Ottawa must halt federal gymnastics funding, athletes tell sport minister
are calling on Canada’s sport minister to freeze funding to their national sport organization.
The letter comes a week after a coach in Lethbridge, Alta., was charged with sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.Several gymnasts told The Canadian Press earlier this week they wondered if the abuse could have been prevented had their calls for intervention been heard. GymCan announced recently it had commission McLaren Global Sport Solutions to do a “culture review” of the sport’s national governing body. But the gymnasts have rejected the review, since it’s “bought and paid for by the very organization to be investigated.”
The gymnasts posted their first public letter on March 28, urging Sport Canada to move ahead with an investigation.
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