Olympic champion Simone Biles and other top American gymnasts excoriated US sports officials and the FBI in powerful Senate testimony on We...
Olympic champion Simone Biles and other top American gymnasts excoriated US sports officials and the FBI in powerful Senate testimony on Wednesday for failing to act promptly on complaints about Larry Nassar, the former team doctor convicted of serial sexual abuse.
“We have been failed and we deserve answers,” said the 24-year-old Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated gymnast in world championships history.
“To be clear, I blame Larry Nassar but I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse,” she told an emotional hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Nassar, 58, was sentenced to life in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting women and girls while working as a team doctor at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University. USA Gymnastics reported Nassar to the FBI in July 2015, but he continued to work at MSU and sexually abused at least 70 more women until a newspaper exposed him in September 2016
Biles and the three other gymnasts – McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols – testified that they were let down by the FBI, the leadership of USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
“We suffered and continue to suffer because no one at the FBI, USAG...
