![]() ![]() It feels more like an assessment and a chance for everyone to prove where they’re at, as it should be. It’s nerve wracking, certainly, and everyone is being watched all the time, but it feels more casual than the videos you get to see of prior camps. They show this in contrast to how the camp is conducted now. The casual way the gymnasts speak about the camp and the Károlyis makes it more heartbreaking because it was normal for them. ![]() It’s a way to create survivors, and the episode shows that this is the case here. Creating life-long anxieties and pain isn’t the way to create elite athletes. That isn’t the way things should be done or need to be done. No one should have to live through those abuses just to compete. They did because they wanted the Olympics and the chance to compete. It shows that the young girls who went there didn’t want to be there, how they would sit there and look up ways to break their arms so they could leave, how the environment was something that no one should have to live through. ![]() The Olympic Mentality starts out with an interesting point of view, in that they make it clear how stressful, toxic, and terrible the National Team Camp was prior to 2016, when Larry Nassar and Béla and Márta Károlyi ran things. It features, as seen in She’s Gonna Be Somebody, Morgan Hurd, Laurie Hernandez, Sunisa Lee, MyKayla Skinner, and Konnor McClain. Golden: The Journey of USA’s Elite Gymnasts episode three That Olympic Mentality focuses on the process that goes into the selection for the national team and the National Team Selection Camp that has historically been a breeding ground for abuse and pain. ![]()
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