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Holy Crap-US Gymnastics Dirty secret

Just imagine all of the athletes that never came forward. Shocking stuff.
 
Why am I not surprised that there are pedophiles coaching youth sports?
 
Why am I not surprised that there are pedophiles coaching youth sports?

well we don't get many claims of harassment in say small bore rifle, archery, skeet etc

one of the main reasons why gymnastics and swimming are so littered with this is based on the power coaches have

in some sports-its purely objective who makes Junior or senior teams. In Gymnastics, its rather subjective. the scoring is subjective and as we saw in the last Olympics, the top five scorers at the trials were not the five who went to Rio. with that sort of power, coaches are more able to abuse the athletes. And cute little girls and young women in leotards are more vulnerable than say 220 pound boxers or some guy holding a 12 Gauge Beretta shotgun. Swimming -swimmers depend on coaches to be placed on relay teams etc. its also a sport where the athletes have to start at a very early age-like gymnastics. You really don't have kids training full time in most sports at grade school levels but swimming, gymnastics and (another one that has harassment issues) ice skating you do.
 
'IndyStar' investigation finds 368 gymnasts alleged sexual abuse in past 20 years - AOL News

I actually knew of this for a while. US Gymnastics and Swimming are the two NGBs which have caused Safe Sport (sexual harassment and bullying training) to become mandatory for all NGBs.

From the article:

"In the past two decades, at least 368 underage gymnasts may have been sexually abused while USA Gymnastics either purposefully covered it up or turned a blind eye, according to a nine-month investigation by the IndyStar.

The outlet "scoured thousands of pages of public records" spanning 20 years to identify hundreds of victims from every level of competition, beginner to Olympian. The youngest recorded was six years old."

Shocking!
 
From the article:

"In the past two decades, at least 368 underage gymnasts may have been sexually abused while USA Gymnastics either purposefully covered it up or turned a blind eye, according to a nine-month investigation by the IndyStar.

The outlet "scoured thousands of pages of public records" spanning 20 years to identify hundreds of victims from every level of competition, beginner to Olympian. The youngest recorded was six years old."

Shocking!

I am a certified coach in two NGBs. We have to do what is called "Safe Sport" which is basically an online court and test on sexual harassment, bullying etc. having a background in Title VII litigation, I was pretty familiar with most of the stuff but the fact remains, I am convinced most of the coaches who have done this KNOW DAMN WELL they are wrong. The purpose of the training is to allow other coaches, parents, trainers etc to spot signs that an athlete is being harassed
 
What do the letters NGB stand for?
 
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