Olympic snowboarders including 2 Alaskans accuse US Olympic committee and federation of covering up sexual misconduct by former coach
Posted on AllSides February 8th, 2023
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LOS ANGELES -- The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the national governing body for snowboarding and the former national team snowboard coach conspired to engage in sex trafficking, enabling and covering up repeated acts of sexual misconduct, three former national team snowboarders claimed in a lawsuit Thursday. Rosey Fletcher of Anchorage, one of the plaintiffs, is a three-time Olympian who won a bronze medal in 2006. Another plaintiff, Alaskan Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, spoke out in Instagram posts in February 2022. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles,...
