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schema:articleBody	Nearly two dozen Greek gymnasts have alleged suffering decades of abuse and neglect "bordering on torture" at the hands of their coaches in a letter revealed Wednesday. The letter was sent this week to Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis by 22 female and male athletes, revealed by Greek daily EfSyn. It alleged "harsh and abusive" practices dating back to 1985 included forced fasting, psychological and physical punishment and sexual harassment. "For the first time, a cry of protest about psychological and physical abuse by a large number of gymnastics athletes is expressed en masse," the athletes' lawyer Alexandros Adamidis told the newspaper. There was no immediate response to the allegations from the gymnastics federation, which in March elected a new chairman for the first time in 14 years. The letter said coaches would slap, kick, shove and throw objects at athletes during training, even dragging some girls by the hair. On occasion, coaches would remove protective mats, causing injuries. Some of the athletes were forced to train whilst injured, the letter says. Disciplinary measures allegedly included forcing athletes to train in extreme temperatures and denying them toilet breaks. And because of strict weight requirements, some athletes starved themselves to the point of fainting, and resorted to secretly eating toothpaste and food leftovers, it said. Greece in recent months has been rocked by a wave of allegations of sexual abuse in the fields of arts, sport and education. More than three years after the #MeToo movement surfaced in the United States, the code of silence in Greece was broken in December by a two-time Olympic sailing medallist, Sofia Bekatorou. Bekatorou said that when she was 21 she was subjected to "sexual harassment and abuse" by a senior federation member in his hotel room, shortly after trials for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The man she accused, who was asked to resign his position in the Greek sailing federation, has denied any wrongdoing. jph/wdb/nr
schema:headline	Greek gymnasts allege decades of abuse by coaches
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