Ian Moss out as Gymnastics Canada CEO after athletes call for his resignation cdnpoli
The governing body said in a release that it is moving forward with “substantive changes in leadership” after months of calls for Moss’s resignation from Gymnasts for Change Canada, an advocacy group made up of hundreds of former and current gymnasts.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The report found the “lack of integrated national standards and leadership to be the Achilles heel of Canada’s gymnastics’ ecosystem,” and recommended steps toward accountability and promoting athlete well-being. “There were several allegations ,” Moss said at the hearing. “That’s the point. We have to do due diligence in terms of facts to simple as that.”Article content
He originally faced charges of sexual assault, child luring of a person under 16, sexual interference of a person under 16, making sexually explicit material available to a person under 16, and indecent exposure to a person under 16.Article content
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