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Serena tells women … ‘Don’t wait.’
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Category: ethics
coaches defending themselves from #METOO accusations
Most accusers are being truthful. Well over 90%, I’m thinking.
But there are a FEW cases of wrongful accusation.
Dina Bell-Laroche of the Canadian Sport Law & Strategy Group:
In any dispute, including sport disputes, once an individual is charged with an allegation, they are entitled to both natural justice and procedural fairness, regardless of the allegation.
We are unfortunately seeing sport organizations jump to conclusions and sometimes rush to sanction individuals before taking the necessary steps to ensure that the individuals are afforded natural justice and procedural fairness.
With this being said, there may be specific scenarios where it is socially and morally responsible to suspend an individual during the disciplinary process. …
Click through to see advice on how we should be handling accusations.
emotional abuse in Gymnastics
In this post a former British national squad gymnast reflects on her former coach.
The under-reported risk for competitive gymnasts is psychological abuse.
Anonymous:
Looking back over my time with Coach is something I find difficult. I know not all my memories are bad but those are the ones that most easily come to mind. …
But, at this point the good days for me far outweighed the not so good days and I enjoyed being there, I enjoyed working with Coach, in fact I would go as far as to say I loved her. …
… after a while no matter what I did it just wasn’t good enough, my name was now added to the blacklist. It became a matter of survival, be the one who least upset Coach during a session, praying Coach would take her wrath out on anyone but me. …
It was only Coach’s talent that would get me to the Olympics, not my own and if I moved to another coach my Olympic dream would be over. In retrospect, I can see how naïve I was to believe this, yet this haunted me throughout my career and I gave up on myself once I left coach, believing my dreams and goals were shattered.
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coach Elizabeth Brubaker suspended
I’m surprised to hear that coach Elizabeth Brubaker has been suspended by Gymnastics Canada after receiving “a number of written formal complaints… that outlined alleged violations of Gymnastics Canada’s ethics and code of conduct policies over an extended period of time a number of years ago.”
interview with Tom Forster
Women’s high-performance team coordinator is not a full-time job.
The process for Doha was successful so Tom so far plans to continue with that approach into the future.
Read the interview.
new documentary – Broken Trust: Ending Athlete Abuse
Filmmaker and journalist Jill Yesko is fund-raising to complete a planned documentary. She represented the United States in the 1983 World University Games in cycling.
Broken Trust gives voice to the courageous women and men who have dared to speak up against abuse on all levels. Told through interviews with Olympic and national-class athletes, coaches and experts, Broken Trust looks at how and why abuse takes place and what needs to be done to stop it.
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keeping kids in Sport longer
Sports Girls Play has some advice.
Gillette’s #MeToo ad
Good move, Gillette.
On the other hand, it could have been done with a little more subtlety. 😀
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Rhonda Faehn hired / fired by Michigan
The move came after several members of the Board of Regents said she should be let go.
“I do not support the hiring of Rhonda Faehn, and believe the university should end its relationship with her,” Regent Mark Bernstein told the Free Press prior to the firing.
I’ll bet she wishes she’d stayed at Florida.
USAG priorities ☹️
I’ve not yet seen any response from USA Gymnastics on this.
#disappointed
For example, Alan Bower:
Bower had the financial support he needed to continue training for Tokyo 2020. As a non-NCAA member of the U.S. national senior men’s team, Bower received a $1,875 monthly stipend from USA Gymnastics …
“Allan really relies on that check to pay his rent and continue to train for the Olympics,” Williams said Thursday. “He was deferring medical school until after 2020, but if he doesn’t get paid soon he can’t pay his rent and he’s probably just going to go to medical school because he can’t afford to sit around and expect payments and then not get those.”
USA Gymnastics has also not paid bonuses to coaches for the men’s and women’s U.S. teams that competed at the World Championships last fall.
USA Gymnastics has not paid U.S. men’s national team members this month
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