Team GB’s women’s gymnastics team has suffered major disruption less than 3 months before the Paris Olympics after the national head coach David Kenwright suddenly quit his role. He only took over from Amanda Reddin in 2022, when she stood down following multiple allegations of abuse made against her. She has always denied the allegations….
A family was treated “terribly” by a gymnastics club after reporting alleged sexual abuse, an investigation found. The parents of Kirsty, not her real name, alleged that she had been abused by a former coach when she was 10. The family were then excluded from the York club for a year, a report said. British…
Former gymnasts fear an independent complaints process set up to examine allegations of emotional and physical abuse against dozens of coaches is in danger of unravelling. ITV News understands that the latest hearing – which involved a coach who sits on British Gymnastics’ Coach Advisory Group – was effectively thrown out after a disciplinary panel…
Nikki O’Donnell has been given an apology and compensation following allegations she made against her former coach. Sports Editor Steve Scott reports A former gymnast who says she was abused by an ex-Olympian has settled her legal claim against British Gymnastics, ITV News can reveal. Nikki O’Donnell alleges that Stanley Wild touched her inappropriately as…
Leading campaign group Gymnasts for Change (G4C) is calling for an immediate halt to the British Gymnastics complaints process, describing it as “not fit for purpose”. The claim comes after not a single case that was heard as a result of the Whyte review into the sport’s abusive culture has led to a coach being…
Coaches will no longer be able to weigh gymnasts under new British Gymnastics rules designed to stop “harmful practices” which it says are “on the fringes of abuse”. The 2022 Whyte Review found “systemic” physical and emotional abuse in the sport “borne of inadequate practice”. This included athletes having their bags searched for food in…
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…
They are not household names, but many are locked deep in the minds of those they abused. Today, as British Gymnastics publishes its long-awaited ‘banned and expelled’ list, the gymnasts who carry the scars inflicted by those now named will feel partly vindicated. The list, published online, comprises 63 names, more than half of whom have criminal…
British Gymnastics’ “inept and dysfunctional” system means the “wheels of change are barely turning” a year on from the publication of the damning Whyte Review into abuse in the sport, a campaign group says. Friday marks 12 months since an independent investigation found issues of physical and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Britain were “systemic”….
The chair of British Gymnastics has called for the government to establish an independent safeguarding body across all sports to “show we care as much about athlete welfare as we do about medal table success”. Mike Darcey said national governing bodies have “neither the expertise nor resources” to handle abuse allegations, and that individuals involved…