USA Gymnastics just can't seem to get out of its own way when it comes to establishing new leadership. The honeymoon lasted just one day for USA Gymnastics interim President Mary Bono, who was appointed on Friday and came under fire from the sport's biggest star on Saturday.
In times of stress and trouble, as we're seeing now in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, but also in any other disaster or tragedy, it is too easy for those of us whose homes are "high and dry" and who "lost" little or nothing, to offer empty platitudes and often well-meaning but useless advice to those who have lost so much. We can say things like: "it was just a house," or "you're young; you can rebuild."
A senator called on the U.S. Olympic Committee to cease trying to be dropped as a defendant in sex-abuse lawsuits filed by gold-medal gymnasts, saying "part of accepting moral responsibility is to accept legal responsibility" for the crimes committed by Larry Nassar.
Speed skater Bridie Farrell and figure skater Craig Maurizi, testifies before a Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security hearing about "Olympic abuse: The role of national governing bodies in protecting our athletes" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. less Speed skater Bridie Farrell and figure skater Craig Maurizi, testifies before a Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security hearing ... more In this March 3, 2017, photo, former competitive speedskater Bridie Farrell poses for a photo in New York.
Scott Blackmun resigned as chief executive of the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday, stepping aside so he can tackle his worsening bout with prostate cancer and to allow the federation to move forward under new leadership to address the sex-abuse scandal that has rocked gymnastics and other sports. Blackmun leaves as calls for his ouster were growing louder -- from two U.S. senators and, more notably, from a number of gymnasts and other athletes who said neither he nor the USOC at large reacted properly to cases including those involving Larry Nassar, the doctor who sexually abused members of the U.S. gymnastics team.
In the days before his leather-and-cowboy-hat look, Roy Moore was a West Point gymnast in the model of an earlier Roy Moore, "the father of American gymnastics." The most famous Roy Moore in history, through at least the mid-twentieth century, was likely a New Yorker named Roy E. Moore, often referred to as "the father of American gymnastics."
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