Posted on 02/17/2018 3:38:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
100s of USA swimmers were sexually abused for decades and the people in charge knew and ignored it, investigation finds
For decades the sexual abuse of young athletes by their coaches lingered just beneath the surface in American swimming’s otherwise golden waters.
In 2005, USA Swimming president Ron Van Pool decided it was time to bring the issue to the surface.
Giving his annual State of Swimming address, Van Pool pushed for a more aggressive approach within the sport to taking on sexual abuse.
“USA Swimming is frightfully behind the curve in this process and there are those who would have us continue to lag,” Van Pool said.
The speech, however, didn’t make much of an impression with Chuck Wielgus, then in his eighth year as USA Swimming’s executive director.
“There was nothing that struck me,” Wielgus said later in deposition.
Van Pool’s warning certainly failed to spark a sense of urgency with Wielgus, the man in charge of the day-to-day operations of swimming’s national governing body at its Colorado Springs headquarters, or those around him at USA Swimming.
Five years later, Wielgus was asked in a deposition if, in the wake of Van Pool’s speech, if USA Swimming had taken any steps to bring the organization up to speed on the sexual abuse issue?
“No,” said Wielgus, who died last April after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.
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Pizzagate anyone?
All it took was one kid to tell his Dad and a quick “accidental drowning” of the offender would have happened.
Maybe this guy?
Not far away in homowood, sexual abuse of kids is considered an alternative lifestyle, particularly same sex abuse of boys; the perps march in pride parades. .
I know the world is full of evil people who let their ‘wieners’ (and Satan) rule their lives...
But I wonder how much of this is just #MeToo-ism, “Virtue Signaling” trying to join in on a trendy meme, rather than actually such a widespread problem
I personally know an Olympic hopeful that was impregnated by her coach when she was 17. She gave the baby up for adoption and is struggling with trying to right her life now. She is currently 21 .
“Golden waters “
Greg Louganis?
In the new era of sexual abuse, what was acceptable then in terms of physical therapy and why wasn't it considered abuse?
Maybe it's the new culture of wanting to be a victim of something...........
Old Scotty-boy's got a taste for the literary.
And maybe a few other odd appetites as well.
Probably, if only because there are some sports that don’t have high-powered, high-reward youth branches. Also, it seems possible that team sports would be less susceptible to this than individual sports, because of the young people’s being coached in groups.
This has to be hard on parents to let their kids follow their athletic dreams, but to be sodomized and raped in the process.
Outside of a parent being present virtually throughout, even to the point where they’d likely be denounced for hovering, it’s difficult to know the answer.
No wonder there are so many homos in the Olympics these days.
AFAIK, Curling is still celibate.
Do you think they didn’t know? They had the prospect of Olympic Gold dangled in front of them, the parents would just wink. and let it go.
Olympic gold is for the relatively few; potential college scholarships that save thousands for the average family with a proficient swimmer can save thousands of dollars. Good reason to look the other way.
Curling! Where even the women have big stones.
It may be disheartening, but it is. Just being cynically realistic. $40,000 per year can buy a lot of blindness.
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