Gym Jordan in the hot seat again

 

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Jim Jordan, a former Ohio State assistant wrestling coach who is now a U.S. congressman, has long denied any knowledge of the decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by Richard Strauss during his tenure as an Ohio State physician.

But "Surviving Ohio State," a new documentary produced by George Clooney that aired on HBO June 17, alleges Jordan and many other coaches and administrators within Ohio State were very much aware.

Multiple wrestlers and a referee told filmmakers that Jordan was aware of Strauss' abuse. Jordan declined to be interviewed for the documentary.

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[Dan Ritchie, who wrestled at Ohio State from 1988 to 1992,] recalled a conversation where Jordan said he wouldn't allow Strauss to abuse him like others had.

Ritchie claimed Jordan, an assistant coach at the time, told wrestlers, "If he ever did that to me, I'd snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood."

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Frederick Feeney, a wrestling referee from 1988 to 2024, [...] told filmmakers that he told both Jordan and former Buckeyes wrestling coach Russ Hellickson about [an encounter with Strauss]. But Feeney said Jordan shrugged off the incident and said: "It's Strauss, you know what he does."

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Former wrestler Adam DiSabato told filmmakers that when Jordan was accused of knowing about Strauss' abuse, the congressman called him and asked him to stand up for him. Jordan, DiSabato said, cried on the phone and asked him to say publicly that he had no knowledge of the abuse.

  Columbus Dispatch

No doubt.

Jordan made it through earlier reports of the scandal.  Will he make it through again?