On Wednesday of this week in Sarnia, gymnastics coach Dave Brubaker was acquitted of sexual assault and sexual exploitation. It is disturbingly easy to look at the sports system in Canada and especially the United States in a vacuum and conclude something is wrong. “When I came into this role about a year ago, my number one priority was addressing abuse, discrimination, harassment in sport,” Duncan said in an interview this week. “It is a system problem, it is a culture problem.” But she seems committed. And that’s what happened in sport, because we’re such a volunteer-driven country in sport, which is beautiful but it’s also the problem.

Source: thestar February 16, 2019 00:22 UTC