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May 29, 2014

USA Today Covers Chuck Wielgus Swimming Hall of Fame Protest

“Citing abuse cases, swimmers protest Hall of Fame induction” http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2014/05/29/swimming-hall-of-fame-induction-protest/9738737/
May 29, 2014

International Swimming Hall of Fame CEO: Women’s Sports Foundation’s Anti-Chuck Wielgus Petition ‘Raises Disturbing, Grave Questions’

by Irvin Muchnick SwimSwam.com has a good, thorough account of the swimming sex abuse survivors’ petition protesting the International Swimming Hall of Fame induction of Chuck […]
May 29, 2014

Obama, Cheerleader-in-Chief, Holds Worthless ‘Concussion Summit’

Irvin Muchnick @irvmuch As expected, Obama’s concussion summit is a farce. “Too little info,” prez babbles, parroting NFL lobby line: more study, manufacture doubt. Up next, presumaby, […]
May 29, 2014

Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming’s Executive Director of a Generation of Sex Abuse Cover-Ups, Belongs in the Hall of Justice – Certainly Not the Hall of Fame

by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   For the last 24 hours we’ve been reporting on the petition, signed by legendary open-water swimmer Diana Nyad and […]
May 29, 2014

Big Names and Courageous Voices in Women’s Sports Foundation Campaign to Keep USA Swimming Chief Sex Abuse Cover-Up Artist Chuck Wielgus Out of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

For those of you who missed it, yesterday’s Women’s Sports Foundation petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame board of directors, calling for hall to […]
May 29, 2014

Today at Concussion Inc.: Complete Coverage of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Call to Rescind the International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction of USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus

May 28, 2014

Full Text of Sex Abuse Survivors’ and Women’s Sports Foundation’s Petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame Regarding USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus

Following is the full text of the petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame calling on it to rescind the induction of Chuck Wielgus, which […]
May 28, 2014

WOMEN’S SPORTS FOUNDATION COORDINATES SEX ABUSE VICTIMS’ PROTEST OF USA SWIMMING CHIEF CHUCK WIELGUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION

by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   In a campaign organized by the Women’s Sports Foundation at the request of many survivors of sexual abuse by […]
May 28, 2014

‘USA’ Swimming’s ‘United States’ Sports Insurance Company – in Barbados — Goes Into ‘Run-Off Mode’

by Irvin Muchnick   We’ve written extensively about USA Swimming’s captive reinsurance subsidiary, the United States Sports Insurance Company, domiciled in sunny Barbados. Offshore reinsurance is […]
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