A claim by Olympic swimmer Maddie Groves of perverts in the sport forces Swimming Australia to open an investigation into the experiences of women and girls.
Swimming Australia will set up an independent panel to investigate issues relating to the experiences of women and girls in the sport.Groves said she withdrew from the Australian Olympic swimming trials due to misogynists and perverts in the sport
Groves posted on Instagram that her decision to withdraw from the trials is mostly "the culmination of years of witnessing and 'benefiting' from a culture that relies on people ignoring bad behaviour to thrive. I need a break.""Obviously with some of the communications, some of the tweets, I think we have to investigate some of those issues," he told reporters on Saturday afternoon.
Baumann said no other swimmer had come forward to swimming Australia with complaints about their treatment."But I think this is what we're setting up to try to find out, so we're setting up this panel to exactly take a look at that.
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