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Right?! There was just a total lack of self-awarness in that quote.

Also, man, the 1990s were worse than I remembered when it came to the cult of the coach. Gotta love that the NYT felt the need to devote resources to reporting on a coach’s Olympic dream not coming true, and not the actual gymnasts. What a heaping pile of steaming bullshit.
 
The amount of focus on the coach in the 90’s was crazy. John Tesh loved going on about the coaches at the Olympics and doing his fluff pieces on them. “Young women soaring, grown men crying.”



Here is a fluff on Tom from 96 Olympic trials, at 34:08:

 
I think it’s so odd to call teenage-age girls little girls. Like I get that brains aren’t fully developed until your mid-twenties, but I hate that culture infantalizes teenagers. I might have been little in stature, but it’s not like I didn’t have fully formed thoughts and opinions by the time I was in high school. Kids were already talking about politicians by the time I was in 6th grade. The 2000 election was a big deal.

Also, Dawes, Miller, Strug, Chow, and Borden were all legally adults by the time the 1996 Olympics happened.
 
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