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USAT Makes Outside Magazine
By: Ladytkd Date: November 12, 2014, 7:49 am
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It is only three paragraphs of a long article but I thought I
would share it with you. Be sure you catch the part where
Gitelman was arrested for sex with a minor.
Great article. BTW - USA Taekwondo gets a dishonorable mention
for their handling of the Yasmin Brown case -
"Another recent example involves 20-year-old tae kwon do
athlete Yasmin Brown. In September 2013, Brown filed a formal
complaint against her coach, Marc Gitelman, detailing three
years of alleged sexual abuse that started when she was 16. In
advance of a January 2014 hearing, Brown turned in a 44-page
packet to USA Taekwondo and the USOC’s ethics committee. It
contained Brown’s statement, along with statements from three
teammates—including two who also said they were
abused—Gitelman’s ex-wife, parents to whom Gitelman had admitted
to the relationship with Brown, and copies of Facebook and
Twitter exchanges between Brown and Gitelman.
In the context of sex-abuse reporting, that’s a slam dunk. When
Gitelman’s other employer, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
saw Brown’s packet during its own investigation into the
allegations, it quickly fired him. USA Taekwando suspended
Gitelman from tournaments pending its investigation, but an
oversight allowed him to coach at three events in 2014.
At one of them, the U.S. Open Taekwondo Championships in Las
Vegas, Brown was forced to compete with Gitelman standing just
ten feet away and her former teammates cheering against her.
Gitelman was not banned until April 2014. He was in the middle
of appealing his suspension when he was arrested four months
later for having sex with a minor."
HTML http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/swimming/The-Sex-Abuse-Scandal-Plaguing-USA-Swimming.html
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Re: USAT Makes Outside Magazine
By: Gorilla Date: November 12, 2014, 3:29 pm
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The USAT could have been the HERO of this article! If they had
suspended him and not let him coach!
Instead they are on the wrong end of this article!
We have a tragic lack of leadership at the USAT!
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Re: USAT Makes Outside Magazine
By: Ladytkd Date: November 12, 2014, 4:27 pm
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[quote author=Gorilla link=topic=118.msg458#msg458
date=1415827742]
The USAT could have been the HERO of this article! If they had
suspended him and not let him coach!
Instead they are on the wrong end of this article!
We have a tragic lack of leadership at the USAT!
[/quote]
Actually USAT screwed it up even more than the article reports.
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Re: USAT Makes Outside Magazine
By: Knucklehead Date: November 14, 2014, 11:52 am
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Just posted this to Reddit. Maybe somebody will notice.
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