Book Bonus: “Sex abuse and swimming: A dark history” (Salon’s Excerpt from ‘Undercover: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’)
August 3, 2024Flashback: 2015 Denver Post Op-Ed: ‘USA Swimming Reform Is a Job for Congress’
August 12, 2024PREVIOUSLY:
“Swimming Has a Dark Side of Abuse and Poor Oversight – Op-Ed in the Chicago Tribune,” July 28, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15680
“Book Bonus at Salon — “Sex abuse and swimming: A dark history,” August 4, https://concussioninc.net/?p=15701
PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE: “George Gibney in the U.S.,” https://concussioninc.net/?p=15371
Coloradans rightly take special pride in the accomplishments of American athletes at the Paris Olympics: Colorado Springs is the headquarters of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and of USA Swimming, national governing body of one of the marquee sports of the Summer Games.
Unfortunately, the Centennial State also has disproportionate ownership of the dark underside of this athletic and patriotic glory. That’s because of the widespread and persistent phenomenon of coach sexual abuse of kids in age-group programs under the aegis of USA Swimming.
The full and ugly truth is that the American youth sports system is a split screen. One side is in view and the other side is behind the scenes.
CONTINUED TODAY AT https://gazette.com/opinion/perspective-drowning-in-abuse/article_ef745b9c-54cc-11ef-ae03-a3a5044ef4cf.html
Irvin Muchnick’s book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published shortly by ECW Press (distributed by Simon & Schuster). Pre-order information is here. Muchnick will be appearing at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Aspen Grove-Littleton on September 13 and at the Barnes & Noble-Briargate in Colorado Springs on September 15.
