Simone Biles and Her Team Testified About Surviving Abuse. It Was Excruciating and Exceptional

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“Is that all?” McKayla Maroney remembers an FBI agent asking her.

She had just told the federal agents the story of being molested by Larry Nassar, then a doctor with USA Gymnastics. She had related, to the highest law enforcement officials in the country, how she thought she “was going to die that night, because there was no way he was going to let me go.”

On Wednesday she testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI agents dismissed her. She said that her report wasn’t documented for 17 months. When it was, she said, parts of her statement was fabricated. “USA Gymnastics, in concert with the FBI and the Olympic Committee, were working together to conceal that Larry Nassar was a predator,” she told Congress.

Maroney was joined in her Senate testimony by other USA woman gymnasts—Maggie Nichols, Aly Raisman, and Simone Biles. To the world, these gymnasts are extraordinary athletes and recognizable pop culture figures. But for years they have also been trying to expose a cover-up of Nassar’s abuse that went all the way up to the FBI. Together they represent a tiny fraction of the hundreds of women athletes who were abused by Nassar throughout his career as a doctor for USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team, and other organizations.

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https://www.glamour.com/story/simone-biles-and-team-testified-about-surviving-abuse-it-was-excruciating-and-exceptional

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1. Don't forget Michigan State.

[question everything]

2. I kinda remember that Biles was a later joiner to the group

And I wonder - no social professional- whether this was a reason for her difficulties in the Olympus.

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3. Don't forget Ohio state even though Gym "I saw nothing" Jordan wishes we would.

Remember the showers Gym and the clock is ticking for you.