IA - Gymnastics coach charged with sexually abusing girls and secretly recording others - IOWA CITY, Aug 2025

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Years after abuse reports, ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy is arrested by FBI

A coach at a center in Iowa that has trained Olympic champions is facing allegations that he abused young female gymnasts and secretly photographed others undressing at a prior job in Mississippi.

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Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls.

 

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Years after abuse reports, ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy is arrested by FBI

 

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Sean Gardner was arrested. That is his booking photo in the first post.

He worked at Chow's Gymnastics.

Years after abuse reports, ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy is arrested by FBI

A coach at a center in Iowa that has trained Olympic champions is facing allegations that he abused young female gymnasts and secretly photographed others undressing at a prior job in Mississippi.

apnews.com

 

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Sean Gardner was arrested. That is his booking photo in the first post.

He worked at Chow's Gymnastics.

Years after abuse reports, ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy is arrested by FBI

A coach at a center in Iowa that has trained Olympic champions is facing allegations that he abused young female gymnasts and secretly photographed others undressing at a prior job in Mississippi.

apnews.com

Thanks, corrected mine. So THAT guy is a gymnastics coach? In no universe ever would I look at that person and think, boy I bet he is one heck of a gymnastic coach. Sorry but that just surprises me.