Koreas agree on united women’s hockey team for Winter Olympics“For this sport to go on, we need to demand real change, and we need to be willing to fight for it,” she said. “It’s clear now that if we leave it up to these organizations, history is likely to repeat itself,” she said, referring to USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic Committee. Systematic doping: IOC bans Russia from 2018 Winter OlympicsMany of them spoke tearfully of how the abuse at the hands of Nassar, the former national medical coordinator for USA Gymnastics, left them emotionally scarred and angry. In calling for an independent investigation, Raisman said she was dismayed that USA Gymnastics had offered only “empty promises” as the scandal unfolded. “Unfortunately you have taken on an organization that is rotten from the inside,” Raisman said to Perry, who was not in the courtroom on Friday.

Source: The Express Tribune January 20, 2018 06:32 UTC