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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:28 AM Jan 2018

USOC gives USA Gymnastics board six days to resign or federation will be decertified

Source: USA Today

Nancy Armour and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY Published 10:31 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2018 | Updated 10:35 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2018

USA Gymnastics’ status as the sport’s national governing body will be terminated unless it meets six conditions set out by the U.S. Olympic Committee, including the resignation of the entire board by next Wednesday.

USOC CEO Scott Blackmun outlined the conditions in an email sent Thursday to the USA Gymnastics board. While Blackmun had called on the board to resign Wednesday in an open letter to the Olympic community, the email was far more specific in both what the USOC expects from USA Gymnastics and the repercussions if it doesn’t deliver.

The letter comes a day after former national team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing more than 150 girls and young women, including Olympic champions Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber.

“We do not base these requirements on any knowledge that any individual USAG staff or board members had a role in fostering or obscuring Nassar’s actions,” Blackmun wrote. “Our position comes from a clear sense that USAG culture needs fundamental rebuilding.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/01/25/usoc-gives-usa-gymnastics-board-six-days-resign-federation-decertified/1068099001/

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USOC gives USA Gymnastics board six days to resign or federation will be decertified (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP

Good! Reform has to take place at the top or it's only pretense. Hortensis Jan 2018 #1

Good alarimer Jan 2018 #2

some reading melm00se Jan 2018 #7

k and r nt. Stuart G Jan 2018 #3

The young women.. Toorich Jan 2018 #4

Agreed, as an oversight board and athlete liaisons obamanut2012 Jan 2018 #6

Burn it all down n2doc Jan 2018 #5

USA Gymnastics board to resign amid sex abuse scandal: spokeswoman Eugene Jan 2018 #8

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

1. Good! Reform has to take place at the top or it's only pretense.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:40 AM

Jan 2018

"USAG culture needs fundamental rebuilding.”

alarimer

(16,245 posts)

2. Good

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:11 AM

Jan 2018

That whole sport needs reforming. It is sick and creepy. Why are the women's teams so young, while the men's teams are older? Why do the women have to wear skimpy outfits and the men get to wear pants? Sexist and just plain weird to me.

melm00se

(4,993 posts)

7. some reading

Reply to alarimer (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:09 PM

Jan 2018

http://www.thisisinsider.com/why-are-female-olympic-gymnasts-so-young-2016-8

https://www.salon.com/2008/08/08/chinese_gymnasts/

while quora is not the be all/end all this answer is interesting
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-female-gymnasts-peak-so-young

http://www.thegrindstone.com/2012/07/20/career-management/why-male-gymnasts-have-longer-careers-than-females-nastia-liuken-age-gymnasts-730/

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)

3. k and r nt.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 10:32 AM

Jan 2018

Toorich

(391 posts)

4. The young women..

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:02 AM

Jan 2018

who no longer compete (and who want to serve) should be installed on a permanent oversight board with a separate budget, investigatory and subpoena powers.
If not, there should be a total and complete boycott by every USA Gymnastics member from ages 3 on up.
That financial hit would get their attention.
Just my opinion.

obamanut2012

(26,080 posts)

6. Agreed, as an oversight board and athlete liaisons

Reply to Toorich (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:56 AM

Jan 2018

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

5. Burn it all down

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 11:29 AM

Jan 2018

Needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up, with all new people. Including a heavy dose of those who experienced crimes that the old guard covered up.

Eugene

(61,900 posts)

8. USA Gymnastics board to resign amid sex abuse scandal: spokeswoman

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:31 PM

Jan 2018

Source: Reuters

#POLITICS JANUARY 26, 2018 / 5:51 AM / UPDATED 26 MINUTES AGO

USA Gymnastics board to resign amid sex abuse scandal: spokeswoman

Jonathan Allen, David Shepardson
5 MIN READ

(Reuters) - The remaining directors of USA Gymnastics will resign following revelations that the former national team doctor sexually abused female athletes, complying with a demand from the U.S. Olympic Committee, a spokeswoman for gymnastics group said on Friday.

The doctor, Larry Nassar, was handed an effective life prison sentence this week, following days of emotional statements by gymnasts, including Olympic medalists Aly Raisman and Simone Biles.

The USOC had threatened to strip the group of its power to run its sport if the remaining 16 directors did not resign by Wednesday. Five have already resigned as a result of the scandal.

“USA Gymnastics will comply with the USOC requirements,” Leslie King, a spokeswoman for USA Gymnastics, said in an e-mail on Friday.

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