{"id":52,"date":"2018-06-22T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handponist.lawblogger.net\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:07:14","slug":"usa-gymnastics-suspends-2016-olympian-alex-naddour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/blog\/usa-gymnastics-suspends-2016-olympian-alex-naddour\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Gymnastics Suspends 2016 Olympian Alex Naddour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2018\/11\/25\/arizona-gymnast-alex-naddour-cleared-u-s-center-safesport\/1283769002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Update<\/a>: On November 13, 2018, the Safe Sport Center dismissed the disciplinary action against Naddour, and he was removed from USAG\u2019s list of suspended members on November 14. He does not intend to make any other public statements regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p>On June 20, 2018, USA Gymnastics (\u201cUSAG\u201d) suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/usagym.org\/pages\/athletes\/athleteListDetail.html?id=58769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Naddour<\/a>, member of the 2016 U.S. Olympics team in men\u2019s gymnastics and a member of the current Senior National Team, pending the resolution of allegations of sexual misconduct. His suspension prohibits him from participating in any USAG activities.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Olympic Committee (\u201cUSOC\u201d) is responsible for, among other things, establishing programs to develop world class athletes in the Olympic sports. To that end, USOC has designated 47 organizations as national governing bodies (\u201cNGBs\u201d), each with responsibility for one or more sports. USAG, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Indianapolis, is the NGB for several types of gymnastics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/blog\/usa-gymnastics-suspends-2016-olympian-alex-naddour\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading USA Gymnastics Suspends 2016 Olympian Alex Naddour\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: On November 13, 2018, the Safe Sport Center dismissed the disciplinary action against Naddour, and he was removed from USAG\u2019s list of suspended members on November 14. He does not intend to make any other public statements regarding the matter. On June 20, 2018, USA Gymnastics (\u201cUSAG\u201d) suspended Alex Naddour, member of the 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USA Gymnastics Suspends 2016 Olympian Alex Naddour &#8212; Indiana Law Blog &#8212; June 22, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: On November 13, 2018, the Safe Sport Center dismissed the disciplinary action against Naddour, and he was removed from USAG\u2019s list of suspended &#8212; June 22, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/blog\/usa-gymnastics-suspends-2016-olympian-alex-naddour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"USA Gymnastics Suspends 2016 Olympian Alex Naddour &#8212; Indiana Law Blog &#8212; June 22, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Update: On November 13, 2018, the Safe Sport Center dismissed the disciplinary action against Naddour, and he was removed from USAG\u2019s list of suspended &#8212; June 22, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael R. 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