Simone Biles tweets support for Aly Raisman
Simone Biles took to social media on Monday to show her support for her Olympic teammate, Aly Raisman, after Raisman's interviews with 60 Minutes and The Today Show where she spoke about being abused by former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar.
Raisman told 60 Minutes that she realized she had been abused by Nassar when she was being interviewed by a USA Gymnastics investigator in 2015.
Raisman declined to detail the abuse during the interview but said it started when she was 15. She also describes the alleged abuse in her book, Fierce, being released this week.
"You don't want to let yourself believe, I am a victim of sexual abuse," Raisman said in the interview. "It's really not an easy thing to let yourself believe that."
Raisman is the second member of the Fierce Five squad that won gold at the London Olympics who has said Nassar abused her.
Last month, fellow Fierce Fiver McKayla Maroney came forward to say Nassar abused her for several years, beginning when she was 13. A third Olympian, Sydney bronze medalist Jamie Dantzscher, has also said she was abused by Nassar.
Others from around the gymnastics world also voiced their support: