It's been reported before, and no surprise that perverts with the power of selection have done this.
But the scale to which the Orange County Register's exclusive investigation, reported also by Deadspin, has gone to indicates that it appears that, much like USA Gymnastics, who won medals for USA Swimming and who didn't might well have been decided by which girls and women accepted groping, fondling, and rape -- and which said no.
And it needs to be said like that to properly put responsibility to these men who have all but assured that the USOC needs to be disbanded and whatever athletes not involved (in any and all sports for America) compete in Tokyo independently.
The Register article includes a speech by then-USA Swimming President Ron Pool, trying to urge this shit to stop.
This was 2005. According to documentation the California paper has collated, it has not only not stopped, it's gotten worse -- up to and including underage prospects, Olympians, etc.
The executive director, Chuck Wielgus, who thankfully is no longer with us, with how much is alleged he may have been the ringleader of this with respect to USA Swimming, was not touched by it in the least, and, five years later in a deposition, said nothing had been done.
Well, something needs to be done: The complete disqualification of the USOC for a systematic ignorance of, at minimum, state winked-and-nodded sexual abuse -- to the level the IOC needs to step in and create an Independent Athletes designation for 2020.
You really need to read this shit. Money was involved -- grants for facilities, money for a world-renowned coach who was sexually assaulting his charges... Any insurance local affiliated clubs had was through USA Swimming -- which basically required they allow this kind of bullshit!!!
USA Swimming paid almost $80,000 to try to stop a law allowing women and girls to sue their coaches and sanctioning bodies through California law!
At least 250 different coaches of nearly 600 different girls and women have been arrested in the time Wielgus was executive director.
It's time. The USA has got to go after PyeongChang.
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