“As young swimmers and their families pursue their Olympic dreams, and our culture encourages young girls to play competitive sports, some adults take advantage. It’s this very troubling side of competitive swimming that Irvin Muchnick documents in his powerful new book, Underwater: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming And Around the Globe.”
Read the full review by Randy Shaw at Beyond Chron, the San Francisco alternative news site: https://beyondchron.org/new-book-exposes-ongoing-sexual-abuse-in-usa-swimming/
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.