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Jordan Chiles, backed by USA Gymnastics, appeals in Swiss court to reclaim Olympic medal
Chiles, the American gymnast whose bronze medal at last month’s Olympics was stripped away over a technicality, filed an appeal in Switzerland’s Supreme Court on Monday in her ongoing effort to reclaim her third-place finish.
SafeSport reopens gymnastics probe after more abuse claims
A gymnast who complained about the coaches criticized both SafeSport and Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics for what she described as an apathetic response to her and other gymnasts’ allegations—until they resulted in bad publicity.
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics still fighting for Jordan Chiles’s bronze medal
USA Gymnastics said it would “continue to pursue every possible avenue and appeal process” after the Court of Arbitration for Sport said it would not reconsider its ruling that led to the revocation of Chiles’s Olympic bronze medal.
‘No egos,’ increased transparency and golden retrievers. How USA Gymnastics came back from the brink
USA Gymnastics was a house afire five years ago, the massive fallout surrounding the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal rendering one of the U.S. Olympic movement’s marquee programs radioactive.
Government agrees to $138.7M settlement over botched USA Gymnastics probe
The settlement covers more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against the former team doctor at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics.
Nassar assault victims reach $100M deal with Justice Department, source says
An internal investigation found that FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations by women more than a year before Larry Nassar, a former doctor at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, was arrested in 2016.
USA Gymnastics seeks to build centralized training center by 2028 Olympics
It’s unclear whether the organization would move its national headquarters from Indianapolis to wherever the training center might be built.
USA Gymnastics signs 5-year deal with Nike in sign of trust in post-Nassar era
The sponsorship deal, which Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics says is the largest ever both in terms of annual value and total value for the national governing body, runs through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Formed after USA Gymnastics scandal, SafeSport center struggling 6 years after opening
The center has about 1,000 open cases, a quarter of which are more than a year old, SafeSport spokesman Dan Hill said. With only about 60 full-time investigators, it gets around 150 new complaints each week.
Larry Nassar, once employed by Indy-based USA Gymnastics, stabbed in federal prison
Larry Nassar, a former doctor who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times Sunday during an altercation with another inmate, sources told the Associated Press.
Probe into U.S. Olympic failings stunted by red tape in Washington
The commission was created more than two years ago after an investigation into how the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports organizations it oversees, including Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, mishandled sex-abuse cases.
FBI open to settling claims by gymnasts abused by Nassar
The FBI’s general counsel contacted the lawyers for Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney and dozens of other women on Wednesday to say the agency was “interested” in a resolution.
Nassar loses last appeal in gymnastics sexual assault case
Former sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists, said he was treated unfairly in 2018 and deserved a new hearing, based on provocative comments by a judge who called him a “monster.”
UPDATE: Simone Biles, others seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar
There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that sports doctor Larry Nassar was accused of molesting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year.
No charges for former FBI agents in botched Larry Nassar probe
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it will not pursue criminal charges against former FBI agents who failed to quickly open an investigation of sports doctor Larry Nassar despite learning in 2015 that he was accused of sexually assaulting female gymnasts.
USA Gymnastics picks 2008 silver medalists for top posts
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics is turning to two of its most-decorated athletes to help guide its women’s elite program.
USA Gymnastics reaches $380M settlement with Nassar victims
A federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis on Monday confirmed the settlement between USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the hundreds of victims, ending one aspect of the fallout of the largest sexual abuse scandal in the history of the U.S. Olympic movement.
Justice Department reviewing decision not to charge FBI agents in Nassar case
The Justice Department is under fire for not pursuing false-statements charges against a supervisory FBI agent and his boss for what the agency’s inspector general concluded were lies to internal investigators to cover up their failures.
Biles credits IndyStar for revealing gymnastics abuse. Here’s how it got the story.
The Star’s investment on a single story was especially astonishing at a time when local and regional newspapers around the country have faced shrinking ad revenue or hedge-fund takeovers, some of them closing altogether.