The now 41-year-old Gutsu, who was the all-around champion at the 1992 Olympic Games in

Barcelona, used a post on her Facebook account on Tuesday to accuse a former teammate and
fellow gold medalist of raping her when she was 15 years old.
In the post, Gutsu (pictured above in 1992) alleges that Vitaly Scherbo raped her in 1991 during
a competition in Stuttgart. She described Scherbo as a "monster who kept me in my own prison
to be afraid for so many years."
The claim comes amid thousands of similar ones from women all over the globe who have used
the Twitter hashtag #MeToo to report experiences of sexual harassment or assault. The hashtag
is thought to have been started by American actress Alyssa Milano.
Fellow former Soviet competitors Rustam Sharipov, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, and Tatyana
Toropova also drew criticism from Gutsu in the post for a perceived lack of support.
for the Unified Team at the 1992 Games. The team drew athletes from a wide pool in the former
Soviet Union's Olympic program, which produced more than a thousand Olympic medalists
between 1952 and 1991.
Gutsu retired soon after her win in Barcelona and moved to the United States. She now works
as the head coach of the Ohio State mens gymnastics team.
Scherbo also lives in the United States and operates a gymnastics school in Las Vegas.
Meanwhile, McKayla Maroney, a two-time medalist at the 2012 Olympics in London, has said
she was molested for years by a former USA Gymnastics team doctor. In a statement posted via
her Twitter account, Maroney, 21, said that the abuse had begun in her early teens and
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The doctor Maroney accused, Larry Nassar spent three decades working with athletes at USA
Gymnastics but now is in jail in Michigan awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to
possession of child pornography. Nassar is also awaiting trial on separate criminal sexual
conduct charges and has been sued by more than 125 women alleging abuse. He has pleaded
not guilty to the assault charges, and the dozens of civil suits filed in Michigan are currently in
mediation.