Olympic figure skater Ashley Wagner, a 2016 world silver medalist and three-time U.S. national champion, told USA Today Sports that she was sexually assaulted in 2008 while at a party when she was 17 years old. She named her assailant as fellow figure skater John Coughlin, who was 22 at the time.
Coughlin, who died by suicide on Jan. 18, was accused by three others of sexual misconduct before his death. One of the accusers was Coughlin’s former skating partner Bridget Namiotka, who said he assaulted and controlled her over a period of two years. She was his partner while she was between the ages of 14 and 17.
“I was a young skater coming up through the ranks in a judged sport,” Wagner told USA Today. “I didn’t want to stir the …