Will the Michael Phelps Broadside Against USA Swimming Leadership Evolve to Include Coach Sexual Abuse?
August 18, 2025International Swimming Hall of Fame Aquatics Complex – Capital of Historical Coach Sexual Abuse Scandals in South Florida – Seems Headed for a Corrupt Public-Private Redevelopment Project
August 31, 2025Perhaps unsurprisingly, on 14 August, the media relations department of America’s ‘newspaper of record’ declined the invitation to tell Village that there will be any addition to its coverage four years ago of an Irish coach who had attained a dubious diversity lottery visa – which a federal judge suggested had been facilitated by the American Swimming Coaches Association – and who thereby traversed the country across three decades, despite having been rejected for citizenship. The reason being that he had lied on his application about his prior criminal indictment in Ireland.
At least the New York Times is consistent. In March 2024, a 277-page congressional commission report, co-authored by sports law experts and Olympic legends such as track and field’s Edwin Moses, recommended restructuring the American youth sports system to stem the scourge of coach abuse. The Times has yet to inform readers of that report’s release and content, either.
CONTINUED TODAY AT IRELAND’S VILLAGE MAGAZINE, https://villagemagazine.ie/coach-abuse-knows-no-borders/
