of its CEO. They've hired a woman who's just going to get started now. But it's over the USA-to-day network lansing paper, over 140 gymnasts saying that Larry Nasser, this doctor, had abused them, and overall it's well over 350 that the Indianapolis starved. Harvey Weinstein of gymnastics. Exactly.”
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