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[00:00.04]Olympic champion Simone Biles and three other American gymnasts
[00:06.44]took part in a Congressional hearing Wednesday.
[00:11.52]The hearing centered on federal law enforcement's
[00:16.12]handling of sexual abuse claims
[00:19.40]against former USA Gymnastics doctor, Larry Nassar.
[00:25.32]Biles gave evidence with McKayla Maroney,
[00:28.72]Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols.
[00:32.76]Nassar is accused of abusing hundreds of people.
[00:37.20]The gymnasts provided lawmakers with forceful and emotional testimony.
[00:45.76]They described how the abuse continues to affect them.
[00:51.32]They also described how inaction and possibly illegal behavior
[00:57.56]by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
[01:00.96]or FBI, has affected their ability to heal.
[01:06.92]Biles spoke to lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
[01:13.20]She said that FBI agents and American gymnastics officials
[01:21.16]"turned a blind eye"
[01:24.00]to Nassar's abuse of her and hundreds of other women.
[01:30.60]The hearing is part of the committee's effort
[01:33.44]to understand why the FBI delayed
[01:36.88]and made mistakes in investigating Nassar.
[01:40.76]The delays let Nassar abuse other young girls and women.
[01:46.04]He is now in prison.
[01:49.36]All four witnesses said they knew of victims
[01:53.80]who were abused by Nassar after the FBI was
[01:57.60]told of allegations against him in 2015.
[02:03.24]Maroney won a gold medal with the 2012 Olympic team.
[02:08.92]She spoke by telephone with FBI agents in July of 2015.
[02:17.56]She described to agents in detail
[02:21.00]how Nassar abused her for years,
[02:24.36]beginning when she was 13 years old.
[02:28.44]She said when she described those terrible memories,
[02:33.56]there was "dead silence" from the agents.
[02:39.40]She also said the FBI did not officially document
[02:44.16]her report of child sex abuse until more than a year later.
[02:51.52]Maroney said the FBI "minimized and disregarded" her
[02:56.00]and the other gymnasts as they delayed the investigation.
[03:01.96]"I think for so long all of us questioned,
[03:06.72]just because someone else wasn't fully validating us,
[03:11.16]that we doubted what happened to us," Maroney said.
[03:15.76]"And I think that makes the healing process take longer."
[03:21.08]FBI Director Christopher Wray also spoke at the hearing.
[03:25.52]He said he was "deeply" sorry for delays
[03:29.72]in the Nassar investigation and the pain it caused.
[03:35.60]An investigation by the Justice Department released
[03:39.56]this summer said the FBI made serious mistakes.
[03:45.08]It found that the agency did not treat the case
[03:49.68]with "seriousness" after USA Gymnastics
[03:54.68]first reported the allegations
[03:57.56]to the FBI's field office in Indianapolis in 2015.
[04:05.12]Wray criticized his own agents.
[04:08.08]He made a promise to the victims that he would make sure
[04:12.44]"everybody at the FBI remembers what happened here"
[04:16.76]and that it never happens again.
[04:20.40]Wray said the FBI had dismissed a supervisory agent
[04:25.00]who had failed to correctly investigate the Nassar case
[04:29.88]and later lied about it.
[04:33.36]Biles and Maroney were joined by Aly Raisman,
[04:36.52]who won gold medals with them on the 2012
[04:40.68]and 2016 Olympic teams.
[04:44.52]Also joining them was world champion Maggie Nichols.
[04:49.68]Raisman told the senators that it sickens her
[04:53.80]that she and other victims are still looking for answers six years
[04:59.92]after the first allegations against Nassar were reported.
[05:04.72]Speaking after the hearing, Raisman called
[05:07.96]for more investigations of USA Gymnastics,
[05:11.48]Olympic officials and the FBI.
[05:14.52]The probes should be independent
[05:17.96]and go back many years, she said.
[05:22.40]Biles is the only one of the witnesses
[05:26.40]who competed in the recent Tokyo Olympic Games.
[05:30.32]During the games, she removed herself from the team finals
[05:35.44]and several other events to protect her mental health.
[05:39.88]She told lawmakers Wednesday
[05:43.00]that the trauma from her abuse
[05:46.08]was one reason why she removed herself from competition.
[05:51.16]She said she wanted to be in Tokyo "to help maintain a connection"
[05:56.88]between the failures of high-level sports officials
[06:01.44]and the Olympic competition.
[06:04.16]But that position, she said,
[06:06.80]proved to be a very "difficult burden for me to carry."
[06:12.64]Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin said
[06:17.12]it was some of the most powerful
[06:19.24]and heartbreaking testimony he had ever heard.
[06:23.08]He said he and other lawmakers "have a job to do, and we know it."
[06:28.68]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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