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Christine Brennan:
Geoff, this has been a national conversation, a cultural conversation in the U.S. about how we look at young women, body image, the issue of eating disorders, anorexia.
These are conversations that we have had at the very top elite level of sport, but we have also had those conversations in our kitchens with our daughters and nieces and granddaughters and just having much more awareness, frankly, of those issues over the last, say, 10 or 15 years.
And look at the result, a team that America cares and the world cares so much about, led by the great Simone Biles, the gymnastics team. We were so used to seeing them look so thin. We’d hear about the injuries, the horrors, of course, of the — Larry Nassar, the sexual assault scandal, the worst sex abuse scandal in sports history, including Simone Biles, a survivor in that from those horrors.
We have dealt with all of this, and look at the result now. You have got these women, as you said, the Golden Girls, perfect name for them, in their 20s. Simone Biles is 27. This is an age that would never have been on the radar screen 20 years ago in gymnastics. And yet here we are now.
So not only are they the greatest in the world athletically, but they truly are a symbol of what we have been discussing as a nation in terms of how we look at women and young girls.
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