Dantzscher knew she wanted to be a gymnast from the moment she saw the sport on TV at the age of 3. "It was my first love, I loved everything about it," she says. And from the moment she started, she was a natural. Slowly, she began to train more and more with the goal of making it to the world stage. "Anything they said it would take to get to the Olympics, I was going to do," she says.

In 2000, Dantzscher competed in Sydney for the national team, but recalls that the structure set up in place for these young athletes was not a nurturing one. "I remember having stone bruises on my heels, I couldn't even walk on the carpet," she says. "I mean, I had broken toes I competed on and trained on, a fractured back I actually competed on. But yet, it was like every time I had an injury I wasn't believed."

The abusive environment, which also encouraged eating disorders as well as harsh, militant training, is important to grasp for context on how Nassar's abuse was able to go on, and be covered up, for nearly three decades.

Nassar would joke with the girls, sneak them candy and junk food when they were otherwise being psychologically abused and starved for their sport. Predators, former gymnast Jennifer Sey explains, were "everywhere."