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over the world. people are speaking out in 265 athletes have brought allegations of sexual abuse against larry and nasser the us olympic gymnastics, team doctor, i know now who you really are. a child molester and a master manipulator. more sexual abuse, accusations were raised by a group of 3 form, a coach of brazil gymnastics teams has been accused of sexually assaulted governments of young athlete. sexual abuse is rife in all areas of sport, individual and team sports. amateur and professional sports. athletes are often abused by the very people who help them when metals in my by everybody. so, why would somebody believe me? i was just a little girl coming from

irrespective of gender. one sports person in 7 was sexually abused when they were under 18. the price paid to, to, to achieve that really was, was found to money. who knew what makes the 1000000 of sports so favorable to sexual abuse? linda fish and paddle freely, they would see. and the script, alpine of fine portland cried in his team to support indian fines or for lines. or if you should rest clue as long as the metals in money keep coming, they don't care. ah, we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem. in fact, the why from government to the i o c? no one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people

. ah, i i o. our investigation begin in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british. stuart was the 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 newspaper in which an extra foller, andy woodward, described how he was abused by his coach as a boy. i think it's 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 dual one, me and he would try to abuse me sometimes even when my sister was 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 will take 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, as abuser 1st spotted him, at the time roper was working as a talent scout. recruiting young, hopeful for a local club. what years to do is yours 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's sexually abused make he whispered in that, if i tell anyone he would tell 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 he say that my parents didn't love me. i used to take myself 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, all powerful,

they will do as that told otherwise, although 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 lucian boys where they will do as i told, and they will sacrifice whatever they need to sacrifice to make it into the team. and to stay in the team. all 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 lyft 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 just before i was 15 and that oddly enough was enough. he made in 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 ever came back to the house again. after that i'd, i'd simply enjoyed enough, you know, for years was 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 a 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 him, the 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. div walters, 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 footballers spoke out 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. mm . me and their lives almost 3000 referrals that police had purely as a result of the initial so 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 tonight. oh yes. or go 1300 suspects. 350 clubs, 3000 referrals. the country reeled at the figures,

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i might cartel as a sports sociologist, sexual abuse. this is specialist field. he is 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 stuck when the figure you don't fit. dick savvy? deja related stacy except it is in a while the decision you commit down for reckless your shortest today pool. i believe you take several 1000 to athletes in belgium and the netherlands to partner study published in 20151 study about 4000 x athletes. they looked all forms of of abuse. the the headline find in was that just over 40 percent of the sample had experienced some form of sexual violence.

14 percent is about one in 7. 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 study 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 paid 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 victory's agitation and wealth were not enough to heal the wounds. well denied for 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 made you so happy then i got hoped both to say and ok. i was just in such a. so the 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 for, 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, describe so sexual abuse. victims 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 streaming this male very, you know, and let me nick, streaming in the gym. i was not allowed to go. i just had to leave it down to the floor when i get glorious story starts with a little girl who love sport. got

a big birthday. my me but you know i, i remember those were the happy days in the gym. you know, 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 paid 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 gym, 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, of actually 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,

who married 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 is just so confusing. you don't you don't know what's going on. i felt responsible for what was happening to me. i sent a shame and i thought i provoked it because i was pretty it's so i was not 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 hinders her. she didn't go in near a shaft hat, knocked him in my position when to have it's when done and stifled so that jesus fond photo of food figure. when diesel walker does, does own food to speech 15 it the home. they can no longer 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, 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 are used to paying a culture of obedient 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 examples. 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 felt the athlete and currently holds the most olympic titled with 28 metals . 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. chuck, well guess who was 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, the the

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