One of the most painful moments for us is when we have to give up our dreams of all our hard work and years. The harder you try, the greater the pain. However, if the reason is not because of yourself, but because of external factors, and if the outside is entirely absurd, then it is despair, not pain. This is because the dreams you have dreamed of throughout your life, as well as your fierce efforts, can be felt worthless.

Not long ago, the sad choice of triathlon Choi Sook-hyun made everyone feel sad. It is difficult to guess how heavy and painful the crush on him would have been if the assault struck him. One of the reasons we become more furious is that only the events change each time, and similar news continues to repeat.

The Netflix documentary <We Are Forever Young> (Athlete A) reaffirms that this is not a problem of a single sport or a country. Larry Nasser, a team doctor for the University of Michigan gymnastics team and the United States national team gymnastics team, sexually abused young female gymnast athletes. His abuses lasted for over 30 years, with more than 500 victims identified to date. The Olympic gold medalist was no exception.


It's hard to easily understand how the violence against so many people could be concealed for so many years. This work reveals the structure that made his violence possible, rather than the personal crime of Larry Nasser.

Until the 1950s, gymnastics, where adult women predominantly became, became older in the late 1960s. In 1976, starting with Maria Comanec, who showed a legendary 10-point acting, teenage girls are settled as the main players. A small, skinny, child-like body began to be the ideal body shape for gymnasts. Moreover, as Eastern Europe, such as Romania and the Soviet Union, hungered on Olympic medals, their rigorous training methods were accepted.

The Karolis, who fled from Romania in the 1980s, became coaches of the United States national gymnastics team and adhered to rigorous training methods. Players elected as national teams and standing armies were trained for several months in a camp run by the couple. Parents are banned from accessing rare mountain camps. Larry Nasser was there as a team doctor responsible for the health of the players and devoured the girls.

Athletes usually start gymnastics at the age of six or six. In order to grow up to become a national representative, I do not go to school, do homeschooling, and focus solely on gymnastics. Their life was one with gymnastics, and the Olympic medals were a reward for everything they gave up. Intense training and pain for long periods of intense training has always been a problem, but coaches are only concerned with skill completion and higher scores than the athlete's condition.

One player's tearful confession, "Only Larry Nasser was the only kind adult in the national team," shows the violence and emotional devastation of the girls' situation. Nasser was able to easily penetrate the hearts of girls with warm encouragement and a few candy. The girls who raised the question because they thought his treatment was strange were branded as a strange child who made useless noises. Through ignorance, the girls came to the point of doubting what was going on.

Above all, what made them silent was the terrible reality that the moment they raised the problem, they could be completely cut off from their dreams.


Maggie Nichols, who reported to the Association that Nasser's treatment was abnormal in 2015, was marked as anonymous'Athlete A'in her investigation records. Maggie and her parents' reports were ignored by the coaching staff, the gymnastics association was concealed, and even the FBI was not properly investigated. It was Nasser who devastated the player, but it was never a solo offense. The president of the gymnastics association, which focused on marketing using the image of gymnast athletes, and the coaching staff who were not interested in the human rights of athletes because of their achievements, were all accomplices who concealed his crimes.

The judge in charge of the Nasser case gave the victims an opportunity to speak in court. The Korean title of the film comes from the comments of one of the victims. He said, "The little girls are not forever young. They will grow up as powerful women and come to smash your world." Encouraged by the judge and audience. Prosecutors who prosecuted them on behalf of the victims called for them to be survivors, not victims of the crime. Maggie was also able to get her name out of'Player A'.

The athletes confessed that Nasser's violence made his experience as an athlete, achievement and even Olympic gold medals meaningless. However, she testified that court and hearing of the 175-year-old sentence that listened to the pain and anger of the victims of adulthood had brought her efforts and fruits that had been submerged in shame back into place.

In order for Choi Sook-hyun's death to be remembered meaningfully, this event should be an opportunity to discuss and correct structural problems of all sports associations. To do this, above all, it seems necessary to restore the belief that a society capable of legal punishment so that violence that disrupts normal life can be regulated.

Recently, it was thought that proper punishment of child pornography criminals would not be possible in Korea, so the delivery of US criminals who had been expected as an alternative was frustrated. At the funeral of the mother of a politician who was arrested for sex crimes, the harmony of the titles of officials forms the front door.

Judicial justice and the structure of political societies that are too generous to the perpetrators and too indifferent to the victims are undermining trust in the protection of the victims.

Only when all of these changes have been made will the victims be no longer the'extreme choices', but will become survivors who will accuse their suffering through judicial justice and institutional reform and regain their lives.


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