involved in the sport who have revealed a culture of fear in which the welfare of gymnasts was ignored in the pursuit of success. british gymnastics has apologised to the athletes affected and praised the bravery of those who spoke up. 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks reports. for the last two years, british gymnasts have been telling us of a sport where they say mistreatment was the norm. i would absolutely describe it as a culture of abuse. where weight was heavily controlled. how would you feel if you were 21 years old being given ultimately a baby plate to eat off of? and where hard training often meant ignoring painful injuries. i heard a click in my fault. i was told to carry on as if nothing happened. i couldn t carry on. it was up to me to ring my dad to pick me up to take me to the hospital where they told me i broke my foot in four places.
this is bbc news. the headlines: an independent investigation into allegations of mistreatment in british gymnastics finds that physical and emotional abuse was systemic during a 12 year period up to 2020. i would absolutely describe it as a culture of abuse. i was told to carry on as if i didn t know what happened, but i couldn t carry on. it was up to me to ring my dad to pick me up and take me to the hospital, where they told me i bit my foot in four places. the bravery of the athletes coming forward has to be changed. those stories have been hurt and action must be taken to accept the failures of the past are being publicly recognised. boris johnson s former ethics
back does his mistreatment of women go and where is he now? we have traced him to another country. after leaving the uk, while still under counterterror investigation, he began working for a foreign intelligence agency. before beth, he met ruth, not her real name, abroad. violence, always violence. their relationship violence, always violence. their relationship was violence, always violence. their relationship was horrifying. - violence, always violence. their relationship was horrifying. he i relationship was horrifying. he started to tell me things that no human started to tell me things that no human being would be able to get over, human being would be able to get over. such human being would be able to get over, such as swimming in a river of blood, over, such as swimming in a river of blood. eating over, such as swimming in a river of blood, eating children s flesh. i had to blood, eating children s flesh. i had to listen to this every day. he said he had to list
even though it was clear i had tried to warn him that something was wrong beforehand. so i think he was trying to distance himself from responsibility for what he had done. there was no offer of medical treatment. no one called my parents. i think i ended up having to limp to the change room myself and call my parents to take me to the hospital. it was made very, very clear that we would be in significant trouble if we told our parents what was going on. so, my parents really, truly didn t have a good understanding of what was going on until i quit. what kind of impact has that experience had on you, long term? both physically and psychological it s been damaging. i have had physical debilitating physical back pain since i was 14. psychologically, though, there s long-term impacts as well. so, i don t weigh myself. i can never get on a scale. even if i m at the doctor i ask
there was no offer of medical treatment, no one called my parents. i think i ended up having to limp to the change room myself and call my parents to take me to the hospital. it was made very, very clear that we would be in significant if we told our parents what was going on. so my parents really truly didn t have a good understanding of what was going on until i quit. what kind of impact has that experience had on you long-term? both physically and psychologically, it s been damaging. i have had physical debilitating physical back pain since i was 14. psychologically, though, there is long-term impacts as well. so i i don t weigh myself. i can never get on a scale. even if i m at the doctor, i ask them not to tell me what the number is or i don t look at the numbers because i know that s going to cause me to spiral into disordered eating.