By Danielle Zoellner For Dailymail. Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has revealed the new USA Gymnastics president intends to 'pick her brains' about what is next for the organization following the Larry Nasser scandal. Li Li Leung, a former University of Michigan gymnast who was once treated by Nassar as a teen, is the fourth person to hold the position of president and CEO in the last two years. The constant change in leadership comes as the organization attempts to recover from the fallout of the disgraced doctor's sex abuse and pornography charges. When speaking to the Today show on Thursday morning, Retton admitted the 'terrible' scandal broke her heart. McKenna earned a near-perfect score of 9. It was her last time competing with her Louisiana State University gymnastics team. Retton, 51, admitted she did not have a solution boosting the organization back up, but she wanted to help.
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How difficult is it for USA Gymnastics, an organization whose inability to deal with sexual abuse now overshadows its distinguished Olympic history, to find a leader who will put athletes first? She stepped into a leadership void and failed to fill it, making a disastrous appearance on Capitol Hill to answer questions about the Larry Nassar abuse scandal, ducking from reporters , and drawing criticism from athletes and clubs for inaction. The decision to hire Mary Lee Tracy, a coach who feuded with Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman and other athletes who decried abuse allegations and other problems in the sport, to a top federation position was the last straw. Perry resigned last month. After losing a reelection bid in , she moved to Faegre Baker Daniels, a Washington consulting firm that drew fire for its work with USA Gymnastics from the legal team representing Raisman and many other athletes who have alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Nassar, a longtime US national team doctor now likely to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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At the boycotted Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals. Her gold medal was a historic win because Retton was the first-ever American woman to win the all-around gold medal at the Olympics. The original family name was "Rotunda. She attended Fairmont Senior High School , but did not graduate. She and her family attend Second Baptist Church Houston. Retton lived in Houston, Texas , [10] until , when her family returned to West Virginia and again moved back to Houston in She was married to former University of Texas quarterback and Houston real estate developer Shannon Kelley , who now works for the Houston Baptist University athletic department.
To his right, Jamie Dantzscher started crying during her testimony. She described how she was molested by the former U. Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar when she was a teenager. Give these women credit for telling their stories. It would be a federal crime not to report abuse. Give Adams credit, too. In the past, the Olympic committee had failed to prioritize the issue of sexual assault and appeared to turn a blind eye to the issue by handing it off to the governing bodies of each Olympic sport. But on Tuesday, finally, Adams said something that was a long time coming.
