Pressure growing on new USA Gymnastics chief

Olympic champion Aly Raisman slammed USA Gymnastics' choice of interim president as pressure mounted on the embattled organization to rethink the apppointment.

In a series of posts on Twitter on Monday, Raisman criticised the decision to hire former Republican US Congresswoman Mary Bono to take over at the helm of the scandal-plagued governing body.

Raisman said Bono's association with law firm Faegre Baker Daniels -- which advised USA Gymnastics during the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal -- made her position untenable.

The 24-year-old 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist accused Faegre Baker Daniels of helping "cover up" Nassar's crimes before the scandal erupted into public view.

"My teammates & I reported Nassar's abuse to USAG in 2015," Raisman wrote.

"We now know USOC & lawyers at Faegre Baker Daniels (Mary Bono's firm) were also told then, yet Nassar continued to abuse children for 13 months!?
- Biles upset at Bono -
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Unfortunately had these shoes in my bag. Luckily I had a marker in my bag too...." wrote Bono, who also re-tweeted a response that said "#BoycottNike." In response, the Nike-sponsored Biles tweeted on Saturday: "*mouth drop* ... don't worry, it's not like we needed a smarter usa gymnastics president, or any sponsors or anything."