Cornyn calls on Justice Department to release report on FBI’s handling of...
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) is calling on the Justice Department’s inspector general to release his office’s report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s handling of its investigation into...
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USA Swimming sued under new California sexual abuse victims law
Debbie Denithorne was a Bay Area 11-year-old with Olympic aspirations in 1980 when Andy King approached her parents about coaching her. “I could be an elite swimmer, perhaps an Olympian,” Denithorne...
View ArticleFormer Orange County horse trainer Robert McDonald banned for life
Robert McDonald, an internationally renown equestrian trainer formerly based in Orange County, was banned for life by the U.S. Center for SafeSport this week for sexual conduct involving minors. The...
View ArticleU.S. Bankruptcy judge: Nassar settlement ‘enormous’ benefit to USOPC
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge said the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee would receive an “enormous” benefit from a settlement agreement proposal to survivors that would release the organization...
View ArticleSimone Biles, survivors ask court to force USOPC to provide answers in Larry...
Simone Biles won four gold medals at the 2016 Olympic Games with a performance that defied both gravity and human imagination. She captured the hearts of millions, the attention of Madison Avenue, and...
View ArticleSurvivors ask Barr, Congress to release report on FBI handling of Larry...
More than 120 women who were sexually abused by former U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnastics national team physician Larry Nassar on Wednesday asked Congress and Attorney General William Barr to order the...
View ArticleUSOPC wants Scott Blackmun, Rick Adams depositions conducted remotely
Attorneys for more than a 140 women who said they were sexually abused by former U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnastics national team physician Larry Nassar are opposing a request by the U.S. Olympic and...
View ArticleMark Schubert threatens lawsuit after attorney, survivors ask USA Swimming to...
Former USA Swimming national team director and Olympic team coach Mark Schubert said he will file a defamation lawsuit against Bay Area attorney Robert Allard after Allard in an open letter Wednesday...
View ArticleAllyson Felix, Mt. SAC part of virtual world class track meet
On Feb. 21 there were no reported coronavirus cases in Europe. A few weeks later there would be nearly 38,000 reported cases a day on the continent. European Union nations and Great Britain reported...
View ArticleJustice Department says investigation of FBI’s handling of Larry Nassar case...
The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against former U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnastics team physician...
View ArticleCan even Noah Lyles save track and field?
Even when it’s not in the world’s headlines for its latest doping, bribery or executive compensation scandal, track and field, a sport second only in global popularity and corruption to soccer, can’t...
View ArticleArbitrator extends U.S. Center for SafeSport suspension of Amy Nyman
An arbitrator has extended the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s suspension of Ohio gym owner and coach Amy Nyman, the wife of USA Gymnastics’ first ever sports science and medicine director, for physical...
View ArticleEx-USA Gymnastics national team coach Terry Gray arrested on lewdness charges
A former USA Gymnastics women’s national team coach has been arrested in Las Vegas and charged with 14 counts of lewdness with a child under 14, according to Clark County inmate records and two people...
View ArticleWhy an All-American pole vaulter wants to be exposed to coronavirus
While working on a research project on Irish folklore at the University of Pennsylvania last fall, Sean Clarke, an Ivy League champion and All-American pole vaulter, found words to live by in Gaelic...
View ArticleExclusive: World champion Terin Humphrey alleges Larry Nassar sexually abused...
Terin Humphrey was just 15 when she arrived at a competition in Virginia in July 2002. She was on the brink of a U.S. national team career that would make her a gymnastics world champion and she was...
View ArticleOlympian Terin Humphrey: USA Gymnastics ‘discarded me like I was trash’
In the nearly two decades after she helped the U.S. win its first World Championships team title, Terin Humphrey established herself as one of the most influential figures in American gymnastics....
View ArticleUSOPC spends $20 million more on employees than athletes in 2019
At a time when the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has repeatedly pledged to athletes, Congress and the public that it would become more athlete-centric, the organization spent nearly $20...
View ArticleSenate passes powerful Olympic reform legislation
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed major Olympic reform legislation Tuesday that demands greater accountability from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the national governing bodies and is...
View ArticleSwimmer files civil suit against former coach Scott MacFarland, USA Swimming,...
Sarah Ehekircher this week recalled a conversation she had in recent years with Elizabeth Hahn, USA Swimming’s senior manager for SafeSport. At a time when USA Swimming was receiving heavy criticism...
View ArticleSurvivors’ attorneys ask court to reject Terin Humphrey claim against Larry...
Attorneys representing a group of women who allege they were sexually abused by former U.S. Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar have filed an objection to world champion Terin Humphrey’s...
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