The coach of the 2012 Olympic champion gymnastics team, John Geddert, committed suicide hours after his indictment on Thursday for "forced labor" and sexual assault on athletes at his Michigan club, the attorney general said. from this American state, Dana Nessel.
"My services were warned that the body of John Geddert was found this afternoon after he committed suicide," she said on Twitter, regretting "the tragic end of a tragic story ".
Ms Nessel had earlier today announced that the 63-year-old ex-trainer was being prosecuted for physical, verbal and sexual abuse of around 20 young women who were training at his Twistars club near Lansing.
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