Bobsled medalist Aja Evans sues chiropractor alleging sexual assault - ESPN

Aja Evans, a collegiate track and field star whose journey took her from Chicago's South Side to a bronze medal in the 2014 Olympics, filed a lawsuit in New York state court Wednesday, alleging she was sexually assaulted on multiple occasions during treatment sessions by a doctor who for years was a fixture on Team USA's medical staff.

Dr. Jonathan Wilhelm, a chiropractor with offices in Bozeman and Belgrade, Montana; Wilhelm's Pro Chiropractic clinic; the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee; and the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation are listed as defendants in the lawsuit, filed in Essex County not far from the Lake Placid facility where Evans and her teammates trained for international competitions.

Evans says she first met Wilhelm in 2012, seeing him as a patient for a hip injury. During that treatment session, she says, Wilhelm asked her inappropriate questions about her personal life and touched her exposed genital area in a way that made her recoil.

According to the lawsuit, Wilhelm «touched and groped Ms. Evans' genitals and body in contravention of any applicable medical standards.»

«The repeated molestation and sexual assault I suffered at the hands of John Wilhelm left me physically and emotionally damaged, to the point where I experience chronic anxiety and fell out of love with the sport of bobsledding,» Evans said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

Evans says she and her teammates reported Wilhelm's behavior to coaches and officials within USA Bobsled and Skeleton after Wilhelm recorded video and took pictures of them in various states of undress during treatment sessions and before competition.

«At times I spoke up to the coaches and the medical staff, it was really disregarded,» Evans told