Ashley Wagner, skating champion said she was sexually assaulted by John Coughlin at 17
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An Olympic bronze medalist and US national champion in figure skating, Ashley Wagner chose to speak up and told that she was sexually assaulted by ex-figure skater John Coughlin; when she was 17 and he was 22. Coughlin killed himself at 33, a day after he was suspended from US Figure Skating by the US Center for SafeSport, which investigates all forms of abuse in sport. Coughlin had denied the wrongdoings.