The United States women’s gymnastics team has no coordinator. It has no training center. It has lost its biggest sponsors. Its governing body is under investigation by multiple congressional committees and recently jettisoned its entire board of directors.

From the biggest sexual abuse case in sports, the institution of U.S.A. Gymnastics has emerged tattered and disgraced: censured for systematically failing to report predators, accused of fostering abusive training environments and condemned by many of its own stars.

But there are still gymnasts training 30 to 40 hours a week in pursuit of lifelong dreams: National team membership. World titles. The 2020 Olympics. They are distinct from their governing body. And they are worried that this reckoning, essential though it is, will hold them back in a sport whose window for success can be painfully short.

“We don’t have a year or two to settle down,” Margzetta Frazier, 18, a member of the national team, wrote this month in a tweet liked more than 1,200 times. “We cannot put our bodies on hold. Time is not on our side.”