Feb 1st.
National Girls and Women in Sports Day appreciates the achievements of female coaches and athletes and acknowledges the role of sports to help unlock the boundless potential of women.
U.S. National Girls & Women in Sports Day
Category: ethics
sexual offences in CAN sports
It’s been four years since a CBC News and Sports investigation revealed more than 200 coaches — mostly at the local level — had been charged with a sexual offence against athletes under their care since 1998. Since then, CBC has found 83 other coaches have been charged or convicted across multiple sports, provinces and jurisdictions. …
Calls for an independent inquiry into safe sport — which, broadly, guards against everything from sexual abuse, poor parental behaviour, bullying, concussions and toxic culture — have recently grown louder. The latest came from dozens of Canadian sport scholars who, in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, cited “widespread reports of sexual, physical and psychological abuse of athletes throughout the nation’s sport system.”
Gymnasts have been among the most vocal. …
Canada spends millions on safe sport. It’s not going where it’s needed
This story is part of a continuing investigation by CBC News and Sports into abuse in amateur sport in Canada. Read all of the reporting here.
OSU Pride leo
Abliazin, Nagorny, Belyavskiy, Dalaloyan are pro-war
This would seem to eliminate them from any consideration of competing Paris Olympics — even if Russia does qualify a men’s team.
Proud of UCLA
The best and brightest Americans who make me hopeful for a future where everyone has equal opportunity are students.
California has been the most progressive State.
I like the Bruins theme of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as it includes anyone who identifies as any kind of minority.
Kirsty Duncan: Canada needs a National Public Inquiry into Sport
Kirsty Duncan is a former Canadian Minister of Sport and served as deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons.
Kirsty was a former gymnast who felt fat shamed when she was competing.
On LinkedIn she listed 20 Twenty Reasons Why We Need a National Public Inquiry into Sport.
I’ll list a few here. Click through to see the rest.
- Safe sport should always be the primary goal of every sport organization and coach, ahead of winning games, tournaments, or medals.
- Stories of abuse, harassment, and sexual assault circulated for years but some sport organizations failed to hear, see, and act.
- Emotional, psychological, physical, verbal, and sexual abuse of young athletes abound across many sports, and some abusers have not been held to account.
- There is a compelling precedent for holding a national public inquiry, the Commission of Inquiry into the Use of Drugs and Banned Practices Intended to Increase Athletic Performance.
training in bombed Ukraine
USAG Daniels report 2017
Right now in Canada we’re comparing the recent McLaren Report against other similar reports from other nations.
From McLaren, GymCan will be putting together ACTION targets in order to make Gymnastics training safer for all participants.
In 2017, coach Jim Holt reviewed the USAG Daniels Report which arrived with ACTION target recommendations.
I’m taking a look back at Jim’s report in order to assess the upcoming GymCan targets. Especially the methodology of reporting instances of abuse that fall short of calling the police or child protection.
It should be simple. But fair.
Victims should feel confident their complaint will be handled promptly and in confidence. Those accused should feel they are innocent until proven guilty.
Check out Jim’s 2017 report for yourself. It’s a free download.
2023 European Games – NO Russia
Poland will host European Games with 10 sports — but no Gymnastics — June 21 to July 2, 2023.
Via Google Translate.
The organizers of the 2023 European Games in Poland will not allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate, despite the position of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC has previously announced its readiness to consider the issue of admitting Russians and Belarusians to the Asian Games and giving them the opportunity to qualify for the Olympics in Paris.
Florida athletes: when was your last period?
Did the Florida High School Athletics Association (FHSAA) vote to recommend that student athletes be required to turn in their menstrual histories to schools?
The FHSAA’s Board of Directors is set to render a decision on the proposal in February.
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