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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 ...
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.
Census data from 2011 shows that India has a population of 472 million children below the age of eighteen. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Protection of children by the state is guaranteed to Indian citizens by an expansive reading of Article 21 of the Indian constitution, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and also mandated given India's status as signatory to the UN Convention on ...
Lovlina Borgohain. Lovlina Borgohain (born 2 October 1997) is an Indian boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in the women's welterweight event, becoming only the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. [1][2] She won gold medal at 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships and bronze medals at the 2018 AIBA Women ...
Scripps News speaks with athletes, experts and correspondents worldwide to learn more about the money behind the Olympic Games. (Scripps News)
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 ...
Long jump. Asian Junior Athletics Championships. 2018 Gifu. Long jump. Asian Athletics Championships. 2023 Bangkok. Long jump. Murali Sreeshankar (born 27 March 1999) is an Indian athlete who competes in the long jump event. He created a national record of 8.36 metres set in 2022.
India at theOlympics. India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, becoming the first Asian nation to do so. A lone athlete Norman Pritchard represented the country and won two medals – both silver – in athletics. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then.