After a 2011 sexual abuse scandal, the national sports organization AAU pledged to implement “historic child protection measures” for the hundreds of thousands of kids in its care. But ProPublica and @washingtonpost.com found that most of these reforms were never implemented.
A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
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![Quote: What if we bring a red button right in front of the kiss and cry? And when the skaters see their scores on the monitor and don't like it, you press the button, the challenge button.
And then my idea is like this: the technical committee member stands beside the real judges...If the skater pushes that red button, the technical committee will review during the next performer. So we don't lose a minute...
They may make the same decisions, but maybe you're right [and] the skater could win... this kind of mistake could happen. The skaters are sacrificing their whole life to skating. They're serious. On the judge's side, or the organization’s side, we also need to be serious. To avoid those kind of mistakes, I think this kind of a challenge system [could work].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:caojxy3pm4njusbi75s2va75/bafkreihw55dkpw6ilhsrh7ur4wjnxw24tzfu45vh6mvgleiga5ycrcbowq)
