British Gymnastics bans coaches from weighing gymnasts in new safeguarding rules after damning review

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 “tyranny” of weight management.

“Weighing was used as a punishment,” former gymnast Eloise Jotischky said.

“In the past, because there were no policies relating to excessive and inappropriate weight management, often coaches were able to kind of exploit that and would use very harmful practice,” Jotischky told BBC Sport.

In June 2022, Jotischky became the first – and to date only – gymnast to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced from coach Andrew Griffiths, with British Gymnastics admitting full liability and issuing an apology.

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