hero meyer 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 who knew what makes the mill you of sports so favorable to sexual abuse. linda fish and nic painfully they would see and decides to skip kind of find portland cod in the field . a sport indian finds on programs for media keeping tional as close 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 begins in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british book whose do or it was a premier league footballer and plead for england. he had

a successful career. me 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 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 duel with me 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 is 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 years to do is 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 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 moved, he would sometimes beat me up, been the fingers, but because he 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 scheme. marx 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 them. sure 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. all kept quiet so as to stay on the team. but as he got older, he got stronger. late when 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 sided 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 ever came back to the house again. after that i'd,

i'd simply and jord 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 in 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 where 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 would played professionally at the 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 the woodward, but i don't think anybody realized than 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 too had been abused by his coach more and more victims came forward. in a single week, 6 footballers accused their former coaches. and the fortnight after the initial article, $350.00 footballers spoke out. the

nation was devastated by their stories. the police squad that dealt with pedophilia cases was tasked with coordinating all the information. it took the investigators over a year and a half to produce an initial report. mm . in their lives almost 3000 referrals that police had purely as a result of the initial sort of public story. the andy woodward actually made around $300.00 suspects that were identified. some were dead, some, there wasn't sufficient evidence to 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. but the next oh yes or go

300 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. i 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. the news i think most likely is that we will find equipment floating for space that was sent by an advisor to relate. the experience will be similar to walking on the beach. most of the time use the rocks or the shells that were produced naturally.

but every now and then you encounter a plastic model and that gives you an important message even if it's not functional . he says that the realization is out there. ah, the, i don't know. i mean there are some fits in there were rescuing the food that they were not scavenging or were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best by march 21st, which is in 2 days. all these potatoes, holla, panels, onions, all of these came from waste round sources. the. this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. dr. because the tax laws, you know, definitely do benefit the wealthier people in our society. so that makes sense for

them to throw it out right off, rather than give it to somebody who could use it. and then that person is not going to buy it. the one of the persian gulf wealthiest country is, has spend billions of dollars on state of the art stadiums. well, look at this, the stadium is really taking shape. you can see the bowl and most of the stands now, when we were here a little bit over a year ago, at the same construction site, it was just a foundation and a few metal structures. so it seems that time why this idea to use shipping in years, this building blocks has definitely paid off. i mean, they're easy to assemble and easy to dismantle, just like playing with lego the, for the 1st time in world history, the stadium will be billed from shipping containers and what's more, it will be completely dismantled after the tournament.

in my car, jewelers sports, sociology. just sexual abuse, this is specialist field. he is one of a dozen or so academics around the world been trying to draw attention to the issue for years until the football scandal. no one wanted to know myself in the field. i just have a local stack when i get on to dick savage, i was like stacy activities. and while the decision you commit down pretty close to a sort of a pool, a boy, you take several 1000 athletes in belgium and the netherlands to partner study published in 20151 study about 4000 x athletes. they looked all forms of, of,

of abuse. the, the headline finding was that just over 40 percent of their 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 a 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 massive his deeply trouble it. 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 the athletes at the international level who performed the international level the,

the premise rate for those athletes. well, as i think, just a 30 percent so considerably higher than the, the, the general sample. so sample unemployed 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 the 200000 pound contract to play for manchester city. one of the top british club in the 198788 these and alone he scored 20 a goal london club. tottenham. hotspur, 8 a fortune for him. and in 1981. he scored a goal that one has seen the f. a had fame, fortune,

and professional recognition. he moved to london with his wife and we had 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 well were not enough to heal the wounds. well, dinner night 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 a 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, okay, i was just in such a so the stroke mode at this time, the more drink got 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 blackpool 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, victims locked themselves into silence. the glory of this terrace was an olympic gymnast. it was 36 years before she spoke about her experience. i live and i have a hard it's new streaming this mail you know and let me know. my number in the gym. i was not allowed to look up. i just need you down to the floor when i

get glorious stories starts with a little girl who love sport. got a big bro say my 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 gymnastics. 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 this 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 with the boys in the gym, but also with our brothers and sisters. and all of a sudden our parents are bad. one. he controlled what we 8, he 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 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 other 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. busy busy busy monday and up to 2 years 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 face. 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 bad 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 ins doing investigation. 14 people

testified against to do scar bio several girls the coach alongside gloria reported inappropriate touching some like i read. martinez agreed to testify publicly. others such as new dana 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 ashamed. i thought i provoked it because i was privy it so i was not going to turn my father that i was provoking much or anybody, you know, if somebody had asked me, i would have denied it. and then i'm hindered out for she didn't go in near a shaft hat knocked him in my position when to hear if it's when done and stifled so that jesus fond photo of food figure when diesel walker does, does own thing to speech 15 it the home they can no longer be speaking when she got the style. that's surprising. 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 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 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 titled, 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. the

these are the 4 people who pulled the trigger, survive something on survival for. one of the hardest things that i had the face was not having a face adult by patient life accepted, accept the fact that i made that appointment. we had no fears. del change pretty fast for shots. different stories behind the bullets. ah, i think most likely is that we will find the equipment floating through space that was sent by an advisor to relate. the experience will be similar to walking on the beach. most of the time use the rocks or the shells that were produced naturally. but every now and then you encounter a plastic model and that gives you an important message even if it's not functional . he says that the realization is out there.

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