Swimming Canada was questioned Monday by a member of Parliament over its chief executive officer taking leave just over a year out from the 2024 Summer Games…
“Being with the organization and on the leadership team over the last several years, that was a conscious decision to protect and ensure that the continuity of the organization was maintained in these last 14, 16 months in preparation for the Olympics and Paralympics,” Paulins said.
Both the Heritage and Status of Women committees have held regular hearings in recent months to address what federal sports minister Pascale St-Onge has called a safe sport crisis. Liberal MP Anthony Housefather asked Paulins what Swimming Canada had done about swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey who said she was drugged on the final night of last year’s world aquatics championship in Budapest, Hungary, where swimmers went to a club to celebrate the national team’s performance.Article content
“We’re constantly looking at and forward-looking to those sites and how we create procedures that will protect the swimmers in that environment,” Paulins said. Paulins acknowledged that Swimming Canada’s safe-sport measures and the Office of the Sports Integrity Commissioner established last year, focus on elite swimmers.Article content
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