USA Gymnastics bans Richard Carlson
USA Gymnastics has banned coach Richard Carlson, more than two years after former world champion gymnast Marcia Frederick told the organization that Carlson had sex with when she was a teenager.
Frederick, who at 15 in 1978 became the first U.S. woman to win a world title gymnastics, told the Orange County Register earlier this year that Carlson, her coach at a Connecticut gymnastics academy, had her perform sex acts on him for two years starting in 1979 and only weeks after she turned
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