well that we had in the piece that painkillers and stuff being given out freedon on the german gymnastics federation told me you know if you're in my and you need friends from approval for things like that clearly that was not happening and so what sort of response has been for the has been an element of pushback as well because some people would say this is elite sports it's not going to be easy you going to have to make sacrifices and complaining when athletes are bringing home medals. rewards in fact. the senator and candidates he said they speak on magazine when they made their allegations gymnastics is no child policy he said in other words it's not supposed to be easy he actually went comments to us when we contacted him he said the investigation was ongoing so he can say anything about specific allegations but when i put some of this today i mean really they said yeah we made sacrifices we trained 30 hours a week we were able to see our friends we missed out on social occasions but where we draw the line is these kind of unhealthy training methods and this physical and mental abuse that's whe

german gymnastics federation they say that of all the allegations including those made by name in ruby this is what they've also had to say it is important that the case is independently investigate it if the investigation shows that structural changes have to be made the d.t.b. were actively addressed them we do not accept any crimes of. encouraging other gymnasts to contact if they also have problems reports i think given everything that's happening with this story now there will be more gymnasts moved to come forward in germany well these allegations come in something that's been a watershed year really for gymnastics on a whole yeah indeed it has i mean these allegations coming out now in germany follow a host of allegations coming from all over the world and they were prompted really by. a documentary on netflix called athlete now this kind of any told the story of a brave gymnasts in the united states coming forward to get justice against the disgraced u.s. team gymnastics. he was eventually found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of gymnasts he will never now the prison and as

kind of questions asked of them now we've obviously put some of these allegations to the german gymnastics federation this saying taking all the seriously including those made by naomi and ruby they also say it's important that the cases that independently investigate it if the investigation show that structural changes have to be made be will actively address them we do not accept any climates of fear in our gyms now they are encouraging other gymnasts to contact them if they have a problem because i feel like this is going to get bigger this story the more this comes out to be moved to come forward also i have to add the sports committee of the german parliament is also keeping an eye on this and they will scrutinize the matzoh for the next year and this is been quite a year in the us 6 yeah exactly gymnastics is kind of the latest to have these allegations come out following a wave of other allegations this year in the summer specifically and that coincided with the release of a netflix film called athlete now this was all about the downfall of the disgraced u.s. team gymnastics. the brave gymnast

questioning judgements now we've obviously had to put some of these allegations to the german gymnastics federation they say that all the allegations including those made by name in ruby this is what they've also had to say it is important that the case is. investigates it if the investigation shows that structural changes have to be made the d.t.b. were actively addressed them we do not accept any crimes of. encouraging other gymnasts to contact if they also have problems reports i think given everything that's happening with this story now there will be more gymnasts moved to come forward in germany well these allegations come in something that's been a watershed year really for genetics on a whole yeah indeed it has i mean these allegations coming out now in germany follow a host of allegations coming from all over the world they were prompted really by not documentary on netflix called athlete now this kind of really told the story of a brave gymnasts in the united states coming forward to get justice against the disgraced u.s. teams and. he was eventually found guilty of sexually abusing hundr