‘Complaints process likely to deter gymnastics whistleblowers speaking up’
The author of a report which found “systemic” abuse and a “coach-led culture of fear” in gymnastics says long delays in resolving hundreds of complaints threaten to deter future whistle-blowers.
Anne Whyte KC’s comments come as British Gymnastics implemented new safeguarding measures, recommended by her, to ban gymnasts being weighed and under-12s missing school.
Speaking to ITV News before the new rules were announced, Ms Whyte said: “If it takes over three years to determine complaints, this is very likely to discourage those who wish to make complaints.”
Despite hundreds of submissions to the review, and the complaints process set up alongside it, few coaches have been banned or expelled by British Gymnastics in the past three years.
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