Coaches and leaders must apply equal rigour to creating safe environments as they have long done to winning
to share her story of an emotionally abusive relationship with a coach.
After the revelations from Wiggins and Shriver, there has never been a more important time for any of us involved in sport, whether as athletes, coaches, parents, leaders, volunteers or journalists, to realise our responsibility to change. To challenge our assumptions about what healthy grassroots and high-performance sport looks and feels like. And to take positive action to create a different experience of sport for current and future generations.
In the Olympic world, funding flows to the sports that bring home bags of medals and culture audits added in recent years quickly became tick-box exercises.
Across the Olympic and Paralympic performance world, there is a belief that when teams are winning medals, you can’t be criticised or asked to change. Then, when issues have emerged, there has been a token response, a new policy drawn up or training course delivered – but the deep culture of behaviours and beliefs stays the same.
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