Mattie Larson: A TSL Interview
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Mattie Larson impacted the world at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar with her emotionally intelligent, honest and courageous victim impact statement. I had a chance to catch up with the 2010 World silver medalist and UCLA alumni about her career, her views on the sport of gymnastics, the USA Gymnastics system and how she has been able to heal and move forward in her life.
Mattie Larson 2008 Olympic Trials Floor Exercise:
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Mattie Larson 2010 Nationals Floor Exercise:
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Mattie Larson 2010 World Gymnastics Championships Team Finals:
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Mattie Larson Interview - After Team Qualifications - 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships:
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Mattie Larson Interview - After Team Finals - 2010 World Gymnastics Championships:
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Mattie Larson 2012 Meet the Bruins:
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Mattie Larson Victim Impact Statement:
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Mattie is so easy to love. True gym fans will never forget her beautiful 2010 floor routines at nationals. If anything we need to make sure these young women are cared for and protected and allowed to flourish, or fail and learn from it without being berated or discounted.
100%
Agreed. She was such a great competitor and I loved watching her. It’s a shame what happened to her. Sigh.
Thanks for this interview. She seems very honest, down to earth and well spoken. Just insane what these young girls went through.
You're very welcome!
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Dave, thank you for this great interview. Mattie, you were a beautiful gymnast. Totally fierce. I loved your floor routines. You deserved far better treatment in elite gymnastics.
Such a treat. I remember her so well from her floor exercise. It was so far more artistic and sassy than any others plus with perfect execution of the difficult moves. I watched that so many times. I always thought she would go to the Olympics. And so beautiful! I had no idea of her horrible experiences that so many gymnasts had to endure. You are so brave Mattie! You have so much to offer the world with your beautiful spirit. Great interview Dave! Plus great work advice;)
Mattie you are a legend. Thank you for everything you've done to move this sport FORWARD. Love you!
Thank you for this interview! I loved hearing more of Mattie's story.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This interview is EVERYTHING. Mattie is so amazing! So much love for her! 😍😍
Her 2010 Nationals FX is one of my all time favs. I still watch it every few months. It’s the perfect mix of amazing tumbling, performance, and dance.
We were at 2008 Olympic Trials and that's where Mattie came onto my radar. I remember my mom and I discussing after each day of competition who we thought would make the team and the ONLY reason we didn't think she would that year is because we had so many veterans who were further along in their gymnastics development & experience. We agreed that Mattie, if she was healthy and wanted to, could EASILY make the next Olympic team because she was that impressive! Gorgeous gymnastics. So sad to hear what happened after that.
Love you and all your amazing gymnastics interviews. Really appreciate it!
Glad you like them!
Great interview. She is loaded with charisma and handled some difficult topics with a lot of grace and dignity.
So much intelligence and charisma! "None of this is normal. None of this is normal!" I'm really impressed with this interview. Also, dental assisting during emergencies is really interesting and fun (I've done it myself).
Mattie is great!
mattie was always one of my favorites in her elite days and she continues to amaze me into adulthood. go mattie!
Being a belgium gymfan, i watched every video of Miss Larson i could find! Happy to see you now, hope you are happy and healthy 🤩
Mattie, you are a beautiful person inside and out. It’s such a shame that so many gymnasts , skaters, athletes spend so much time and pain to get to an elite status but as you say, only .0001% make it to the Olympics and if they do, God forbid, only get fourth and even a Silver medal. Plus, have such a negative memory of all their sacrifices to do something that they once loved to do when they first started as kids. With all our experiences growing up, good and sometimes horrendous, we become stronger wiser and more resilient. Mattie, You’ll find yourself soon enough and find something you’ll love again. Carpe Diem!
I really appreciated this interview! I remember years ago, I wondered what happened to Mattie after 2010 because I really liked her gymnastics. Like many other US gymnasts I was sad to hear what they experienced when the cameras weren’t rolling, and i don’t blame Mattie for leaving that environment and feeling jaded about it.
I can definitely relate her talking disordered eating and over training since that was my case in my respective sport which left me feeling very upset and jaded when I finish my athletic career broken and feeling like I had nothing to show for it.
I teach tumbling recreationally to 5-7 year olds. With all of the USAGs dirty laundry (as well as other nations whose problems haven’t quite made it mainstream) to light, it made me wonder about the future of gymnastics and how programs can create a healthy training environment.
I think in general, many sports programs are in need of a reset button and need FUN to be prioritized over winning and body aesthetics.
I honestly think people like YOU can be a big part of the change. When you are coaching, Lead by example and be a light for others!😊 👊
First interview I have loved so much that I neeeeeded to comment. So good. I want to be her best friend!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mattie Larson you are a hero.
This is probably one of my favorite TSL interviews!
one of my all-time favorite gymnasts, so glad to hear from Mattie again! loved this interview, thanks for being so open and honest
i love how she created such beautiful gymnastics while enduring what she experienced. one of my favorite gymnast and honestly one of the best usa has ever had regardless of medals.
OH MY GOD!! LOVE THIS GIRL!!
Really wish her floor routines would go viral and the world could fall in love with her gymnastics. Its even more beautiful knowing she created such beautiful gymnastics while enduing what she experienced.
i would love a tsl breakdown of the shawn/nastia era (if there isn't already)
She is so brave! Thanks for doing this!
Great interview - thanks. Mattie seems like a lovely person. I loved her floor routine.
Dave, you have an amazing way of connecting with former athletes and I felt Mattie was comfortable to tell you a side of her story without filter and from her heart. CNN did an interview with Verona Van De Leur recently, it was just on the surface of what I I feel is also a story of vindication. I just book her book on amazon! Perhaps someone you would be interested in interviewing? I feel with your incredible gymnastics knowledge especially the culture, you can really give her story justice.
Have always loved Mattie!! Her FX is my favorite of all time 😘
Dave, you did an excellent job! After listening to this interview, I have a better understanding of how Nassar could abuse so many athletes. Those girls and women grew up in a toxic environment, in a darwinist cult that doesn't tolerate weakness and only values victory and medals at any cost. Sometimes I feel like 99 % of the adults in the world of elite gymnastics (or even skating) are trash!!
this was amazing!!! wow thank you so much
You're so welcome!
MATTIE!!!!!! *waves frantically* We love you!!!!!!! We miss your beautiful floor routines!!!!
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Hope you guys are well and can stay on schedule with the weekly TSL shows. Makes a difference.
Will have to touch base for tomorrow! We may do something brief.
I’m late to the ball game here. But this was SUCH an informative interview and I loved how you handled things with grace and grit. Fantastic interview skills!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I wonder what's her opinion on nastia liukin - she did an interview in 2018 ( a rly horrible one, u can find it on youtube ) after Mattie's testimony and her condescending tone in the interview was just awful. I know she wanted to defend her dad bc mattie named him in her testimony but she basically lied abt how Valeri never coached her when he was the head coach of the 2010 worlds silver medal team, and was one of the adults who ignored mattie after her mistakes in the team final.
great interview btw, I loved it!
I think we can imagine her opinion of Nastia :)
@@TheSkatingLesson Does anyone actually like Nastia? Nasti-a is an appropriate name from her. She puts on a good public front but there are all kinds of stories like things such as her huge tantrum and bullying of Memmel after the 2005 worlds AA result, and other things.
Honestly Mattie should not have been on the 2010 worlds team. As much as I like her gymnastics she didn't add anything to the team. She wasn't used on vault, bars, and beam, and floor could a strong team without her. They should have instead brought Vanessa Zampirro, that ex NCAA girl who had an amazing Cheng and would have added a ton to their score on vault. It just looked like an even worse decision when Mattie messed up her only event in team finals. It does not mean she deserved to be bullied, that was horrible, but I think Marta and all the others just realized she should not have been there, but that was Marta's field for picking her for the team in the first place which many questioned.
simon senecal she was 2nd AA & 1st on floor at nationals that year, that’s why she was chosen, bc she had the potential, but unfortunately she made mistakes. that doesn’t mean she shouldn’t hv been on the team? like mckayla maroney was also chosen as the 5th member of the fierce five bc she was basically a guaranteed gold but she fell during the EF. mistakes happen lol
It is so sad that these athletes spend their whole life doing something because they love it and get so effed up that they end up hating it and have nothing to do with it.
It’s terrible
Mattie, you are amazing!!! :)
I love this sweet lady! Mattie's smile makes everyone's day bright!
Wow, her mom had a fair amount of screen time in a huge movie!
Yes!
Love this interview, Dave! Mattie was one of my faves during her day. I was sad when she “disappeared” but was so happy to see her at UCLA. Her testimony shocked me and broke my heart. So great to hear her speak 😊
God, the sulfur water at the ranch is something I will NEVER forget. And the FOOD 🤢🤢
Oh wow! Did you go?!
When I was a kid I did Tumbling and Trampoline, and when I was 12 I was part of the Olympic Development Program. I was going to compete for Team USA in Portugal, so we had our team training camps there for a while before we left for Portugal. I think I’ve been 3 times.
I mean, I just can't even understand why they didn't care about any of this.
dental assistant sounds cool I hope she is happy with it!
This was amazing! Really enjoyed it, thank you very much!
You're very welcome!
Thanks for setting up this interview, but dude - STOP INTERRUPTING MATTIE! Please go back and watch how many times you cut her off throughout this interview. I honestly lost count of the number of times you interrupted Mattie's answers/train of thought, not to mention mansplaining her sport, her rankings, and how people felt about her TO her. This is Basic Journalism 101: listen to your subject's answers! Your constant need to interject "sassy" comments took what should have been an informative interview and made it almost unwatchable. You can see how uncomfortable she is throughout. Less Dave, more Mattie, please.
I apologize. I wasn't trying to be sassy. I was perhaps over caffeinated.
Thanks for pointing that out, I felt the same way watching and was irritated by that too.
I still appreciate the interview because Mattie seemed so open and reflected.
"None of this is normal" HAHA!!
Facts!!!!
Wonderful interview, thank you! Just, could it be possible letting the interviewees complete their answers? I don't know how I'd feel like if I were not allowed to finish an idea that sometimes is hard to share.
I do my best. I apologize.
@@TheSkatingLesson I know, thank you.
I love Mattie 2 pieces. Legend.
So, great interview, and you're a great interviewer, Dave. You have such a solid grounding in the deep background of the sport, you know the right questions to ask. Question: is Mattie's grandfather the TV producer Glen A. Larson, who produced the original Battlestar Galactica, the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, and BJ and the Bear (and other shows) back in the '70s/'80s? I could swear Al or someone on NBC offhandedly mentioned this, and I tried to follow up but can't nail it down. Mattie's father is named Eric and there are two Eric Larsons listed in imdb, one of whom is Glen's son and the other married Mattie's mother, but it's unclear if they're the same one.
Anyway, very impressed with Mattie in this interview. She really seems healthy. The last I'd "seen" her was at Larry's sentencing and (quite understandably) she seemed in a really bad place there. Mattie, we love you and are so glad to see you doing better. And yes! You have a great voice for VO work.
Very very interesting. It is hard to believe how these young gymnasts were treated like cattle instead of the special young girls they are. If they made a mistake...they should have been encouraged. If they were injured they should have been cared for. It is just baffling.
They really needed an actual medical staff!
Well it got them to victory and dominance. They tried the soft approach in the 97-2000 quad and we saw in Sydney what that got them. So they took a hard approach, they wanted and got huge results, but what what price? It is a quandry.
@@simonsenecal6560 They didn't take a soft approach in 97-00, listen to any of Jamie Dantzcher's recent interviews!
Dave, what really gets me is the part about Nastia not having to go to Nassar, which implies that Valeri knew enough about what Nassar was doing to want to protect his daughter from him, but didn't care enough to protect the other gymnasts he "treated".
As I said in the interview, Valeri may have believed his own doctor was superior. He is very elitist and controlling.
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That would hold water if he sent all gymnasts he was overseeing to his own doctor, and not just his daughter.
You think that someone so elitist and controlling would send his star gymnasts (Ohashi, Bross, Kocian) to "his superior doctor", and not the one he thought was inferior.
SaintHaHaLOLZ He wasn’t coaching Kocian when she went to Nassar. The other two haven’t reported being Nassar victims.
Good interview 😍
Thank you!
I saw this and thought "meh" (even though I am an elite gym fan) but I'm glad I watched it! Than you, David!
Agreed! Am watching now, & glad I am. ❤
You're welcome!
Great interview!
Thank you!
Great interview Dave!!
Thank you!
This was very inspiring to me. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
I’m sorry Maddie had to go through some horrible things she is a beautiful gymnast and so strong 💪
This is fascinating, especially since last week I listened to the entire Heavy Medals podcast. I'm glad Mattie is moving on from those psychos.
Hi Dave!! Hi Mattie!! I love this interview!! You are a great gymnast.
She is!
By radio standards, yes, Mattie has a kid's type voice. Though, in reality it's very low on the register, so if she trained it a bit she would have a great voice. She does squeak a bit when she starts laughing or something... but only if she likes it. Regardless, she's a very important voice in the world of gymnastics. She's perhaps the most honest out there.
The 2008 team was definitely protected. Two dads as coaches, Sam’s mom was on the USAG staff, and I believe Alicia Sacramone would’ve sang like a canary.
sang?
Dads as coaches? You mean That scumbag valeri liukin??? Mattie also called him out for abuse. No one was „protected“ you are delusional
38:00 Bela picked up Sam?
I have listened to a few other interviews but unfortunately when I saw Maddie Larson’s name I said ‘OMG this is going to be retelling of USA Gym is evil’ and the interviewer had that bias (IMO.) It was very refreshing to hear that her entire life was not destroyed By Larry Nasser. I have seen so many things said about her how it was ‘all Larry it was all Larry it was all Larry.’ I was just so tired of everyone painting her as a Larry Nassar Uber victim because of her statement At the trial and forgetting we are all the product of many experiences. Whenever her Rotterdam experience was mentioned some people automatically were going directly to ‘but Larry but Larry.’ It was very refreshing to hear her say it was a combination of a lot of factors.It’s nice that she’s moving forward with her family and she’s had some resolution with her past with her coaches. I’m glad she can give people new perspective that is not readily available on message boards for other people to know her story now. Because for years it’s often been endless victimization of her of how ‘Larry did this Or that’ or ‘Marta was the whole problem with everything.’ I wish her good luck going forward.
Thanks for watching!
What happened to the Texas investigation of the ranch? There seemed so much to investigate there, in addition to the Nassar abuse. Like the conditions. Are camps in Texas allowed to be that bad, for example? I doubt it. Has this been swept under the carpet?
Very sad, there are so many like Mattie who get so burned our from a sport, they want nothing to do with it. Two friends never went near the ice for 20 yrs, until going with their kids.
Let her talk
Wait... Marta has gone back to Romania and left Bela who has dementia???????
Anyone else hear the cat?lol
Mackenzie Caquatto did a beautiful DTY in team finals in 2010.
So
Beautiful gymnast broken by years of abuse.
Stop with the Chinese team already
Osteopaths are not the issue. I see an osteopath
Larry was not a doctor
I can’t eat lemons. They give me the trots. I’d never make it as a gymnast eating a lemon. Lmao 😂 they’d be screwed.
Me neither!
Stop cutting her off!!!
Wasn't trying to, we didn't always have the best connection. My apologies.
Otherwise I’m glad you’re giving her a platform to speak and air out the whole dysfunction of elite women’s gymnastics.
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Dave, really, "only an osteopath?" You clearly are unaware that DOs have MORE training than MDs. DOs are eligible for any residency training program that MDs are eligible for, but the reverse is NOT true. DOs are found in every speciality of medicine. Please at least educate yourself before spreading such misinformation. Thank you. Beyond that, I hope you watch this interview back and notice you cut Mattie off almost EVERY SINGLE time she tried to talk. She hardly did that with you at all. It would seem she had more professionalism than you did in this interview.
Dude STOP INTERRUPTING CONSTANTLY!!!!!