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3 [1][2][3] On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus. The incident has amplified debate about the safety of women and doctors in India, and has ...
Larry Nassar. Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) [4] is an American serial child rapist and former family medicine physician. From 1996 to 2014, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest ...
India's government introduced sweeping changes to the criminal justice system, including tougher sentences, after the 2012 Delhi gang-rape, but campaigners say little has changed and not enough ...
Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
Scripps News speaks with athletes, experts and correspondents worldwide to learn more about the money behind the Olympic Games. (Scripps News)
They say women in India continue to face rising violence despite tough laws that were implemeted following the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012.
Neeraj Chopra. Subedar Major Neeraj Chopra PVSM VSM (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian track and field athlete. Considered as the greatest Indian javelin thrower, he is a double medalist at the Olympics, World Championships, and the Asian Games. He has won the Diamond League once. Chopra won the gold medal at the 2020 Olympics, becoming the ...
Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is a scheme created by Government of India to promote sports in India. [1] In September 2014, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India started a scheme to train and promote high-performance athletes with a target of getting medals at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.