Holding gymnastics to account – why one alleged victim of sexual abuse is speaking out
“I only stayed a short while in the little garden above what was once the basement of horror, but it was long enough to get what I went to collect. Together, we – me and the part of me that had been left down in that basement for so long – drove to the beach and, at last, with deep and heavy sobs that only very recently have begun to properly come out, I flung each and every gymnastics medal I had ever won, one by one, into the sea. I didn’t ever want to see them again. I never looked at them anyway. They were beyond tarnished. I needed no extra reminders of that chapter of my life.”
