Each sport the USA participates in needs to begin today to build their own committee to pay expenses for the athletes. These committees are to be autonomous and answer only to the IOC. They can be lead by family and professionals elected by the athletes. The committees will set their own policies, raise their own monies, participate in qualifying events and will maintain their own training facilities.
Every town in the USA has sports teams in junior and high school athletes. There is no reason the national teams cannot be organized in the same way. This is an outrage and completely ridiculous to even think the US Olympic Committee is a hierarchy that cannot be dismantled.
March 2, 2018
By Joe Deutsch
..."My highest priority (click here) has been to push for change, so future generations of athletes will be safer," Raisman said in a statement released to multiple media outlets. "It has become painfully clear that these organizations have no intention of properly addressing this problem.
"After all this time, they remain unwilling to conduct a full investigation, and without a solid understanding of how this happened, it is delusional to think sufficient changes can be implemented. Meanwhile, thousands of young athletes continue to train and compete every day in this same broken system.
"I refuse to wait any longer for these organizations to do the right thing. It is my hope that the legal process will hold them accountable and enable the change that is so desperately needed."
The lawsuit alleges that the USOC, "at the highest levels of its organization," was aware of Nassar's abuse and harassment of female gymnasts in his role as team doctor, according to ESPN....
