--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Sex Abuse USA Gymnastics description: Team USA responds to report that U.S. gymnastics federation did not notify authorities of reports of sexual abuse by coaches canonical: https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/ author: Alice Park article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-05T16:24:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-15T20:52:14.000Z article:section: Sports og:title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Sex Abuse USA Gymnastics og:description: 'It’s a distraction' says a coach og:url: https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Sex Abuse USA Gymnastics twitter:description: 'It’s a distraction' says a coach twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sex Abuse Allegations Reach Team USA Gymnasts in Rio > Sponsored content. 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An investigation [published Thursday in the _Indianapolis Star_](http://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-sex-abuse-protected-coaches/85829732/) cites evidence USA Gymnastics, which oversees the sport from early development programs to the elite athletes competing in the Rio, was notified about multiple instances of abuse involving multiple coaches and underage girls but failed to alert law enforcement authorities. **(Read More:** [**Simone Biles is Taking Her Sport to New Heights**](http://time.com/4428013/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa/)**)** During an ongoing trial involving one victim who sued the federation and one of the coaches cited by the _Star_, two leading federation officials explained their actions by pointing to a policy of only reporting cases if the victim or victim’s parent notified the federation. Other reports, the officials said, were considered “hearsay.” Indiana law, where USA Gymnastics is based, however, requires reporting by different parties of even suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors. The report comes just as the sport is ready to showcase its most talented athletes on sport’s biggest stage. “We try to keep the kids away from that right now for this moment,” Mihai Brestyan, the U.S. women’s Olympic team assistant coach said after the team’s first training session in the Rio Olympic arena. “We have concerns but we are here to do the best we can. It’s a distraction and I don’t understand why \[it came out\] now.” [Simone Biles](http://time.com/4428013/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa/), the three time world champion who is heavily favored to win the all-around gold, said the members of the team had not been on social media and “didn’t know about \[the report\].” As a group, the gymnasts said their focus was on their last few days of training before the team event begins on Tuesday. **(Read More:** [**60 Athletes to Watch in Rio**](http://time.com/4424414/rio-olympics-2016-summer-athletes/)**)** Brestyan, who owns his own gym in Massachussetts, Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, says that careful vetting of coaches by gym owners can only go so far. “It is very difficult to control every one who comes \[to the sport\]. I really, really check every single coach who comes to my gym. We do background checks, we look into their eyes, we look at the way they are acting with the kids. But we cannot check 24 hours, that’s the problem. It doesn’t matter how many papers you sign, it doesn’t matter how many people you check, it doesn’t matter how many cameras you have in the gym. We still cannot cover 24 hours, 365 days.” “It is heartbreaking and unacceptable for a young person to have the intolerable burden that results from being a victim of sexual misconduct,” said USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny over email. “We share the outrage that sexual assault victims and their families feel. This is why USA Gymnastics has implemented Safe Sport training and created educational materials that encourage members to contact law enforcement first when reporting incidents of abuse.” **(Read More:** [**USA Gymnastics Fails to Protect Athletes**](http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-sex-abuse-scandal-2016-rio-olympics)**)** With the allegations, questions about where the responsibility for detecting — and more importantly responding to — abuse will become even more critical in a sport in which such cases are more common than they should be. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/"},"headline":"Sex Abuse Allegations Reach Team USA Gymnasts in Rio","datePublished":"2016-08-05T16:24:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-01-15T20:52:14.000Z","description":"Concerned coaches try to keep team focused on gold","url":"https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/","keywords":["sexual abuse","Summer Olympics","Gymnastics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park/Rio de Janeiro"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4440247/rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-sex-abuse/","name":"Sex Abuse Allegations Reach Team USA Gymnasts in Rio"}}]}] ```