April 26, 2021
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 […]
April 25, 2021
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 […]
April 18, 2021
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 […]
April 15, 2021
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 […]
April 13, 2021
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 […]
April 5, 2021
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 […]
March 9, 2021
The Colorado Springs Gazette, which on February 28 published on its front page an article headlined “Podcasts stir new sex abuse allegations against former Irish Olympic […]
February 27, 2021
The American immigration and criminal status of a former Irish Olympic swimming head coach, who moved to the U.S. after being charged with dozens of instances […]
February 21, 2021
A former rugby coach and assistant headmaster, John McClean, was sentenced to prison this week for his sexual abuse, across 17 years, of 23 boys at […]
February 5, 2021
An adaptation of our article here yesterday.
February 4, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick Though I have sharply criticized the thoroughness, as well as the lowest-common-denominator quality, of the BBC / Second Captains podcast Where Is George […]
January 31, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick Michael Henry, who held various nebulous positions at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s nascent and corrupt U.S. Center for SafeSport, and left the organization […]
January 18, 2021
by Irvin Muchnick Jumping off from last year’s George Gibney podcast by Ireland’s Second Captains in association with the BBC, the New York Times has weighed […]
January 8, 2021
Judge Jeffrey S. Brand has signed off on the final judgment of Muchnick v. University of California Board of Regents, following the conclusion of settlement negotiations […]
December 16, 2020
by Irvin Muchnick Two months ago, Katie Strang of The Athletic broke the story of a serious data breach at the U.S. Center for Safe Sport, […]