TORONTO — If 2022 was a defining year for Canadian athlete activism, the snowball started rolling back in January.
Dave Bedford, a high-profile Canadian sport executive for four decades, retired as Athletics Canada’s CEO after the exposure of a series of sexually graphic tweets that stretched back months.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
At the recent 45th Canadian Sport Awards, bobsledder Cynthia Appiah, who was among the most vocal in her sport’s fight for change, won the Athlete Voice Award as the top athletes’ rep. Kim Shore and Amelia Cline, former gymnasts and founders of Gymnasts for Change, were among the first to testify before members of Parliament for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women’s hearings on the safety of women and girls in sport, which began a month ago.
Erin Willson, the president of AthletesCAN, the association of national team athletes, said she has “absolutely” never seen a year like 2022.Article content Numerous sport organizations have been under the federal government’s microscope amid what Pascale St-Onge called a “safe-sport crisis” in Canada. The government’s new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner , meant to be a central hub for safe sport complaints, opened in June.Article content
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