Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the Victim Impact Statements basically spanning a generation of US Olympic Gymnastic champions, have indicated that Larry Nassar fondled, groped, penetrated (I'd say actually raped if the word qualified -- and, if it does, I do!), and sexually pleasured his way through numerous gold medals (not to mention that the allowance of such sexual misconduct as Nassar's probably was a major factor in selecting which girls went and wore the Red, White, and Blue and the Five Rings and which did not!).
Nassar was finally sentenced from 40 years to two life sentences -- and there's more coming.
Fact of the matter is: The IOC and the IGF (the International Gymnastics Federation -- the Olympic sanctioning body) need to end USA Gymnastics. Hell, you can use Russia as a template: Get rid of the national Olympic gymnastics program, keep the individual athletes. You at least have three years to Tokyo to come up with a template (you can use results in World and National Championships, etc., to establish qualification and number of slots), but there is no USA Gymnastics anymore.
Burn it to the ground, jail anyone who knew and didn't act.
And do the same for Michigan State University, where Nassar worked with the gymnastics and women's crew programs. Latest word is the University President is out soon, as of tonight...
But death warrants, like the one the judge implies he's signing for Nassar (not entirely cool with that knowledge, knowing he can't be executed for the offenses under sentencing guidelines!), do need to be written and signed.
No more USA Gymnastics. This is the same as the state-sponsored drug program in Russia -- this is a state-sponsored sexual-deviant who has literally done these things to hundreds of women -- at least 150 of which testified in these statements.
No more Michigan State University. You can join Pedophile State and Rape-lor, as far as I'm concerned.
How much more of this are we going to have to tolerate before it becomes apparent that rape and sexual assault are used as power and screening mechanisms to determine which women are allowed the illusion of success in our culture and which are not?
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