“I feel really good about the history of U.S. Figure Skating and what we’ve done as far as our athlete protections,” Anderson said. Still, he acknowledged that the effort in Olympic sports to protect athletes was an evolving process and that “obviously, Nassar put a spotlight on it. It’s a focus now.”

And skating insiders say there is plenty more work to do, especially in situations where adults and children are together extensively.

Craig Maurizi, a prominent coach who in 1999 accused his former coach of sexually abusing him, said that a number of people in skating can seem to be “perpetually 16 years old.” Though he was a friend of Coughlin’s and his wife was Coughlin’s agent, Maurizi said he welcomed Wagner’s decision to come forward.

“This culture needs to be fixed,” Maurizi said. “People need to draw a thick line between overage and underage. That line didn’t exist before.”

Wagner wrote that Coughlin, then 22, assaulted her while she slept after a party that took place during a figure skating training camp in Colorado Springs in 2008. As she slept at the home where the party took place, Wagner wrote, Coughlin climbed into her bed and began to kiss her neck and grope her. She was fearful and began to cry, she wrote. After several minutes she grabbed Coughlin’s hand and told him to stop. He did.

“All of this happened over the period of about five minutes,” Wagner wrote. “That is such a small amount of time, but it’s haunted me ever since.”

As a naïve teenager at a time before the #MeToo movement, Wagner wrote, she did not understand the meaning of consent. She also believed she might have misinterpreted what happened. And as an emerging skater, she worried about the effect of speaking up in a sport that relies on subjective judging. So she told two people close to her what had happened but, until Thursday, no one else.