USA Gymnastics Chief Operating Officer Ron Galimore resigns

USA Gymnastics Chief Operating Officer Ron Galimore, also a former Olympian, has resigned from his position. He served in that position for the Gymnastics body from 2011. He was reportedly one of those persons from the body who tried to cover the accusations against Larry Nassar when they had surfaced.

“The USA Gymnastics board of directors has accepted the resignation of Chief Operating Officer Ron Galimore,” the organisation said in a brief statement.

The resignation comes days after the US Olympics committee decided to dissolve the USA Gymnastics Federation citing the reason that the Gymnastics body has failed to handle the situation in a commendable manner. Earlier, Steve Penny, President and Chief Executive of the Gymnastics body had also resigned. He was charged with of felony of tampering with evidence in the investigation of Nassar, who was awarded life sentence earlier this year for sexually abusing more than 250 athletes, including several stars of the United States’ gold medal-winning teams at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

Regarding the cover up provided by Galimore to Nasar the Indianapolis Star newspaper cited emails it had obtained in which then-USA Gymnastics lawyer Scott D Himsel told Nassar that Galimore would say the doctor was absent from events because he was ill or for personal reasons, when he was, in fact, barred from the events while under investigation.