Ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy arrested on child sexual abuse images charge

Sean Gardner accused of abusing gymnasts at Iowa clubSafeSport suspended coach in 2022 but case unresolvedFBI found hidden camera images of nude girls in MayThe US gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls. Continue reading...

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