The issue of the sexual abuse of Larry Nassar, a former gymnastics team doctor, with other gymnasts for a long period of years continues to be talked about and some gymnasts to address the United States Congress, this time requesting that they dissolve all members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee
Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols were the gymnasts who asked the Congress of the country to remove all members of the committee mentioned because they did not heed the complaints against Nassar.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the gymnasts wrote a letter to Congress in which they believed that “the past actions of the Board” show “an unwillingness” to address abuse in the athletic community and a “continued refusal” to reform what they consider a “broken Olympic system”.
They accuse that the Olympic Committee knew about the accusations since 2015
According to the letter sent by some Olympic gymnasts who were victims of Nassar, the United States Olympic Committee He had known since 2015 about the complaints of the former doctor who was sentenced for 175 years in 2018.
In the same they also assure that despite the knowledge that there was on the part of the Committee, “took no investigative action” and said the top US Olympic officials who were in power during that time are still in “positions of influence at the USOPC and the USOPC Foundation. “
Gymnasts too asked Congress to hire leaders who are “willing and able” to investigate the “systemic problem of sexual abuse within Olympic organizations “and” efforts to hide it. “