Perspective: Another “report” on abuse in women’s sports. When is enough enough?
Gymnastics. Swimming. Skiing and snowboarding. Taekwondo. Equestrian, for God’s sake. Now we find that our singularly great national women’s soccer program was a hotbed of snarling crudified lowlifes such as Christy Holly, who during a film session stuck his unwanted hands down a player’s pants and up her shirt, and whose next job, judging by this report, should be cleaning the grease trap in a prison kitchen.
Second, Yates takes dead aim at the false front that is the U.S. Center for SafeSport — and it’s high time. SafeSport is a flimsy bill of goods the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee frantically sold to Congress in 2018 as a preventive measure against future abuse scandals. But as Yates establishes with breathtaking specificity, SafeSport is little more than another coverup operation, a litigation-avoidance ploy and bottomless pit in which to dump complaints and disguise inaction.
Our Olympic sports are not like our other leagues. They’re highly formative activities for our youngest athletes, and more broadly, they tangentially define standards for how we cultivate promise. They’re a kind of youth sports national resource. They also define ultimate success only one way: making the national team. This creates an inordinately unbalanced power dynamic in which every coach along the way can create a blockade for any reason, and it’s a magnet for potential abusers.
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