USOC acting chief Susanne Lyons, USA Gymnastics CEO Kerry Perry, Tim Hinchey, President and CEO of USA Swimming, Steve McNally, Executive Director, USA Taekwondo and Shellie Pfohl, CEO, U.S. Center for SafeSport prepare to testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Olympic athletes and sexual abuse on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top executive of USA Gymnastics apologised during a congressional hearing on Wednesday to hundreds of female athletes who were sexually abused by longtime team doctor Larry Nassar and declared that "those days are over."
Kerry Perry, chief executive of USA Gymnastics since December, said she was "appalled and sickened" by Nassar's sexual abuse of athletes while he was a USA Gymnastics volunteer.
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