USA Gymnastics Was Investigating Larry Nassar. Nobody Told Simone Biles.

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In the run-up to the 2016 Olympics, USA Gymnastics ignored the possibility that its brightest star had been sexually abused while in its care and walled her off from investigations. She didn't know it for years.

On July 27, 2015, USA Gymnastics dispatched its future superstar, Simone Biles, on a round of promotional appearances in the federation’s hometown of Indianapolis. It was part of a hectic marketing tour into which then-chief executive Steve Penny also squeezed an appearance by Biles at a party for his daughter’s gymnastics group the night before.

That same day, Penny did something he did not tell Biles or her family about. He had USA Gymnastics contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Indianapolis to report concerns...

 

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Nassar is a F’n freak who shouldn’t be alive right now

following up would have hurt the sport. kick the can down the road. that's what we do here.

When the very institutions that are supposed to protect are actually working for the monsters doing harm...burn them all down...

Deplorable

This is disgusting

Be cause being Black, they didnt see her as a 'real' victim. Just the pretty little white girls 😡

One day, the dam is going to break like what happened to Epstein and the insane cover-up by USAG and many adults/leaders/coaches/representatives affiliated with USAG will gain mainstream attention. That monster is reprehensible but the real story we need rn is the insane cover up

That's some truly awful people!

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