amiandjim
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There is a mom on a facebook group who has her young daughter at this gym and she is defending him, saying she has never seen anything and he has been nothing but supportive of her daughter (who I think is a level 5 or something).
I largely agree with this, 20 athletes on a team can have 20 different experiences and while these circumstances should not be taken lightly they also should be handled without jumping to conclusions.Perhaps the reason “nothing was done” is because the allegations were unfounded or they weren’t able to discern what happened?
And how do we know nothing was done? There are several ways to address issues that arise and they all don’t end with the coach being banned. None of us are privy to that information so it’s best to not make assumptions.
Everyone has a different personal experience — even participating in the same thing, what I feel about it will be different than everyone else. A comment to me may be barely noticed and the same comment to another could be interpreted very differently. Any of us who’ve been in the gymnastics world (or any activity really) have experienced some sort of gym drama - from the kids interacting with each other and the drama that can arise from that to how the coaches interact with the gymnasts. I’ve personally witnessed people freaking out over something that I thought was no big deal. One family blew up and eventually left our former gym over something that was obviously a big deal to them, but really seemed like a normal and appropriate response by the gym to the rest of us. Point is - there are two sides to every story and multiple bits of important data to round out a story. This only presents some of the info.
This is well known in NC, parents who say they don't know don't want to know.
This makes me absolutely sick. Hearing what those girls are probably still going through...
It also illustrates how these things keep happening even when someone reports. We have a judge who actually witnessed a child being slapped and did the absolute right thing by reporting it. But because everyone is so afraid of reprisal and having scholarships taken away and losing the return on their investment, still nothing was done. How do we fix this? It's my understanding that this type of report would still go to USAG, right? Because safe sport is only handling sexual abuse? And I suspect that now that the story is in the NY times, we might see some action against him. It shouldn't take going to the media to get things to change, but that seems to be the only way to get results.
What exactly is well known in NC? We are in NC, and I honestly hadn't heard anything like these accusations about Everest. And my daughter has competed against them in pretty much every meet in compulsories for the past 4 years. I don't live in the Charlotte area though, so maybe it's only well known around there..