Very ballsy to go after the low hanging fruit.

Imagine getting ejected and fined because you got hit in the nuts

Woah woah woah, what are you... Communist?

Who’s chopping fucking onions?!

I mean, if you can’t trust young, male, adrenaline junkies to behave themselves who can you trust?

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Not to mention Jim Jordan who we decided to elect to office for some stupid fucking reason

Wait what was the sex trafficking in US gymnastics? I know about the Nassar coach guy was there actual trafficking in gymnastics?

Football situation was a bit different and still bad. Taggert had one intense day of workouts which caused injury to players. The track situation was constant abuse and overworking.

That seems to be a stretch of the legal boundaries around trafficking.

I just spoke about this with my partner earlier today. I wasn’t anywhere near elite level sports but played multiple sports since around 5 years old until graduating college, and we were often alone with grown men on the coaching staff in locker rooms, during practices or waiting for our parents to pick us up after practice, conditioning, games, PT and very often for away summer sports tournaments with the teams.

My parents were super supportive and one of them was pretty much always able to come to 99% of my games, I never had to wait for hours and hours to get picked up and I was still alone with several different male coaches fairly often. Thankfully, my coaches weren’t creeps and never tried anything but now that I’m an adult, I see how “easy” (and I hate that this is best word I could of) it would’ve been for a coach to be completely inappropriate, predatory and take advantage of the power dynamic.

Glad that the victims are able to speak out and hopefully get justice.

yes, some sports abuse scandals are nonsexual, and passed off as aggressive motivation or something like that

also, there a lot of people trying to make it, so the talent doesn't have as much leverage plus it can be a judgment call who makes it. perverts could abuse that discretion and pretend the decision was a subjective assessment of talent

“Oh he’s a little creepy and there’s some allegations but look how good the team is performing now which means more funding which means we keep our jobs so how about we cover this up”

There have been several abuse scandals in the NWSL (top US womens soccer league) as well. same shit different sport.

KEEP LOOKING AT BLOON

So in other words, we should fucking nationalize that shit since they clearly can’t handle it.

I feel like it’s important to mention that this problem seems to be substantially worse in the US than where I’m from. There have been vases of this, but not on this level as far as I know.. And this probably does relate as someone else mentioned to the fact that Team US is basically a business and not a government run organisation.

Also it was the Oregon Project, not University of Oregon Track

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Where do they find all the time to actually do the sex trafficking? Aren’t they busy coaching elite athletes?

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