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Simone Biles, Statement for 9/15 Hearing titled: Dereliction of Duty: Examining the Inspector Genereal’s Report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar Investigation
Simone Biles, Statement for 9/15 Hearing titled: Dereliction of Duty: Examining the Inspector Genereal’s Report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar InvestigationThank you for the opportunity to share my story with this Committee, and for bringing light to the crisis of abuse in amateur sports. Your commitment to ensuring the safety of gymnasts, and all amateur athletes is appreciated, important, and necessary to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. Please bear with me. To be perfectly honest, I can imagine no place that I would be less comfortable right now than sitting here in front of you, sharing these comments.
My name is Simone Biles, and I am a gymnast who has trained at all levels of the sport. As an elite gymnast, I have had the honor to represent the United States of America in multiple international competitions including World Championships and the Olympic Games. Over the course of my gymnastics career, I have won 25 World Championship medals and 7 Olympic medals for Team USA. That record means so much to me, and I am proud of my representation of this Nation through gymnastics.
I am also a survivor of sexual abuse. And I believe without a doubt that the circumstances that led to my abuse and allowed it to continue, are directly the result of the fact that the organizations created by Congress to oversee and protect me as an athlete – USA Gymnastics (USAG) and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) – failed to do their jobs.
Simone Biles | September 15, 2021
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