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March 15, 2018

John Leonard, Chief Visa Fixer for the American Swimming Coaches Association — And Five-Star General of Chickenhawk Nation

by Irvin Muchnick   Craig Lord, who carries water for American Swimming Coaches Association executive director John Leonard at a website called SwimVortex, has not peeped […]
March 14, 2018

As Questions Persist Over Hire of George Gibney by North Jeffco Hurricanes — And the Role of the American Swimming Coaches Association — Let’s Review the 1995 and 2000 Reports on Gibney by Suburban Denver Police Departments

by Irvin Muchnick   The Apex Park and Recreation District in Arvada, Colorado, along with its aquatic center tenant, USA Swimming’s North Jeffco Hurricanes age-group swim […]
March 13, 2018

North Jeffco (Colorado) Hurricanes’ Stonewalling of How They Came to Hire the Rapist Former Head Coach of the Irish Olympic Swimming Team = A Story Guaranteed Not to End Well

by Irvin Muchnick   In 1992 someone in America sent George Gibney, the former Irish Olympic swimming coach, a letter that stated, “Dear George, [REDACTED] would […]
March 12, 2018

Co-Head Coaches of North Jeffco Hurricanes — USA Swimming’s Club in Arvada, Colorado — Are Mum on Circumstances of the 1990s Hire of George Gibney, Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in Global Sports History

by Irvin Muchnick   Following American Swimming Coaches Association executive director John Leonard’s sudden and unsupported assertion that he had blocked George Gibney from getting hired […]
March 11, 2018

As We Watch U.S. Center for SafeSport Boot Up Solutions — or Simply Reboot the USA Swimming Safe Sport Cover-Up — Remember This: Child Sex Abuse Is Not an ‘Athletes’ Rights Issue’

by Irvin Muchnick   We’re at a particular story arc in the coach sexual abuse crimes of youth sports where someone like myself, who has spent […]
March 9, 2018

What American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard Is Now Saying About ASCA and George Gibney Doesn’t Add Up

by Irvin Muchnick   In the course of what American Swimming Coaches Association sources are calling a panicked reaction to the account of a former employee, […]
March 8, 2018

Podcast Interview With Chris DeSantis Is Up

“The Journalist Who Took On Swimming” is what the generous Coach DeSantis titles it: http://chrisdcoach.com/podcasts/2018/3/8/g3iq7r0z3zgp4lfpo6keun9117zp2y
March 8, 2018

USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’s Email Response to Hearing of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming and Abuse by Coach Scott MacFarland: ‘My Gosh … I Am Copying Our Legal Counsel …’

Here is the full text of an April 22, 2010, email exchange between Sara Ehekircher and the late Chuck Wielgus, executive director of USA Swimming.   […]
March 7, 2018

A Very Nice Note by Good-Guy Swim Coach Chris DeSantis

Chris DeSantis, one of the swimming coaches who gets it, put up the piece linked below prior to interviewing me for his podcast. The forum was […]
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