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Michigan was ground zero for a scandal rocked the world of gymnastics and revealed widespread athlete abuse in the sport. In January 2018, hundreds of young women delivered blistering¹ impact statements at the sentencing hearings for serial² pedophile Larry Nassar in Ingham and Eaton County courtrooms.

Michigan State University, USA Gymnastics, and the U.S. Olympic Committee were all called out for failing to protect young athletes. Private gyms and coaches across the country have also been investigated for abusive behavior.

Valorie Kondos Field has seen the long-term damage young gymnasts can suffer. She began coaching elite³ gymnasts in 1982 when she arrived at the University of California - Los Angeles.

Field says she spent years at UCLA "picking up the pieces" and helping⁴ damaged young women heal. She also made it her mission to help them find joy in their sport once again.

Field says the strength and courage of the Nassar survivors⁵ who spoke⁶ at the sentencing hearings was visible to every person watching.

“They’ve taught us that regardless of how much strife⁷ a human being has gone through, that when they start fueling and listening to their own inner voice, it is so powerful that they can then speak their truth with confidence, courage, grit⁸, and poise," said Field.

In January of 2018, Field wrote a powerful essay. In it, she wrote that while Nassar himself is a "mentally deranged⁹ pedophile," he is not the head of the "monster." Rather, it was the lack of consideration given to young women's voices within the culture of USA Gymnastics that created the opportunity for someone like Nassar to do so much damage.

When people say, How did he get access to so many young girls? it's very simple: We only cared about winning, and we didn't take into consideration asking the young athletes how they were feeling, Field said.

Even after these series of systematic¹⁰ failures, Field says that gymnastics is still a powerful tool for learning how to focus in a way that school or everyday life cannot. She wants to see gymnastics promote joy and the construction of the whole person, not just the athlete. Field says her goal was always to develop “champions of life through sport."

This post was written by production assistant Catherine Nouhan.

1 blistering   

adj.酷热的；猛烈的；使起疱的；可恶的v.起水疱；起气泡；使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡

参考例句：

• The runners set off at a blistering pace. 赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。
• This failure is known as preferential wetting and is responsible for blistering. 这种故障称为优先吸湿，是产生气泡的原因。 来自辞典例句

2 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

3 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

7 strife   

n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争

参考例句：

• We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
• Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。

8 grit   

n.沙粒，决心，勇气；v.下定决心，咬紧牙关

参考例句：

• The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
• I've got some grit in my shoe.我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。

9 deranged   

adj.疯狂的

参考例句：

• Traffic was stopped by a deranged man shouting at the sky.一名狂叫的疯子阻塞了交通。
• A deranged man shot and killed 14 people.一个精神失常的男子开枪打死了14人。

10 systematic   

adj.有系统的，有计划的，有方法的

参考例句：

• The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
• The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。