Who in their right mind would believe anything Gold Medalist has to say at this point. They were already untruthful about the dating. It looks like they want to handle this privately to conceal the truth and to control the narrative.
Didn't he originally say they didn't date at all? Now they did date but he waited for her to be of legal age. Right. They started "dating" when she was an adult, but he started talking to her when she was a minor. It's creep behavior. A person who keeps changing their story isn't credible.