Irv investigates scandals in sports -- chiefly, sexual abuse in Olympic sports youth programs and the public health hazards of football. Follow his blog for real-time reporting and commentary on these issues. Documents disclosed under Irv’s 2017 Freedom of Information Act settlement with the Department of Homeland Security exposed the quarter-century-long harboring in this country of former Irish Olympic swimming coach

George Gibney -- now the target of a federal government grand jury investigation (as is USA Swimming, the national sport governing body under the U.S. Olympic Committee). Details are in the ebook

THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents.

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April 26, 2021
April 26, 2021

Travis Tygart, Top U.S. Sports Anti-Drug Official, Was Involved in Covering Up Swimming Sex Scandals (full text from Salon)

Yesterday Salon published my article “Dead in the Water: The Tragic Human Cost of Swimming’s Abuse Scandals,” at https://www.salon.com/2021/04/25/dead-in-the-water-the-tragic-human-cost-of-swimmings-abuse-scandals/. The piece below was originally published at […]
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April 25, 2021
April 25, 2021

‘Dead in the Water: The Tragic Human Cost of Swimming’s Abuse Scandals’ — Today at Salon

On the afternoon of June 29, 2010, a pretty 16-year-old girl drove her car to the intersection of State Highways 116 and 117 in rural central […]
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April 18, 2021
April 18, 2021

Sexual Abuse Cases Close in on Olympic Sports Organizations (full text from Beyond Chron)

SEE ALSO: “Top U.S. sports official was involved in covering up swimming sex scandals,” April 15, https://www.salon.com/2021/04/15/top-us-sports-anti-drug-official-was-involved-in-covering-up-swimming-sex-scandals/ [originally published April 13 at https://beyondchron.org/sexual-abuse-cases-close-in-on-olympic-sports-organizations/] by Irvin Muchnick […]
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April 15, 2021
April 15, 2021

‘Top U.S. Sports Anti-Drug Official Was Involved in Covering Up Swimming Sex Scandals’ — Today at Salon

The celebrated head of the U.S. Olympic Committee agency that polices performance-enhancing drugs began his career in the Olympic bureaucracy as a lawyer managing investigations of […]
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April 13, 2021
April 13, 2021

‘Sexual Abuse Cases Close in on Olympic Sports Organizations’ — Today at Beyond Chron

Current headlines surrounding the Olympic movement involve its decision to press on with the reset Summer Games this year in Tokyo, despite a still untamed global […]
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April 5, 2021
April 5, 2021

Disabled Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman’s Fight With the Screen Actors Guild’s Pension Fund Drags Into Its Second Decade in Court

by Irvin Muchnick In Concussion Inc.’s more than a decade of coverage of under-the-radar cases of the sports and entertainment industries’ casual disregard for the health […]
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