Australian Olympic swimmer Maddie Groves says she was sexually abused from the property of 13 by a idiosyncratic inactive moving successful the sport.
Groves, the metallic medallist successful the 200m butterfly astatine the 2016 Rio Olympics, made respective allegations successful an interrogation with the ABC yesterday, pursuing societal media posts aimed astatine "misogynistic perverts and their bootlickers".
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The 26-year-old opted against naming the idiosyncratic who abused her and said she didn't privation to prosecute transgression charges.
However, Groves separately accused 2 coaches of mistreating her during the ABC interview.
She raised allegations against Michael Palfrey, who coached her betwixt the ages of 12 and 15, for his methods, which included having swimmers measurement themselves connected the excavation deck.
Groves said she would "run to the alteration rooms" erstwhile Palfrey carried retired weigh-ins and was watchful with what she ate, portion she besides claimed that helium sometimes near bruises connected her assemblage erstwhile demonstrating swimming movements.
Swimming Australia told the ABC it had referred the allegations against Palfrey to Sport Integrity Australia.
Groves besides spoke astir the alleged behaviour of erstwhile nationalist younker manager Glenn Beringen during his clip astatine the Oceania swimming championships successful Samoa.
"As a 15-year-old, I was sent to a overseas state fundamentally unsocial with nary existent enactment network, having this unusual antheral beryllium the 1 that was going to look aft me," Groves told the ABC.
"There was seemingly nary involvement successful speaking to maine erstwhile I was clothed ... but arsenic soon arsenic I was successful my togs, it was the clip erstwhile this idiosyncratic wanted to instrumentality maine distant from the radical and person these intimate conversations with maine and basal precise adjacent to me, wrong my idiosyncratic abstraction and truly lasting implicit maine and staring and leering astatine me."
Groves besides accused Beringen of "blatantly staring astatine my breasts", arsenic good arsenic "touching of my limb (and) touching of my little back".
She besides claimed "he would set my tog strap".
Groves said she raised her complaints against Beringen successful 2017 during an autarkic reappraisal by the Australian Swimmers Association into the FINA World Championships run successful Hungary.
Beringen told the ABC helium denied the allegation, portion the ABC has reported that Groves was told by Swimming Australia that her assertion was "unsubstantiated".
Swimming Australia did not renew Beringen's declaration this year.
"Swimming Australia remains resolute successful its committedness to continually amended our athletics to guarantee it is simply a harmless and thriving situation for each participants from the grassroots done to the elite level," SA said successful a statement.
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