![]() ![]() ![]() Horowitz later determined that statement to be “materially false." Meanwhile, McKayla Maroney recounted to the committee how the agent who interviewed her in 2015, Michael Langeman, who was fired from the FBI on Monday, didn’t write down her statement until over a year later. And when the interview finally occurred, Steve Penny - then-CEO of USA Gymnastics - arranged for it to be held at the Olympic Training Center, where she was “under the control and observation of USAG and USOPC.” But instead of taking action to cut off Nassar’s access, the FBI took over a year respond to Raisman’s requests to be interviewed, she said. And while the FBI’s failings had been investigated, she said, “neither USAG nor USOPC, have ever been made the subject of the same level of scrutiny.”Īly Raisman, who led the Olympic team in Rio in 2016 and is the second-most decorated American gymnast (behind Biles), told the committee it was clear in 2015 that Nassar had abused at least six gymnasts. Nobody informed her that she wasn’t the only athlete Nassar had abused until after the Rio Olympics concluded in 2016. ![]() “USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee knew that I was abused by their official team doctor long before I was ever made aware of their knowledge,” Biles said in her opening statement. But in each of their statements to the committee, the four gymnasts sitting before the dais reminded the attendees that it was USA Gymnastics and US Olympic and Paralympic Committee that gave Nassar the cover he needed to continue his predatory behavior. The outrage from the committee toward the FBI was bipartisan. ![]()
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