Why not say: "This nonsense ends now! Full investigation and transparency as well as a policy and a process to prevent it from happening again to be created concurrent to the investigation!" Also: "We don't care whose feelings get hurt."
Australians should call for transparency and demand that any coach or Swimming Australia staff member involved in any sexually unethical or even sexually immoral activities that brings disgrace to the reputation of the Swimming Australia organization be FIRED!
Look what elite triathlete, Paul Shearer had to go through. From GoldCoast.com:
Paul Shearer, 38, competed as a swimmer at state championship level as a teenager and claims he was sexually molested at least 20 times on the Gold Coast.
"He befriended our family and down the track he went on to molest me or have sexual contact with me, you could say," said Shearer last night.
The alleged incidents happened over 18 months, he says, at the hands of a leading Australian coach at his rented Gold Coast home and in his car.
"I'd be thinking to myself 'no, this isn't happening' so I'd call in to say hello and then next thing it was happening again and it was almost like I was living in denial," he said.
The coach was once in charge of some of the biggest names in Australian swimming, the ABC reported last night.
He cannot be named for legal reasons and Swimming Australia declined to comment.
Mr Shearer, now an elite triathlete chosen to represent Australia at the world age championships this year, said he kept quiet for 20 years before telling his parents.
He has had a broken marriage and twice attempted suicide.
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