Washington Post Reports on How Little Has Changed at USA Gymnastics, Years after the Larry Nassar Scandals. You Can Substitute ‘USA Swimming’ for ‘USA Gymnastics’
July 23, 2024Chicago Tribune Editorial Page Echoes My Sunday Op-Ed Call for Structural Reforms of Youth Sports Programs to Address Coach Sexual Abuse
July 29, 2024Later this week we will have an important footnote to Concussion Inc. readers about the Chicago Tribune‘s removal from this article of references to George Gibney and Bob Bowman. Those deletions will be restored in the “director’s cut” version that will be published here next month.
“Hundreds of millions of viewers around the world are enjoying the Paris Olympics. Swimming is one of the marquee sports of the Summer Games, and American viewers are lapping up the feats of Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel and others. The leap-year fortnight spectacle of the Olympics is really the only window of focused public attention on this niche sport. Behind the scenes of these feel-good televised packages of athletic and patriotic glory, another story plays out. What America’s sports families don’t know about their country’s competitive youth swimming programs can hurt them and scar their kids for life….”
CONTINUED TODAY AT THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE (behind a paywall)
UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published shortly after the Paris Olympics by ECW Press (distributed by Simon & Schuster). Pre-order links from many outlets are here.
