“And I’m 14 years old in a hotel room and I’m right there. “He’d lay there and masturbate in front of me,” Riegel continued. national team at international competitions in foreign countries.
championships, and while competing for the U.S. Air Force academies, the night before Riegel, at 12, was launched onto the global stage at Madison Square Garden, at U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, the U.S. The abuse took place at Moyer’s apartment, Riegel alleges, at local hotels and racquet clubs, at the U.S. Neither location nor occasion deterred Moyer’s abuse, said Riegel, speaking publicly on the record for the first time about his alleged abuse. “I was sexually abused by my personal coach from 1973 to 1981, and due to the absolute failures of the USGF (USAG) and USOC, it wiped away my youth, cut short my career, and left me with wounds that never heal,” Riegel wrote in a letter to USA Gymnastics and SafeSport last October. national team coach, to law enforcement during Riegel’s career. Olympic Committee staff were aware of Moyer’s sexual abuse, Riegel alleges, but took no steps to stop it or report Moyer, a U.S. Center for Safe Sport and USA Gymnastics documents obtained by SCNG.Ĭoaches and officials with USA Gymnastics, then known as the U.S.
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Moyer began exposing himself and masturbating in front of Riegel when the gymnast was just 8 years old and then masturbated and performed oral sex on him between the ages of 11 and 16, Riegel alleges in a series of exclusive interviews with the Southern California News Group and according to U.S. He was also being routinely sexually abused, Riegel alleges, by the very man who was trying to make him an Olympic champion - Larry Moyer, his coach.