The problem of sexual assault in youth sports is more like a DNA brand than the recognized crisis. Consider the fate of the official player in this game with tools to address: Last year’s report By the Future Committee of the American Olympic Committee and the Disabled. In the failure of this is our legislative branch these days, the recommendations of the committee were directed by the coaches who formulated them for their lists. (In 2015, the government accountability office review of federal legislation that governs mathematical abuse turned into a report of the Torgid book that was universally ignored.)
The latest repairs to a long time in a permanent contract pattern were April’s dismissal for Ju’riese Colón, CEO of the American Center for SafeSport. Colon was the second president, who was established in 2018 to eliminate abuse claims by coaches in the National Olympic Sports Administration bodies. Her predecessor, Shalay Faws, resigned in the middle of her contract for three years.
For Cologne, the last straw was the news that an investigator in SafeSport, Jason Krasli, was He was arrested twice in his previous job As an officer in Pennsylvania – once to steal money from a single drug statue for rape and sex trafficking.
During the ritual expressions of disappointment and anger at the supervisory figures in Congress, there was no chirp from reference to the report of the 277 pages of the committee, “The torch pass: Update of the Olympic Games, the Disabled and Popular Sports in America“
After years of study, the interviews, and the petitions and public sessions, the committee, which included the former Olympic stars, proposed a comprehensive reform of the sports system for youth in America. Specifically, the Committee urged Congress to knock on the 1978 Olympic TED Stephen Stephen Venex Law to remove the Olympic Committee from the Youth Sports Programs Department at the popular base. In addition, the committee recommended the federal financing of the Safeesport Center, which was afflicted with corruption and the accumulation of cases, to get it out of malicious financial support and the impact of the Olympic bodies.
Some of the main newspapers of the report gave a few polite paragraphs last winter. For its part, the New York Times did not even tell its readers that such a report had been published.
The committee, which included the famous female Olympic stars and males, proposed a comprehensive reform of the sports system for youth in America. The New York Times did not even tell its readers that such a report had been published.
In January 2024, a group of Senate members, led by Maria Kaneuel, a democracy in Washington State headed by the Senate Trade, Science and Transport Committee, and Cologne fell in a lengthy speech suffering from shortcomings in SafeSport. On March 20, 2024, Senator John Heikinlobol, De Colo, who chaired the sub -committee for consumer protection, product safety and data security, held a hearing entitled “Promotion of a safe environment in American athletics.” Cologne witnessed. The same applies to the committee participating in the committee, Dion Koler, a specialist in sports law at Baltimore University. However, the notification of the session did not mention the committee’s report, which was issued two weeks ago.
The reporting of all of this is the theater of Congress Kabuki is the equivalent of the so -called swimming experiences and the completion of the finals. It is a process in two phases, at least. I started with Kaneuel. After all, she had sponsored the enabling legislation of the committee and appointed some of its members, including co -chair Koler.
(Koler did not talk about the record about the committee’s failure to penetrate public awareness. Sources close to the committee members told me that they hope that their report will have an impact over time and to ultimately direct the reforms.)
The CantWell Office has suspended my inquiry to Tricia Enright, the Trade Committee employee. She said that “the expected clients” in the youth safety issue are Send. In 2019, as a chairman and a (consecutive) ranking member of the sub -committee for consumer protection, they presented the committee’s legislation.
“Our consumer team was constantly in contact with the stakeholders about the progress of this bill,” said Enright. Blumentel and Maran “were evident that they were leading any legislation in the Senate for further reform – Bill has not yet been presented.”
Then I went to Blumenthal, noting that CantWell was to get him in this case. Blumenthal answered through the Director of Communications, Maria McClewin, who turned around these 150 words from Insalata Caprese:
Maintaining athletes is a non -applicable priority – and the meeting of this challenge requires a commitment from all stakeholders, including national ruling bodies. SafeSport has been assigned a tremendous, difficult and sensitive responsibility – from the ruling on abuse and assistance in correcting contracts from the defect in a system that protects predators instead of athletes. SafeSport did not always get it properly, and I was embarrassed when I felt that the center did not take a strong action in response to athletes’ concerns. The lack of communication, especially with the survivors, associated with the slow response and decision -making times, led to the loss of athletes to the loss of confidence in the center – and this lack of confidence has a material impact on the center’s ability to perform its job and keep the aggressors outside the sport. For this reason, I work with colleagues of Congress, athletes, survivors and NGBS on repairs. I look forward to suggesting these changes and creating them urgently.
For follow -up, I asked whether Blumenthal specifically supported the relevant recommendations from the Congress Committee. If you get a response at all, I will tell you that.
Blumenthal is good knowledge in two adults without follow -up. (To be fair, many politicians from all parties.) He was elected to the Senate in 2010 to Linda McMahon, former CEO of Connecticut, the professional wrestling company. Blumenthal was the state prosecutor for years, and during the Senate race his office launched an investigation into the Use of WWE for independent contractor categories, a tactic that prevents both the full benefits of employees and the stealing of government treasures at all levels of salary taxes. But as soon as he wins the elections, WWE audit was dropped. If he had done anything about misusing the independent contractor while serving in the Senate, I don’t know that.
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What I know is that in 2017, when Donald Trump nominated McMahon as head of the Small Business Administration, Blumentel was sure to shoot with her in her confirmation sessions. It seems that the importance of McMahon in 2010 has nothing to do with operating Scofflaw; It was simply because it was a Republican opponent. McMahon refused to go away. Under Trump 2.0 is what passes to the Minister of Education.
Regarding the problem of sexual assault on youth, CantWell, Blumenthal, and others, is just another reminder that when it comes to the crimes committed in the name of USOPC to receive flags and national bodies that produce TV content, the reservation around the Olympic brand is Bipartisan. In 2014, Representative George Miller from California sent the “leadership” of the self -appointed councils on this issue, a letter to the FBI who might be read today as if Chatgpt was written. The office actually laughed. After Miller’s retirement, you did not do behind him, MP Jackie Spirire, extending California, something before you also retired.
The Forptwatch on Lane 3 tells us that Republicans do not seem to be interested at all with the existence of platforms for sexual predation to young people, fortified by the Olympic Movement. In Lynn 4, Democrats work better: at least pretend they are doing it.
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