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Three USA Gymnastics Board Members Resign In Wake Of Scandal

The top three board members at USA Gymnastics have resigned amid growing calls for a total overhaul of the NGB in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex abuse trial. Chair Paul Parilla, Vice Chair Jay Binder and Treasurer Bitsy Kelley all stepped down yesterday, following former CEO Steve Penny as a casualty of the scandal. Ten days earlier, Parilla had been summoned to USOC HQ in Colorado Springs, where Chair Larry Probst and CEO Scott Blackmun suggested he resign, according to sources.

“Since October of last year, we have been engaged in discussions with leadership of USA Gymnastics about the primary recommendation of the Daniels Report -- changing the culture of USA Gymnastics,” Blackmun said in a statement. “Those discussions accelerated over the holidays and today you have seen three board resignations.” Since the Jan. 11 meeting, dozens of former gymnasts, including three-time Olympian Aly Raisman, have criticized USAG and the USOC for failing to prevent Nassar’s crimes. The USOC cannot remove members of an NGB BOD, and it is not known if the USOC threatened to de-fund or de-certify if Parilla refused.

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