KRDO in Colorado Springs is running a story about former USA Swimming exec and Mike Saltzstein and USA Swimming!

Mike Saltzstein was a former exec within USA Swimming and he is not happy with the child protection policies that USA Swimming is putting forward. KRDO in Colorado Springs interviewed him for this story:

From KRDO:

"I don't see anything that has a time-line to it or calls for immediate action," says Mike Saltzstein, a vice president at USA Swimming from 2000-2006. "It's just more of the same. In 2004 the board directed that a director of child protection be named, and in 2010 we're just now announcing that we're going to hire this person?

"He says swimming benefits thousands of young people, and he gains nothing from tearing down a sport and organization that he's still involved with. Saltzstein has come up with his own ideas on how to prevent sexual abuse, ideas he says USA Swimming officials asked him not to publish. They include requiring two adults to be present around swimmers, punishing staff members who fail to report abuse, and forbidding coaches from giving massages and rub-downs unless they're certified. He also wants required discipline for any threat of retaliation.

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I emailed Mike Saltzstein regarding this interview and he wanted me to add that he wants a policy that is of mutual protection to both the swimmer and the coach.