By the time the documentary film called Athlete A came out in 2020, the story of Larry Nassar’s abuse of hundreds of young athletes was well known. There had easily been hundreds if not thousands of journalistic stories written. These stories were everywhere from the Indy Star — the newspaper that broke the story in September 2016 — to The New York Times, 60 Minutes and CNN.
There had been books about the case — Start By Believing and The Girls — and the brave women who brought Nassar down had won many awards and accolades from the likes of ESPN (the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage in 2018) and Glamour (Women of the Year) and Time Magazine (Time 100).
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