Usa gymnastics announcing they will resign. The very latest from lansing. Had somebody listened to you, these women wouldnt have been abused. How did this go unchecked . When girls came forward and told an adult, the adults didnt listen. Was there a code of silence just to keep the medals coming . All these people knew what he was doing . Yes. Tonight, were taking you inside the closed off elite world of womens gymnastics. The parents are not allowed in the gym. That was the rule. The warning signs to protect your daughters from abuse, and those brave women who broke their silence. Well, larry, im here. Not to tell someone, but to tell everyone. This is 20 20. When i was little, i always wanted to be in the olympics. I wanted to be a collegiate athlete. To become a Sports Medicine doctor. My dreams were definitely derailed after seeing him. I feel like part of me has been robbed. Reporter this week in lansing michigan, 19 young pill, boarding a bus for the 20mile journey from a courthouse to a community college. Where our 20 20 crew and cameras awaited them. Jennifer, and morgan. Reporter but thats nothing compared to the journey they have been on for years, coming to terms with the abuse they say they endured. Hello, ladies. Reporter they have come here to tell you their story. A story they say they couldnt tell for so long. I have to say as i sit here and look at the dpraup group of you, its unbelievable to me that every single one of you was a victim to larry nassar and youre just a drop in the bucket. Yes. For so many years you might have thought you were the only one. Look next to you. You werent. Its overwhelming. Its it didnt have to be this way. It is both incredibly comforting but also incredibly horrifying how many there are. Reporter their tormentor . Larry nassar. Hopefully this will be an educational experience. Reporter the once revered former team doctor for american gymnastics. A man from whom they sought care and comfort, and instead, suffered the cruelest form of betrayal and degradation. His fate sealed earlier this week as judge Rosemarie Aquilina made certain he would never see freedom again. Im giving you 175 years which is 2,100 months, i just signed your death warrant. So how does it feel knowing that man will never ever step outside prison again while hes alive . I am grateful but it feels very incomplete. I dont think it really represents the pain, and all of the emotions that all of us have gone through, and all the other women out there. Everyone tell me how old you were you when larry nassar first abused you . 12. 8. 14. 20. So, i heard a 20 thats the oldest. I heard a 7 . 7 . Yup, at one point my coach was even in the room with me. Your coach was even in the room with you . Yeah. How many of you suffered from anxiety as a result of what happened to you . Panic attacks, depression . What a legacy for pursuing what was your dream. Now we have a new dream. Whats the new dream . Change the world. Reporter the courageous women we met were among the 156 who took turns giving those searing victim impact statements at sentencing. I have experienced flashbacks. One after the other. The anguish. The anger. How much i [ bleep ] hate you. Reporter lasting more than seven extraordinary days. And now youre the worlds number one child molester and p pedonfile. Reporter some with very familiar faces and names like olympic Gold Medalist aly raisman. Reporter raisman the Worst Epidemic of sexual abuse in the history of sports. And others she called an army of survivors, bravely shedding their anonymity in unprecedented numbers. Their parents wiping away tears, still haunted and bewildered by the assaults that went unnoticed, sometimes with them in the room. She said, mom, he put his fingers in me and they werent gloved. And i said, chelsea, i was right there in the room, and she said, you couldnt see what was going on mom. And she said, he hurt me i willingly took my most precious gift in this world to you, and you hurt her. And she was only 8. I cannot help but think, how did i miss the red flags . Reporter for every sister survivor who testified in court, there is a story of a little girl with a dream, and a love of a sport. Like akemi look. She was immediately dazzled by rhythmic gymnastics watching the 1996 olympics. I was 10 years old and i was riveted. I was on the edge of my seat as a little girl because, you know, you see these beautiful streamers flying up in the air, and its such a graceful sport, and they throw their equipment up 30 something feet and into the air and and then catch it. And its like magic. And i said to my mom, i want to do this. Reporter Mattie Larsons love for gymnastics began when she was just two years old. I could almost do what the sixyearolds could do, at two. It was like i had found my calling at two years old. You were one of these kids with the magic pixie dust. Yeah. It came so easy to me, and thats what i loved about it. Reporter Lindsey Lemke was six when the gymnastics bug bit her. The higher level i got the more accolades i had the more confidence i had in myself and you know that was kind of something i wanted to pursue. Reporter all three girls rapidly ascended the ranks. Becoming elite gymnasts. How quickly did coaches around you know you were Something Special . It was pretty quick. My parents told me all the coaches that we tried. She has it she could go all the way. They were saying this before you were 7 years old . Yeah was there a particular event that was your specialty . Floor my favorite. I think it kind of showed because i lit up when i did floor. Reporter with the dreams, came grueling commitment. I gave up everything i was always in the gym practicing. I wanted to make the olympics. Its a life that is very different from the normal High School Girls life. Theres so much competition and so much loneliness and so much isolation youre training most of the day. Its incredibly cutthroat. Reporter and hand in hand with the non stop training, there were frequent injuries. I was at practice and i did a 2 1 2 twist, and i landed on my ankle and it rolled out, and then i heard a crack. I had broken my foot. I had shin splints. I had knee pain. I was doing splits and i couldnt lift my leg off the ground. It was the sharpest pain. I just cried and cried and cried. Reporter and with those injuries came treatment. And the coach said, you need to go see the team doctor. Yeah. Hell make you better. Yeah. Reporter little did they know, they say there was no cure in sight. You have the olympic doctor . Yes. It was like, wow, im lucky. You know i just hurt my foot and hes already fitting me in his schedule. 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My first thoughts of larry nasser is that he was a ge gregarious, kind, thoughtful person. Very competent very caring very warm and engaging. He was charismatic. I was enapmored by him. Everyone was. Olympian kerri strug vaulted into history and our hearts with her bravery at the 1996 atlanta olympics. Kerri strug is hurt, she is hurt badly. Reporter brought to her knees by injury, but winning a gold medal for her team. There was another rising star sharing that iconic moment the man on the right, helping support her, team doctor larry nasser. He was seen as a man who was the best at what he did, so good that usa gymnastics wanted him at the olympics. They wanted him to be the one person on earth who would be treating their top athletes. This was a guy who taught Religious School at a local church. He volunteered as the team doctor for the high school there. Reporter nassar rubbed shoulders with gymnastics royalty, bela and marta karolyi. With us gymnastics its basically all about the karolyis. And to have the karolyis trust, that means everything in gymnastics. Reporter the karolyis texas Training Camp was well known in gymnastics circles for its grueling bootcamp atmosphere. When dr nassar worked at the camp, the girls say he was a rare friendly face plying them with candy and kindness. He was nice i mean, he was kind, he was caring. Lindsey lemke met larry nassar at twist stars gym. Her parents became close Family Friends with the doctor and his wife. He began treating her for back pain when she was in middle school. Welcome to gymnasticsdoctor. Com. Reporter dr. Nassar liked to show off his techniques, posting videos he called tender teaching moments on his website. There are legitimate treatments that require doctors to touch intimate areas. And dr. Nassar took advantage of that going beyond medical necessity for his own perverse pleasure. Lindsey says when she was 12, nassars procedures when his fingers suddenly became invasive. And then he went inside of me, and i was like this isnt the same thing. Was he talking to you . Yes normal conversation. As a young person, much less a child, the thought that a doctor could be using you for his own sexual gratification is something that doesnt even enter your mind. I mean, i went over to his house for around four days a week for years. You went to his house to get these treatments . To his basement. Did you think this was weird . No. He was our friend. Anything odd about the treatments . His eyes were always closed. Never did you think this was anything other than a medical procedure . Correct. You trusted larry. Did it help your injury . No. It never got better until i stopped seeing larry. Nassars victims say they were uniquely vulnerable. They were in pain from injuries. They were told dr. Nasser was the only one who could heal them. As top athletes, they were used to taking orders they were programmed for obedience. They wanted robots and it was survival of the fittest and if you didnt survive then see you later, youre not on the team. Reporter akemi look was a rhythmic gymnast. She says she was seen by dr nassar several times with no issues until one appointment when she was 15. And then he says to me, im just going to make an adjustment, it might be a little uncomfortable. The next thing i know, i feel his fingers pressing up inside my vagina. I remember my face getting really hot, and being so confused about why he was touching me there. I buried my head in the table and just prayed for it to be over. She told no one. I felt so violated and so embarrassed that someone had touched me there. I had to justify it to myself by saying that he was trying to heal me. Reporter it wasnt just the girls who were fooled by nassars treatments. The Sports Medicine community viewed him as an authority in the field. Nassar even contributed a chapter to this medical textbook. Complete with a cringeworthy photo of what the author says are nassars hands on a girls bottom. In the text, nassar encourages other doctors to touch what he calls the nofly zone the area around the genitals. I didnt say anything to anybody. Reporter Mattie Larson says the first time she can distin distinctly remember nassar abusing her was at what should have been one of the highlights of her life as an athlete her first us National Championship. He was supposed to be treating her for a painful hip injury. So what did he do to you that day . I was asking him questions about the pain in my hip, then he put his fingers in my vagina and was asking me, oh did that feel better . Reporter larson says no matter where the injury, the supposed treatment was often similar. Even though i didnt know i was being molested, i was uncomfortable but i didnt think it was wrong, cause, i didnt like a lot of things about gymnastics. You just push you just do what you are told and you dont say anything. A part of me is still trying to forgive myself for being so naive. You dont theres nothing to forgive. I know, but. I just want to. Wish i could be me and go back in time and talk to me at that age. What would you say . I would just hug me. I would just hug me and say, its going to be okay and talk to someone. Tell someone. Well, youre telling people now. Reporter shes telling and so was the brave woman who first broke the silence about dr. Nassars terrible treatments, and other women finally realized they are not alone. Show of hands, do you all agree with her that it numbers in the thousands . Reporter stay with us. Or does it tell you that im strong . That ill run this company some day. My face can be bold, when you expect me to be weak. It can be subtle or innocent. With highlighter, lipstick and mascara, i express who i am right now and who i want to be. Covergirl. I am what i make up. 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Reporter its the summer of 2016, and america is celebrating the success of the final five, the gold medal winning usas womens gymnastics team, which dominated the rio olympic games. Led by simone biles. And veterans Gabby Douglas and aly raisman. Thats what a National Champion looks like. We are the final five reporter but 5,000 miles away in a dusty newsroom, three reporters for the Indianapolis Star publish an investigative report on the ugly side of this beautiful sport. Usa gymnastics wasnt always reporting allegations of sexual abuse that it was receiving. From the day after that story was published, Rachael Denhollander reached out to us and told us about dr. Nassar, and thats the first we knew of him. It was just after my 15th birthday. I saw him for approximately a year and he abused me between 10 and 13 times during that timeframe. He penetrated me vaginally and anally. Reporter that was back in 2000 when rachael denhollaner was a clublevel gymnast. Why did you decide did you think maybe now people will believe me . That this door has been cracked open by this fantastic journalism in the Indianapolis Star . I was very aware of the abuse. I was confident that there were thousands, thousands of victims out there. And i also of larry . Absolutely. Absolutely. Thousands. Show of hands as you all agree with her that it numbers in the thousands. Absolutely. Astonishing. Reporter dr. Nassar is prominent and a revered doctor in gymnastics, so reporter tim evans pays him a visit. When i first got there, he was basically pleading that we not write a story, that this was a misunderstandi