As a result, the moment they signed up to be a member of an elite program, they also, unbeknownst to them, signed up to lose their voices. Even when the gymnasts reported their sexual abuse to certain members in USAG, their reports were never investigated. Gymnasts at these high-level facilities were never in the position to question an authority figure, like Nassar, even when he would inappropriately penetrate their vaginas and rectums with his fingers while gymnasts laid on his massage table to receive treatment for their injuries. Olympic Committee in Texas, seeking damages for the canceled sale of their gymnastics facilities to USA.
If the gymnasts strayed off the diet or were found with sugary items, their coaches would punish them by verbally assaulting their weight and height, calling them fat in front of the team or, in some cases, physically harming them. Bela and Martha Karolyi have filed a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Additionally, these coaches placed the gymnasts on rigid diets that were suspiciously close to starvation. During trainings, athletes could not complain about “minor” injuries like calloused and ripped palms, stress fractures, or excruciating back pain. Coaches expected their gymnasts to obediently perform fearsome acrobatics under apprehension that if they errored, their coach would strike, scratch, slap, or throw things at them.
Prior to the scandal, elite gymnasts were sent at a young age to intense training facilities and taught silent obedience: an authoritarian, dehumanizing idea utilized by the Karolyis and other high-level coaches, such as John Geddert, the 2012 USA Olympic coach and club owner of Twistars Gymnastics, who was also named in the Nassar scandal. Silence out of fear is one of the biggest flaws within the elite gymnastics world.
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