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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2021 19:31:28 GMT
Double Olympic silver medallist Madeline Groves has pulled out of Australia’s swimming trials for the Tokyo Games, citing “misogynistic perverts in sport.” Groves, who won silver in the 200 meters butterfly and 4×100 medley at the 2016 Rio Games, announced her decision on Instagram before following up with a furious tirade on Twitter on Thursday. “Let this be a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport and their boot lickers – You can no longer exploit young women and girls, body shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to represent you so you can earn your annual bonus. Time’s UP,” she tweeted. In December, Groves wrote on social media that she had made a complaint a few years ago about a man in swimming who stared at her in her swimsuit and made her feel uncomfortable. “I think he went through some personal development first hopefully to teach him to not stare at young women in their (swimsuit), THEN he got promoted,” she wrote on Twitter. She also wrote that a “well known coach” had made a “creepy comment” to her and apologized 15 minutes later, “possibly because the team psych told him to.” http://instagram.com/p/CP5PBjNgetG
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2021 6:10:50 GMT
Swimming Australia is in hot water. http://instagram.com/p/CP9uX-dA_Em The organization’s president Kieren Perkins claims that there’s “no evidence” two-time silver medalist Madeline Groves ever filed a formal complaint about being made uncomfortable by a swimming official or coach. This response comes in light of Groves’ announcement that she would not be competing in Australia’s Olympic trials to send a message toward “misogynistic perverts.” “Let this be a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport and their boot lickers – You can no longer exploit young women and girls, body shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to represent you so you can earn your annual bonus. Time’s UP,” she tweeted. This is not the first time that Groves publicly condemned Swimming Australia for similar reasons. In a Nov. 30 tweet, Groves claimed that she “definitely” made a complaint years back about a Swimming Australia official “making [her] feel uncomfortable the way they stare at [her] in [her] (swimsuit),” and that they had received a promotion following a personal development stint. Within 48 hours, she followed up with a response: “Woah guys this may have worked. Next time you have a weirdo stare at your t-ts and your complaints fall on deaf ears, try tweeting about it. I didn’t even say where they worked so good on that workplace for immediately knowing it’s their s–tness. Did they recognize my complaint because they already had it on file?”
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