sports person and 7 was sexually abused when they were under 18. the price paid to, to, to achieve that really was, was far too much. who knew what makes the mill you of sport so favorable to sexual abuse? linda fish and mish pedal freely they would see in the script. i'll kind of find portland guide in this team to support indian fines and financial media from tional rest clue as long as the metals in money keep coming, they don't care g. we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem and found them why, from governments to the io see, no one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people . ah,

how the o our investigation began in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british. stuart was a premier league footballer and plead for england. he had a successful career in o, waited a very long time before speaking up about what his coach did to him. one morning and late 2016 paul read an article in the guardian. his paper in which an extra

foller, andy woodward, described how he was abused by his coach as the boy shuffling gets a little bit further in the story. if i upset him in any way, drop me from the team. any point you tell me, you will go and you will disappear and the dream won't happen. i was frightened to death because he had complete power over me. by that stage, it was like a double whammy, and he would try to abuse me sometimes even when my sisters in the same house it was just like reading my own story with somebody else, somebody else's name. and. and that really resonated with me if you really, really hit a strong note and i felt compelled to to speak, o e ah

paul was raped by his coach between the ages of 10 and 14. he took us to see the manchester suburb where he lived as a child, the place where the abuse started back. then as soon as the school day ended, paul would spend all his time on the football pitch across the motorway, a few 100 yards from his home. that was where frank roper is. abuser 1st spotted him at the time roper was working as a talent scout. recruiting young, hopeful for a local club. what you used to do is you used to play football games after school again. so the skills and then people like him was coming around and look for players. and he, he approach my dad because he was asking who the father was,

the number 10 roper took paul and to his team. the assaults began a week later, paul was 10. the 1st time that he sexually abused me, he whispered in my, but if i tell anyone he would kill my mom and dad and my brothers. and he also said, this is what you have to do. if you want to be a football you can, you know, he's made he would sometimes beat me up, been the fingers, but because they say that didn't love me. i used to take me away dreaming that i was playing at old trafford where lunches, united play or wembley wearing and play and it was my way of almost associated with so from what was actually happening

all became withdrawn. his school marks went from bad to worse. he started refusing to go to school and spent a lot of time in his bedroom. within lunch, a happy child he had been was gone. replaced by a silent teenager who clung doggedly to his dream of becoming a footballer. paul was sexually assaulted, almost daily for 4 years. powerless to free himself from the hold his coach had over him. this syndrome is familiar to sociology this. the child is in an extremely weak position than the club is all powerful. the coaches are powerful, they will do as that told otherwise, they'll be out. and if you're a sports coach with, with some level of power and influence,

then of course you have something to, to manipulate children with because they, they want your endorsement, they want your approval, they want your skills to train them. if you can offer them a glory that they can dream about and if you can offer them success, that is something that they would, they would respond to. then of course, you have an enormous power over them because that's too much at stake to, to say no to your coach. so this produces a very conformist, very conservative attitude amongst a bunch of boys where they will do as i told, and they will sacrifice wherever they need to sacrifice to make it into the team and to stay in the team kept quiet so as to stay on the team but as he got older, he got stronger. late one afternoon when he was 14, roper was giving him a lift home from football practice in his car. as usual,

instead of taking him straight home, he parked in a secluded spot not far away. this was the place when when i just before i was 15 and that out of the side enough was enough. he made an advance to reach over to me and leaned over to me. i pushed him off, open the door and just ran and ran from her home. and he never came back to the house again. after that i'd, i'd simply and jord enough you know, for years for a long, long time to, to, to suffer on a daily basis what i was suffering. paul

stuart is far from being an isolated case in the high level british sport, the united kingdom has witnessed the biggest sexual abuse scandal and sporting history. the one involving the most victims and abusers. it is still ongoing. in late 2016, over a period of several weeks shilling revelations, of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of young footballers were headline news. the scandal was unleashed by a newspaper article. the one that prompted paul stuart to speak out. david con, as a guardian reporter, he was one of the team of journalists who broke the story. in the article published on the 16th of november 2016 andi would word a 43 year old ex footballer who had played professionally at regional level revealed that he had been raped by his coach between the ages of 11 and 17. it was

obviously a very powerful interview with andy woodward, but i don't think anybody realized then that it would release the floodgates of so many of the people coming forward me. 4 days later, steve walter, another footballer told how his coach had abused him the following day. david white, a former manchester city player, described how he had been abused by his coach more and more victims came forward. in a single week, 6 footballers accused their former coaches in the fortnight after the initial article. $350.00 footballers spoke out the. the nation was devastated by their stories. the police squad that dealt with pet ophelia cases was tasked with coordinating all the information. it took the investigators over a year and a half to produce an initial report. me

. it's almost $3000.00 referrals the police had purely as a result of the initial sort of public story. the, and the woodward actually made around $300.00 suspects that were identified. some were dead, some there wasn't sufficient evidence prosecute, but for many there was, and some of those trials are still ongoing. now. actually involve around about $350.00 football clubs. all levels of the game speedy bird select. oh yes. or go 1300 suspects. 350 clubs, 3000 referrals. the country reeled at the figures, but they came as no surprise to those who had been studying the problem for years.

a recall thinking when i 1st saw that as a game changer for some of those, i suppose it's it was almost what we'd been waiting for. ah ah ah, i am one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy a close a little of the real last vegas,

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i my car til is a sports sociologist sexual abuse. this is specialist field, he's one of a dozen or so academics around the world. they've been trying to draw attention to the issue for years until the football scandal. no one wanted to know myself and you don't feel like you look on stuck when the figure on it. dick savage, i was like, is this the activity is any while the decision you commit down pretty close to

a sort of a pool of the way we take several 1000 athletes in belgium and the netherlands to partner study published in 20151 study about 4000 x athletes and they looked all forms of, of, of abuse. the, the headline find in was that just over 40 percent of that sample had experienced some form of sexual violence. 14 percent is about $1.00 and $7.00. the evidence suggests that one in 7 athletes under 18 be they, male or female experiences, sexual abuse, or the study use the term sexual abuse from the broad sense of the convention on the rights of the child to mean anything from indecent images to rate as massive

deeply troubling, but also within that study, they found that athletes who were non heterosexual identified, their prefers rate was also higher. they found that athletes from a minority ethnic background, their primitive rate was also higher. they found that athletes at the international level who performed the international level, the premise rate for those athletes. well, as i think just a 30 percent, so considered be higher than the the, the general sample sample. an important story in the 1st real robust study we've had in this in this area with the call stewart reached the international level and his support level at which almost one athlete in 3 has experience sexual abuse in 19868 years after he found the strength to rebuff his coach. he fulfilled his dream. age 22, he signed 820-0000 pound contract to play for manchester city. one of the top

british club in the 198788 these and alone he scored 20 a gold london club. tottenham. hotspur, he'd a fortune for him. and in 1991. he scored a goal that won his team, the f. a had fame, fortune, and professional recognition. he moved to london with his wife in the at met 3 years earlier. their 1st child was born around then in magazine photographs, paul looks the happiest of men as if he had forgotten the 4 years of sexual abuse. but victories, agitation and wealth were not enough to heal the wounds. well denied over in london, i was passing. se make somebody offered me

a tablet. i didn't really know what it was at the time, but it was x to say once i took the tablet, all of a sudden you for it was just like nothing i'd ever felt before. much. and just maybe so happy then i got hoped both to say and ok. i was just in such a selfish stroke mode at the time the more drink, the more drugs that had the more i needed to sometimes just know the pain after a year and rehab paul ended his career and football, he set up a small medical communications business and went back to live in black, 4 with his wife and their 3 children. frank roper, his abuser,

was never brought to trial. he died of cancer in 2005. the police received allegations of abuse by roper from 31 victims. all kept his secret for 42 years. why do most victims keep quiet about their abuse? the i in the suburbs of madrid, a former champion, gymnast described so sexual abuse, victim locked themselves into silence. gloria this era was in the limbic gymnast. it was 36 years before she spoke about

her experience. i live and i have a hard it's extremely this male very mixed feelings in the gym. i was not allowed to look up. i just had to leave you down to the floor. when i went gloria story starts with a little girl who love sport. got a big birthday, remind me. but you know, i, i remember those were the happy days in the gym. i was really, really excited about how didn't i only saw about being in the gym and work. you know, you know, when i moved out of the 1st you the local club,

i went to the national training center and must have been 11, probably 10 or 11. i think i was just starting to train with, with the coach. the coach was his use car bio, the star of spanish him, now sticks. you know, he was very charming. he had been a very good gymnast. we felt very special that he pay attention to us. you know? then during the strange being started to happen, this was very subtle, very, very slow. he isolated us from the rest of the world. he would not allow us to speak with some with the boys in the june, but also with our brothers and sisters. and all of a sudden our parents are bad ones. he controlled what we controlled or sleeping. he

controlled everything, you know. so then he started giving us the massage. he used to be the 1st one getting to the gym in the afternoon. he would make me work. wait for him in the warm up room that was in the basement. right. it felt like my body was there, but i was not, i was, i was dancing with carmen, or the bolero, the ravel. and that's what i, what i did, i had to keep my mind busy with other stuff. i used to repeat in my mind my routine over and over and over and over and over again. just not to think

oh, i . busy her i. ringback busy monday and couldn't stop the tears and i came out crying. so my father went after him to the locker room, and i could hear them screaming from outside. my father came out and he told me, you're not ever coming back here again. he never asked me. i never told him i thought this is going with me to my phrase, my secret some survivors of abuse will talk about how they didn't want to speak about what was happening because it wasn't just that dream. it was that parents tree. and so for many survivors,

it isn't often not until the parents of about she died that they're able to feel able to speak about the experiences they have. gloria is one such survivor. she waited until her father died to speak out. in 2012 aged 48, she reported the abuse to the police. in the ensuing investigation, 14 people testified against his use car by several girls he coached alongside, gloria reported inappropriate touching. some like i read, martinez. agreed to testify publicly. others such as medina san jose. to marry car bio, testified in his favor. the abuse had happened too long ago for a car bio to be tried. eventually an agreement was reached with the spanish gymnastic federation, under which he seems to be a national coach. at the time, the chairman of the federation was none other than car bios own son. also

a former champion, gymnast car bio always denied the abuse and still has a sizable fan following. he just told me that he left me so of course you had, you had this love hate relationship. he was your coach who took care of you and it's just so confusing you don't that age, you don't know what's going on. i felt responsible for what was happening to me. i sent ashamed. i thought i provoked it because i was pretty it's so i was now going to turn my father that i was provoking that, or anybody, you know, if somebody had asked me, i would have denied it and then i'm hinders her. she didn't go in near a shaft hat, knocked him off my tuition when to hear if it's when done and

stifled so that jesus fond photo of food figure. when diesel walker does own food to speech 15, visit the home, they can no longer be speaking. when she got there to start that, so we don't teach children from a young age what their rights are. if we did those kinds of things, we might start to erode. the vulnerability that there, that these children have many factors make these crimes easy to commit. and hard to report in sporting context, the power the coach has over the athletes. the fact that they're used to paying a culture of obedience, parental pressure, shame, and dreams of glory. you might think sporting federations would do their utmost to protect their athletes and punish the perpetrators very often they do just the

opposite. iterations deliberately conceal abuse and protect abusers. the u. s. swimming federation is one of the worst example. the usa swimming federation is a powerful organization ah, of the 104 metals, one by the usa and the 2016 olympics. 33 were won by swimmers. this is the federation that produced michael phelps. the athlete who currently holds the most olympic title with 28 metal to his credit. it has almost 4 100000 members and an annual budget of over $40000000.00. the one man is responsible for the success shotwell guess who is executive director of usa swimming for 20

years. chuck longer succeeded in turning a nonprofit sporting association into a highly profitable federation. and during the 20 years when he was executive director, he covered up numerous cases of sexual abuse. ah ah, i don't know. i mean there's some fits in there who are rescuing the food that they were not scabbing or where were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best buy march 21st, which is in 2 days. all these potatoes hall panels, onions. all of these came from waste brown sources. this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. dr. because the tax laws, you know,

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