The U.S. Olympic Committee, the national snowboarding body and the former team coach conspired to engage in sex trafficking, enabling and covering up repeated acts of misconduct, three former snowboarders - including 2 Alaskans - are claiming in a lawsuit.
Alaskan Rosey Fletcher clears a gate during the women's snowboard parallel giant slalom race at the Turin Winter Olympic Games in Bardonecchia, Italy, on Feb. 23, 2006. The bronze medalist filed a lawsuit accusing former snowboard coach Peter Foley of sexually assaulting, harassing and intimidating members of his team for years, while the organizations overseeing the team did nothing to stop it. Fletcher is a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits filed in U.S.
“The system is focused on money and medals,” said Sigrid McCawley, the lead attorney representing the three snowboarders. “It’s not focused on protecting these athletes.” “Any allegations of sexual misconduct being made against him are false,” Howard Jacobs, the attorney for Foley, told ESPN at the time.Jacobs and spokespersons for the USOPC and USSS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
She said she was “completely shocked” but did not say anything. On a later occasion, she said Foley tried to “kiss me and pull me into the woods” at a post-race event. Although sex trafficking generally is distilled into a financial transaction — arranging sex for money — McCawley noted the term “commercial sex act” is defined in Section 1591 of the United States Code as a sex act in exchange for “anything of value.”
In a separate lawsuit, also filed Thursday, former USSS communications staffer Lindsey Nikola, alleged Foley coerced her into posing nude and, at another time, crawled into her bed and groped her. After she confronted him, the suit alleges, he retaliated in part by ensuring she would not accompany the snowboard team to the Olympics.
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