Simone Biles blasts USA Gymnastics, FBI for allowing sex abuse
Al Jazeera
US star gymnasts berate institutions overseen by Congress for failing to investigate years of abuses.
United States Olympic gymnast Simone Biles blasted USA Gymnastics and the FBI for standing by while team doctor Larry Nassar assaulted her and hundreds of other athletes in the largest sexual abuse case in the history of American sports.
“We have been failed and we deserve answers,” Biles said in blunt and tearful testimony at a US Senate public hearing on Wednesday where she appeared with three other athletes, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols.
“It really feels like the FBI turned a blind eye to us,” said Biles, who placed additional blame at the feet of legislators who have oversight over congressionally chartered US Olympic governing bodies.
