[TW] Sexual Abuse & Misconduct in Figure Skating

[sallycinnamon]

10 minutes ago, Paskud said:

 

 

Didier refused to resign?  What surprise. 

[rubyblue]

This is disgusting. He's a shameless, insolent monster.

 

[Pika]

And he also cried he knew nothing, that the minister didn't listen to him blah blah blah... And now he's rejecting the fault on the Sports Minister that tried to ban Beyer. He's burying himself it's almost funny.

[Sombreuil]

Shocker - hopefully she’ll pull the plug on his funding and he’ll have to go.

[Pika]

The all mess headlined the national TV news. If Gailhaguet doesn't get he's DONE, he's even more stupid and/or evil I thought he was

 

[Sombreuil]

I think some of these people have been getting away with terrible things for such a long time that they can’t believe that this time no one is going to sweep it under the carpet.

[Paskud]

 

 

 

 

 

[Umebachi]

Glad to see the Minister of Sports using her authority on Didier.  He is finally having to face the consequences of his malfeasance!

Brian Joubert's defence of Didier is horrifying and reveals more about his ignorance and idiocy: willing to ignore evidence and stupidly forcing a false narrative.  

 

 

[Sombreuil]

Joubert should tread carefully and be very thoughtful about what he says - in the past various people have got away with a whole lot of behaviour that just won’t be tolerated these days.  DG has always slithered out from this sort of thing in the past but I can’t see it happening now.

[Pika]

I'm utterly disappointed by Joubert. And he was my childhood idol.

 

Now the Minister made it very clear: if DG doesn't resign, no more FFSG. He'll go either """"with dignity"""" or not.

[Paskud]

 

[rockstaryuzu]

On 2/3/2020 at 11:58 AM, Sombreuil said:

There has been a bit of a sea change in French attitudes towards these issues - in December there was an article in the Times about the writer Gabriel Matzneff who was openly and unapologetically preying on teenagers of both sexes since the 60s and writing about it - as recently as 1990 he was feted on French tv while some who had questioned his behaviour were ridiculed.  Now one of his victims has written a book and French literary circles are having to come to terms with what they were complicit in for decades.  This is perhaps another facet of that attitude in sports which is finally being addressed.

Just goes to show, these things rarely happen in a vacuum. The situation with Didier and FFSG didn't come out of nowhere and is not unique...unfortunately. 

 

Also, this is obviously going to get as ugly as heck with DG refusing to go. I mean, he was heavily implicated in the  bribes for judging scandal (Salt Lake 2002)  and that should have been the end of him right there. With every fresh new crime he's accused of but not removed from his position or punished for, his boldness would only grow. Of course he thinks he can now defy the freaking Minister for Sport. This isn't going to end until Macron gets involved, maybe not even then. It's ridiculous.   

[rockstaryuzu]

On 2/3/2020 at 12:58 PM, Sombreuil said:

Shocker - hopefully she’ll pull the plug on his funding and he’ll have to go.

She said she would, didn't she? He's trying to call her bluff but I can't imagine that she's bluffing. 

[Figure_Frenzy]

It has even been reported in a German sport news site too https://www.sport1.de/wintersport/2020/02/eiskunstlauf-frankreichs-justiz-leitet-voruntersuchung-im-fall-abitbol-ein.amp

 

It mentioned what has been already mentioned here: the court opens an investigation on the case of Sarah Abitbol, and the French ministry of sport demands that DG be subpoenaed for the case and threatens him to resign.

 

Serves him right. 

 

Update: it has also made its way to Süddeutsche Zeitung https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/sarah-abitbol-eislauf-vergewaltigung-vorwurf-trainer-1.4784415!amp

 

The article also mentioned about DG's slimy exploits during Salt Lake City 2002. It only mentioned Gilles Beyer as the suspect (the Sport1 site mentioned two other coaches that are going to be investigated, Michel Lotz and Jean-Roland Racle), and the article also speculated on the possibility of the case (ie. sexual abuse cover up) happening in other sports (swimming, etc.).

[Paskud]