Champion Gymnasts Ask Congress to Dissolve USOPC Board

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In a letter sent Wednesday to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), Olympic gymnastics champions Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman and World champion Maggie Nichols called for Congress to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s board of directors.

As reported by Sports Illustrated, the four gymnasts — survivors of former USOPC and USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar's sexual abuse — requested a joint resolution be passed by Nov. 1 under the Empowering Olympians and Paralympians and Amateur Athlete Act of 2020, which Blumenthal and Moran co-authored. The legislation placed more liability on the committee and national governing bodies for sexual abuses by coaches, officials and employees. Additionally, it allows Congress to decertify the bodies or dissolve their boards.

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