Helen Kevric breaks her silence with an open look and without beating around the bush. Just before the home European Championships in Leipzig, the rising star speaks out for the first time about the gymnastics scandal in Stuttgart, which has thrown her young career into turmoil.
She is very sad that she is no longer allowed to work with her old coaches, she said in an interview with the German Press Agency. "I'm not a victim of abuse or anything else," says the 17-year-old after the podium training session. She is very sad that it has come to this now.
Since the end of last year, allegations of abuse have plagued German women's gymnastics, first at the Stuttgart Artistic Gymnastics Forum and later also at the Mannheim base. Several former and active female athletes denounced "systematic physical and mental abuse" and catastrophic circumstances, among other things. Two trainers were dismissed. The Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office are investigating. There are several cases of suspected coercion.
