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because that would be significant to post countries. border disputes don't go away . they discuss some things going to happen. ah, today shocking allegations of sexual abuse will reveal, involving a former top us figure skating coach been stuck open. that's it also do, and you listen. you don't include pool the top of your all sick friend. notice book me haven't get zillow intensive in recent years. there has been a wave of revelations about sex abuse in sport, or from all over the world. people are speaking out, 265 athletes have brought allegations of sexual abuse against larry and nascar,
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the u. s. olympic gymnastics, team doctor, i know now when you really are a child molester in a master manipulator. more sexual abuse, accusations were raised by a group of shop. 4 3, an average former coach of brazil's domestics teams has been accused of sexually assaulting dozens of young athletes. sexual abuse is rife in all areas of sport, individual into sports, amateur and professional sport. athletes are often abused by the very people who help them when metals. she was a hero, he was admired by everybody. so why would somebody believe me? i was just a little girl. she's coming home all that is a hotel column which also such company irrespective of gender one, the sports person in 7 was sexually abused. when they were under 18, then the price would pay to to,
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to achieve up really was was fall too much. who knew what makes the mill you of sport so favourable to sexual abuse? is belinda fish and finished noah all paid off? he li, redwood. sienna sized this good dell fine, a fine forklift kite in this table to sports indian finds one for one stroke to them. yuki from tional, rice glue, as long as the metals and money keep coming, they don't care. mm. we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem and fathom why from governments to the io see, no one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people . ah
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ah ah, our investigation begins in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british books. i will . stewart was a premier league footballer and plead for england. he had a successful career. oh, 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 ex, uh foller. andy woodward described how he was abused by his coach as a boy. i think it is
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a little bit further in the store. if i, if i upset him in any way, drop me from the t at 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 sister was in the same house, it was just like reading my own story, but with somebody else, somebody else's name and. and that really braz ignited with me if you will, fight really, really hit her a strong note and i felt compelled to, to speak hope. ah
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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 hopefuls for a local club. what you used to do is you used to play football games after school again for the skills. and then people like him would come in around and look for flyers. and he, he approached my dad because he was asking who the father was of the number 10 roper took paula to his team. the assaults began a week later,
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paul was 10. the 1st time that he sexually abused me, he whispered in my ear, but if i tell anyone he would kill my mom and dad and my brothers. and he also said that this is what you have to do if you want to be a footballer. depending on his mood, oh, he would sometimes beat me up. her been laughing as bart because he'd say, look, parents didn't love me. i used to save myself away, dreaming that i was playing a oh profit, where i wanted to learn to play or wembley wearing flight. and it was my way of almost this associates. and so from what was actually happening between withdrawn his school, marx went from bad to worse. he started refusing to go to school and
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spent a lot of time in his bedroom. ah, listen lunch. happy child, he had then was gone. replaced by a silent teenager who clung doggedly to his dream of becoming a footballer. hall 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 sociologists. the child is in an extremely weak position, and the club is all powerful. the coaches all powerful are they, they will do as they're told otherwise, or they'll be out and. 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,
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they want your skills to train them. if you can offer them at glory that they can dream about and if you can offer them success, that is something that that would they would aspire 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 her mom's young boys where they will do as i told, and they will sacrifice whatever they need to sacrifice to make it into the team. had to stay in the team are 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 tone from football practice in his car. as usual, instead of taking him straight home, he parked in
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a secluded spot not far away. this was the place when when i just before i was 15 that i decided that enough was enough. he made in advance to reach over to me and leaned over to me. i pushed him off. i opened 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 enjoyed enough. you know, for years was a long, long time to, to, to sofa on a daily basis. what i was suffering paul stuart is far from being an isolated case. in a high level british sport,
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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 chilling 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 and he 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 $11.17. it was obviously a very powerful interview with andy woodward. but i don't think that
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anybody realised than that it would release the floodgates of so many other people coming forward. me. 4 days later, steve walters, another ex 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 in the fortnight after the initial article. 350 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 with
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their lips, almost $3000.00 referrals, police heart purely as a result of the initial. so, public story that i'm the world world actually made around $300.00 suspects that were identified. some were dead, some, there wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute, but for money there was in some of those trials are still ongoing. now, i'm actually involved around about $350.00 football clubs. all levels of the game speaker so much, oh, $300.00 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 it, that sir, is a game changer. for some of those i, i suppose it,
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it was almost what we'd been waiting for long. no one else shows the wrong one. i just don't know any yes to say proud disdain because of the answer to an engagement. it was the trail when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. for mallory ourselves to be more efficient quicker with our transactions. but with that comes a trade off. every device is a potential entry point for security at any machine because
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it's an extension of traditional time. the defenders have always been one step behind the attackers with. mm hm. there's one called option in the order. it's not a matter of, if it happens, it's a matter of when if we can now look into people's minds, read the false. the question then is, what kind of consequence we, we could take from this. i think you take the example flying. it would prevent us from lying. we wouldn't be able to lie anymore if everything becomes transparent, but what we're thinking mm. my car chill is 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
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the issue for years until the football scandal. no one wanted to know myself in the laundry street. i have i do sir. lucas stuck when that figure is all said dick. good savvy deja roy stacy? except that it is, and while the did the cynical commit down per rail close to order shorter strip was wavy tickets that they built. several 1000 athletes in belgium and the netherlands took partner, study published in 2015, one study about 4000 ex athletes. and they looked all forms of, of abuse on the, the headline find in a was that just over 14 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 the male or female
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experiences sexual abuse. but study use the term sexual abuse and the broad sense of the convention on the rights of the child to mean anything from indecent images to rate. that is massive. i 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 to athletes from a minority ethnic background, their prevalence ray was also higher. and they found that athletes at the international level who performed the international level, the previous re for those athletes was i think just a 30 percent. so considerably higher than the that the general sample. so often put an important study in the 1st real robust study. we've had in this, in this area that's boring. with dell stuart reached the international level in his
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sport. the level at which almost one athlete in 3 has experienced sexual abuse in 10868 years after he found the strength to rebuff his coach. he fulfilled his dream . age 22. he signed a 200000 pound contract to play for manchester city, one of the top british clubs in the 198788 season alone. he scored 28 goals. the london club tottenham hotspur paid a fortune for him and in 1091 he scored a goal that one has seen the effect. oh, had seen fortune and professional recognition. he moved to london with his wife and he 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 victory's adulation and wealth,
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we're not enough to heal the wounds. well, i'll stop it denied tobin london. i was parted with teammates and somebody offered me a tablet. i didn't really know what it was at the time, but it was acts to say, i'm to you. once i took a tablet, all of a sudden the euphoria was just fresh. like nothing i'd ever felt before. much. it was just it just made you so happy. then i got hoped on both x to say ok. ok. i was just in such a self the stroke mode at that time and the more drink god, the more drugs had, the more i needed to sometimes just normal pain after
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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. he. the police received allegations of abuse by roper from 31 victims. paul kept his secret for 42 years. why do most victims keep quiet about their abuse? ah ah, in the suburbs of madrid, a former champion gymnast, describe so sexual abuse,
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victims locked themselves into silence. gloria 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 so nice feelings on this mail. they did last, you know, they mathnasium. with my experience in the gym, i was not allowed to look up. i was just looking down to the floor when our and given us glorious story starts with the little girl who loved sport. got a big grocery my, me but you know, i, i remember those were the happy days in the gym. you know, i was really,
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really excited about didn't i only thought about being in the gym and working out 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 paid attention to us. you know, then now, then the strange things started to happen. this was very subtle, very, very slow. he isolated us from the rest of our world. he would not
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allow us to speak with with the boys in the gene, but also with our brothers and sisters. and a sudden our parents are bad ones. he controlled what we 8, he controlled our sleeping. he controlled everything, you know. so then he started giving us the massage. ah, he and i used to be the 1st one getting to the gym in the afternoon. he would make me work, wait for him. and then in the warm up room that was in the basement that ranked my him, it felt like my body was there, but i was not, i was, i was dancing with carmen, or they bolero, they ravel and that's what i, what i did, i had to keep my mind
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b. c 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 for . busy ringback busy busy monday i couldn't stop the tears and i came out crying. and so my father went after him to the lock room. i could hear them screaming from outside and my father came out and he told me you're not ever coming back here again. he never asked me. i never told you might i thought this is going with me to my grave. my secret some
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survivors of abuse will talk about how they didn't want to speak about what was happening because it wasn't just their dream. it was that parents treat and so for many survivors it isn't is often known till the parents have of actually died that they're able to feel able to speak about the experiences they had. 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 bio, several girls he coached alongside, gloria reported inappropriate touching. some like i read martinez. agreed to testify publicly. others such as i'm medina, san jose, who married carbajal, testified in his favor. the abuse had happened too long ago for car bio to be tried
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. eventually an agreement was reached with the spanish gymnastics federation, under which he ceased 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 by o is denied the abuse and still has a sizable fan following. she just told me that he loved me. so of course you had, you had this love hate relationship. he was your coach who took care of you and it is. this is just so confusing. you know, at that age you don't know what's going on. i felt responsible for what was happening to me as a guilty. i felt ashamed. i thought i provoked it because i was pretty so i was now gonna tell my father that i was provoking that or anybody, you know, if somebody had asked me,
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i would have denied it at that time. and then i kinda as for seasons gordon, niched shaft tut and asked him if my supposition went to him. if it's when done and a stifled zagging eddies as fine photos of food, a figure auntie zocker, das it is unfair to stitch 15 viet von, they kin nozzle long ago, shaking. huh. went on. so she and i got there to stop. that's was quiet and we don't teach children from a young age what they're right saw if we did those kinds of things, we might start to erode the vulnerability that they, that these children have. many factors make these crimes easy to commit and hard to report and sporting context. the power the coach has over the athletes. the fact that they are used to pain on a culture of obedience, parental pressure, shame,
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and dreams of glory. you might think sporting federations would do their utmost to protect their athletes and punish the perpetrators that very often they do just the opposite. some generations deliberately conceal abuse and protect abusers. the u. s. swimming federation is one of the worst examples usa swimming federation is a powerful organization 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 titles with 28 metals to his credit. it has almost 4 100000
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members and an annual budget of over $40000000.00. ah, one man is responsible for the success shock. well guess who was executive director of usa swimming for 20 years. chuck warriors succeeded in turning a non profit 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. join me every 1st bit on the alex simon. sure. well i'll be speaking together from the world of politics, sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you. then we're empowering ourselves to be more efficient or quicker with our transactions. we can
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