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'I Was Raising Hell': Fired Ex-U.S. Olympic VP Says He Exposed Athlete Mistreatment

Bill Moreau, a former vice president with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, says the issue has been in the public spotlight for years and officials still aren't doing enough to prevent abuse.
Former U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's vice president of sports medicine Bill Moreau is suing the organization. He says he was fired for exposing the mistreatment of athletes.

A former high-ranking official at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is suing the organization because he says he was fired last year for raising concerns about its treatment of Olympic athletes.

Bill Moreau was vice president for sports medicine at the USOPC for 10 years. In an interview with NPR, Moreau says the USOPC still is not doing enough to prevent abuse, even though the issue has been in the public spotlight for more than three years because of the sexual abuse scandal involving former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

Moreau says in the aftermath of the Nassar scandal and the congressional and independent investigations that followed, it was clear significant change had to happen at the USOPC. But Moreau says that wasn't happening at an "appropriate pace."

"And I decided that if I don't

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