AP
WASHINGTON — Jessica Howard, a USA Gymnastics Hall of Famer, told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that the culture of USA Gymnastics has been about “money and medals” more than about the wellbeing of its athletes.
Olympic medalist Jamie Dantzscher, who also spoke at the hearing on sexual abuse of young athletes, tearfully testified that a former USA Gymnastics team doctor began molesting her when she was 12, representing it as medical treatment, and that the abuse even occurred at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, where she won a bronze medal.