<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A gymnastics coach will face court tomorrow after being accused of sexually touching a child.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Coach Wei Jun Lee runs a Gold Coast gymnastics studio that has now been closed as he faces the serious criminal charge in Sydney.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 32-year-old was extradited on the charge of sexually touching a child between the age of 10 and 16 at a Rooty Hill hotel in April.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/blue-mountains-australia-police-incident/5866891d-cd2f-49b3-9bda-1df08390a302"><strong><span>Three people found unresponsive, two with stab wounds, in Blue Mountains home</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The alleged crime took place two days before Sydney hosted a state championships in gymnastics.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lee faced a magistrate on Friday and was refused bail.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He will be up again at Blacktown Local Court tomorrow.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/gymnastics-coach-wei-jun-lee-court/ffe53f68-d079-4b81-95d7-957b8942fac5" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gymnastics Australia said Skybound Gymnastics Club in Burleigh Heads had been closed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Gymnastics Australia and Gymnastics Queensland are aware of an active police investigation involving a coach who is also a club owner, and who has been arrested," Gymnastics Australia said, in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This matter is being managed by the police and we will not be providing further comment on the investigation."</span></div></div>
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