Simone Biles, the world's most awarded gymnast in her category, is among the athletes who filed a formal lawsuit against the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) for sexual abuse. Biles, who hopes to compete again in the Olympic Games. of Tokyo 2020, she first entered her name in a lawsuit that will compel her to appear in court.

Lawyers for Olympic athletes such as Biles, Madison Kocian , Aly Raisman , McKayla Maroney , Kyla Ross , Jordyn Wieber and Jamie Dantzscher , along with 140 other victims of sexual assault by the disgraced American national team doctor Larry Nassar, filed a motion to request the testimony. current and past Olympic managers.

In January 2018, Biles made her first statement on Twitter revealing that Nassar had sexually assaulted her while she was in training and competition camps for the US team, near Houston, where the athlete resides. Now, this court filing marks the first time that she has publicly identified herself as a plaintiff in the ongoing civil action, which puts her in the unique position of suing the same entities that sanction her sport.

The motion filed in federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis seeks the testimony of, among others, Susanne Lyons, the current president of the USOPC; Scott Blackmun, former CEO of the organization, and Alan Ashley, the former head of sports performance. Last February, attorneys representing the sport's governing body, USA Gymnastics (USAG), proposed a $ 215 million settlement offer in the federal bankruptcy case.

The $ 215 million offer

That offer, which was rejected by Nassar's more than 140 victims, was contingent upon their release to the USOPC of any current or future claims. The settlement would mean not only that the USOPC would not be financially responsible for compensating victims of Nassar's abuse, but also that the organization's current and former executives would not have to offer judicial statements. "The intention is to protect the victims, so that before the justice and the public the truth of what the USOPC knew about the sexual abuse of their athletes is known," claims the official documentation released Monday in court.

In a telephone hearing last week, Robyn L. Moberly, chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Indiana, said it would be a "huge" benefit to the USOPC if a proposed settlement agreement released the organization of any demand. The report was first published in the Orange County Register.

According to an investigation conducted on behalf of the then USOC (the organization has been renamed to include Paralympic athletes) by Boston-based law firm Ropes & Gray, both Blackmun and Ashley were informed of Nassar's sexual assaults on team gymnasts. United States National in July 2015 by former USAG CEO Steve Penny.

Nassar, who has already been convicted of his crimes and is serving a 175-year prison sentence, resigned as the USAG National Medical Coordinator in September 2015, but continued to treat patients in his role as an osteopathic physician at Michigan State University until September 2016.

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