“Its well past time for the Executive Director of USA Swimming to take responsibility for allowing this unsafe culture to thrive. A new leadership team is required, one that empowers every local club to break up the power dynamic at the local level. Without enforcement and code of conduct mechanisms in place like that proposed by the Safe4Athletes system, then all the Vieth report recommendations are meaningless.”
Read the full essay by Katherine Starr, “The Vieth Report: Did It Hit the Mark?”, at http://safe4athletes.org/blog/item/66-the-vieth-report-by-usa-swimming-did-it-hit-the-mark-or-miss-all-together?.