SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Rachel Axon discusses Senate subcommittee hearing where former athletes criticized the national governing bodies for their sport as well as the USOC and others for failing to prevent and stop sexual abuse. USA TODAY Sports
By the time the U.S. Center for SafeSport officially opened its doors in March 2017, USA Gymnastics had already been mired for eight months in one of the country’s worst sexual abuse crises.
Its longtime team physician, Larry Nassar, was in jail, awaiting trial on 28 federal and state charges and accused of sexual assault by more than 80 young women and girls.