IU Indianapolis adds sports business-focused co-major
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis offers three co-majors, which are 15-credit-hour programs students can take in addition to their core major.
USA Gymnastics
In ‘Nassar 2.0,’ Olympics watchdog failed to close abuse case against gymnastics coach
With multiple alleged victims, new witnesses coming forward and coach Sean Garder’s history at three gyms in different states, the case became one of the most troubling of the 8-year-old SafeSport agency’s investigations.
USA Gymnastics and Olympic sports watchdog failed to stop coach’s sexual abuse, lawsuits allege
The lawsuits allege Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics and the Denver-based U.S. Center for SafeSport were told about “inappropriate and abusive behaviors.”
USA Gymnastics taps Major League Soccer executive as its new CEO
The new leader succeeds Li Li Leung, who announced in June that she planned to step down at the end of the year.
Noblesville lands USA Gymnastics headquarters, training facility
The national sports governing body, which has been based in Indianapolis since 1983, could move to the new facility by the end of 2028.
Li Li Leung guided USA Gymnastics out of the darkness. The outgoing president is eager for a break
The outgoing CEO of the Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics discussed transforming the organization, re-establishing trust after scandal and the search for her successor.
Li Li Leung, who led USA Gymnastics in wake of Nassar scandal, to step down
The decision, which Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics announced Thursday, comes with the organization in a far different place than it was when Leung took over in spring 2019.
Two central Indiana cities among finalists for USA Gymnastics facility
Sources told IBJ that the Indiana cities are competing with a community in Texas.
Jordan Chiles, backed by USA Gymnastics, appeals in Swiss court to reclaim Olympic medal
Chiles, the American gymnast whose bronze medal at last month’s Olympics was stripped away over a technicality, filed an appeal in Switzerland’s Supreme Court on Monday in her ongoing effort to reclaim her third-place finish.
SafeSport reopens gymnastics probe after more abuse claims
A gymnast who complained about the coaches criticized both SafeSport and Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics for what she described as an apathetic response to her and other gymnasts’ allegations—until they resulted in bad publicity.
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics still fighting for Jordan Chiles’s bronze medal
USA Gymnastics said it would “continue to pursue every possible avenue and appeal process” after the Court of Arbitration for Sport said it would not reconsider its ruling that led to the revocation of Chiles’s Olympic bronze medal.
‘No egos,’ increased transparency and golden retrievers. How USA Gymnastics came back from the brink
USA Gymnastics was a house afire five years ago, the massive fallout surrounding the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal rendering one of the U.S. Olympic movement’s marquee programs radioactive.
Government agrees to $138.7M settlement over botched USA Gymnastics probe
The settlement covers more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against the former team doctor at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics.
Nassar assault victims reach $100M deal with Justice Department, source says
An internal investigation found that FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations by women more than a year before Larry Nassar, a former doctor at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, was arrested in 2016.
USA Gymnastics seeks to build centralized training center by 2028 Olympics
It’s unclear whether the organization would move its national headquarters from Indianapolis to wherever the training center might be built.
USA Gymnastics signs 5-year deal with Nike in sign of trust in post-Nassar era
The sponsorship deal, which Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics says is the largest ever both in terms of annual value and total value for the national governing body, runs through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Formed after USA Gymnastics scandal, SafeSport center struggling 6 years after opening
The center has about 1,000 open cases, a quarter of which are more than a year old, SafeSport spokesman Dan Hill said. With only about 60 full-time investigators, it gets around 150 new complaints each week.
Larry Nassar, once employed by Indy-based USA Gymnastics, stabbed in federal prison
Larry Nassar, a former doctor who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times Sunday during an altercation with another inmate, sources told the Associated Press.
Probe into U.S. Olympic failings stunted by red tape in Washington
The commission was created more than two years ago after an investigation into how the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports organizations it oversees, including Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, mishandled sex-abuse cases.
FBI open to settling claims by gymnasts abused by Nassar
The FBI’s general counsel contacted the lawyers for Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney and dozens of other women on Wednesday to say the agency was “interested” in a resolution.