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With USOC in turmoil, athletes testify about sex-abuse cases

The question sex-abuse victim Craig Maurizi would like to ask to leaders at the U.S. Olympic Committee is simple and searing: “How can you sleep at night?”

The figure skater was one of four Olympic-sports athletes who testified to a Senate subcommittee Wednesday about abuse they suffered while training and competing under the purview of the USOC and the national sports organizations that controlled their Olympic dreams.

Their gut-wrenching testimony provided yet another reminder of the way leaders at the USOC, US Figure Skating, USA Gymnastics and other sports organizations failed to protect them.