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I expect that some of the people in the skating community who railed at Bridget Namiotka will change their tune at testimony from a more famous skater. Others won't, though.
I'm glad that Ashley felt able to tell her story now, and that Christine Brennan keeps following this story.Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner, the 2016 world silver medalist and most successful U.S. female skater of her era, told USA TODAY Sports this week that the late John Coughlin sexually assaulted her in June 2008 after a party at a national team figure skating camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado, when she had just turned 17 and Coughlin was 22.
Wagner, a three-time national champion who won a team bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, said Coughlin got into her bed as she slept at the home where the party had been held and began kissing and groping her. “I was absolutely paralyzed in fear,” she said.
I expect that some of the people in the skating community who railed at Bridget Namiotka will change their tune at testimony from a more famous skater. Others won't, though.