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Eugene

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Thu Mar 16, 2017, 03:03 PM Mar 2017

USA gymnastics president resigns amid abuse scandal

Source: Associated Press

USA gymnastics president resigns amid abuse scandal

By WILL GRAVES and EDDIE PELLS
Mar. 16, 2017 2:27 PM EDT

Steve Penny resigned as president of USA Gymnastics on Thursday following intensified pressure on the organization for its handling of sex abuse cases.

The resignation came a week after the United States Olympic Committee's board recommended to USA Gymnastics chairman Paul Parilla that Penny should step down. Penny offered his resignation during a previously scheduled board meeting on Thursday.

"My decision to step aside as CEO is solely to support the best interests of USA Gymnastics at this time," Penny said in a statement.

Penny joined USA Gymnastics in 1999 and was named the organization's president in 2005, overseeing one of the greatest runs in Olympic history. Led by national team coordinator Martha Karolyi, the women's program has become a dominant force, producing each of the last four Olympic all-around champions and team golds in 2012 and 2016. The success turned gymnasts like Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson into stars and made USA Gymnastics a magnet for big-time corporate sponsors who wanted to be aligned with its healthy, winning image.

That image took a serious hit in recent months following an investigation by the Indianapolis Star that portrayed USA Gymnastics as slow to act when it came to addressing allegations of sexual abuse by a team doctor and coaches at member gyms across the country.

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USA gymnastics president resigns amid abuse scandal (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2017 OP
And why does your stepping down "support the best interests of USA Gymnastics at this time"? Iggo Mar 2017 #1

Iggo

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1. And why does your stepping down "support the best interests of USA Gymnastics at this time"?
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:09 PM
Mar 2017

Because you seemed not to give a shit about little girls being sexually abused.

You suck.

Fuck you.

Get the fuck out before I fucking throw you out on your motherfucking head, you goddam piece of shit.

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