January 2018 – Page 2 – Concussion Inc.

January 17, 2018

US Speedskating Bad Actor Michael Crowe Is Shelved by Speed Skating Canada

by Irvin Muchnick Virtually on the eve of the opening of the Winter Olympics, Speed Skating Canada has launched an investigation of national team head […]

January 16, 2018

Helping Figures Like George Gibney Cross National Borders Is at the Heart of the American Swimming Coaches Association’s Business Model

Plaintiff Irvin Muchnick is a freelance journalist investigating sexual abuse in amateur sports. Quite naturally, he wants information about Gibney. See Muchnick Decl. (dkt. 17-1) ¶ […]

January 15, 2018

Rapist Former Irish Olympic Swimming Coach George Gibney Has to Be on USA Swimming’s Secret ‘Flagged’ List — That Is, Unless the List Doesn’t Even Exist. Congress Could Tell Us.

by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday Concussion Inc. published the 2010 deposition of Chuck Wielgus, during which the since-deceased chief executive of USA Swimming allowed that “Yeah, […]

January 14, 2018

‘Yeah, I Think I’ve Heard the Name’ — What the Late, Disgraced USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus Said About George Gibney in His 2010 Deposition in a Lawsuit by a Victim of Coach Sex Abuse

by Irvin Muchnick A member of the Irish legislature, Maureen O’Sullivan, has contacted Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Jackie Speier for assistance in the campaign […]

January 13, 2018

Flashback: Muchnick’s 2015 Denver Post Op-Ed, ‘USA Swimming’s Wielgus Has No Credibility — Reform Is a Job For Congress’

On Sunday, Concussion Inc. will publish what Chuck Wielgus — the disgraced USA Swimming chief executive who died in office last year — said about rapist […]

January 11, 2018

‘I Don’t Know George Gibney and He Has Never Been a Member of Florida Swimming’

by Irvin Muchnick Reverberating the rhetoric of denial now evident at both USA Gymnastics and USA Swimming, the head of one of the national swim […]

January 4, 2018

Ireland’s Broadsheet Echoes Our Call: FOIA Documents Show ‘There Is No Excuse’ For Further Irish-U.S. Inaction on George Gibney

This latest is an excellent overview that also embeds the images of several key documents released through our Freedom of Information Act case: ‘There Is No […]

January 3, 2018

Ireland’s Murphy Inquiry Said George Gibney’s Victims ‘Were Vindicated’ by the Garda’s Evidence. But There’s Vindication and There’s Vindication.

by Irvin Muchnick As Irish politician Maureen O’Sullivan reaches out to sister American legislators for justice for George Gibney’s many victims and for accountability for […]

January 2, 2018

Flashback: USA Swimming’s Offshore Reinsurance Scam Exemplified the Globalization of Youth Sports Sex Abuse Cover-Up

As the campaign heats up to extradite and bring to justice former Irish Olympic swim coach George Gibney, and to hold accountable the enabling of Gibney […]