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Aly Raisman: Conditions at Karolyi Ranch made athletes vulnerable to Nassar

To Aly Raisman, there is culpability in the crummy little details. The showers were moldy, she says, and the food was so repulsive that it seemed calculated to give them eating disorders. "It didn't sit well in your stomach, something wasn't right," she says. If U.S. Olympic authorities couldn't be bothered to care about the dirty showers and the lousy diet at the Karolyi Ranch, no wonder they didn't catch the sexual molester who preyed on her and her gold medal gymnastics teammates for years.

From 2001 to 2017 Bela and Marta Karolyi's Texas ranch was the designated National Team Training Center for gymnastics, an engine that generated gold medals and million-dollar salaries for officials like former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny.