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\nby Irvin Muchnick<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Congressman Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the committee’s bipartisan leadership have announced their intention to hold a hearing on sexual abuse in sports programs. The announcement, at <\/span>https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/news\/press-release\/bipartisan-cmte-leaders-investigate-sexual-abuse-organized-sports\/<\/span><\/a>, specifically cites USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Michigan State University, USA Swimming, and USA Taekwondo.<\/span><\/p>\n

USA Swimming is the program rife with abuse that is most familiar to readers of Concussion Inc. The committee leadership’s letter to this organization seems to be referring specifically to athletes who cited inaction, cover-up, and perjury by the group’s executive director, Chuck Wielgus, in a 2014 petition that resulted in blocking his induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame induction. (Wielgus held onto his $900,000-a-year job all the way up to his death last year.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, 2014 was also the year that now-retired Congressman George Miller, ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, wrapped up a tepid and ineffectual 18-month investigation of USA Swimming. Let’s hope Congressman Walden fares better.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some links to key articles from this quarter:<\/span><\/p>\n

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How the USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Scandals Became a Federal Case<\/a><\/h2>\n
Published October 7th, 2014<\/div>\n
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Congress to USA Swimming’s Abuse Survivors and Supporters: Go Take a Flying Leap Off the George Miller Bridge<\/a><\/h2>\n
Published June 30th, 2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Can Senator Dianne Feinstein Find Success on Oversight of Olympic Sports Body Sex Abuse, Where Congressman George Miller Failed?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Published February 21st, 2017<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Congressman George Miller´s Failed 2013-14 Investigation of USA Swimming Sex Abuse: Comprehensive Chronological Links<\/a><\/h2>\n
Published February 26th, 2017<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also see“Should USA Swimming Go Down?”, the 2014 interview that reporting partner Tim Joyce I did with Outside<\/em>magazine:<\/strong>https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/1927681\/should-usa-swimming-go-down<\/a>.<\/strong><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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