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United States of America Gymnastics (USA Gymnastics or USAG) is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States.It sets the domestic rules and policies that govern the sport, promotes and develops gymnastics on the grassroots and national levels, and serves as a resource center for members, clubs, fans and gymnasts.
Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
USA Gymnastics, the governing body for gymnastics in the United States, generally names the teams each summer after the National Championships, but gymnasts are sometimes added to or removed from the rosters based on their performance at training camps throughout the year. Thus, some gymnasts listed under a given year were on the national team ...
Also in 2015, USAG quietly fired Larry Nassar, who had served for 18 years as sports-medicine doctor for the women's national team. USAG said it acted "after learning of athlete concerns". [6] [7] [8] But Nassar continued to run a clinic and gymnastics club at MSU, [7] where he was a faculty member. [9]
USA Gymnastics was denied in its appeal to retain the Olympic bronze medal awarded to Jordan Chiles in the floor routine final at the Paris Games, the group announced Monday.. USAG announced the ...
Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) [4] is an American serial child rapist and former family medicine physician. From 1996 to 2014, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.
The 2021 U.S. Classic, known as the 2021 GK U.S. Classic for sponsorship reasons, is the 37th edition of the U.S. Classic gymnastics tournament. The competition was held on May 21–22, 2021, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis , Indiana.
Marisa Kwiatkowski is an American journalist and former investigative reporter at USA Today, [1] known for her reporting of the USA Gymnastics' sexual abuse scandal. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of July 2024, she is a director of journalism programs at the Knight Foundation .