‘Athlete A` exposes the ‘cruelty` of the elite gymnastics machine
(World News USA)

It’s been two years since a group of American gymnasts faced down the person who tried to break them. In 2018, Larry Nassar was finally sentenced to 40 to 125 years in federal prison for sexual assault. Nassar`s sentencing followed a series of articles exposing his crimes — some of them going as far back as the 1990s — that tore through the lives of his 500 accusers. But in the Netflix documentary, Athlete A, Nassar isn`t the only evil. There is still the corrupt system that fed those athletes to Nassar and to others — the world of elite gymnastics. Athlete A`s take on the USA Gymnastics scandal asks: what goes into making an institution that sacrifices its young? In the documentary,...