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Efforts are underway to clean up sport in Canada, but if sporting bodies and athletes want to prevent abuse from occurring, we must re-engineer the structures, policies and practices that lead to abuse in the first place. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

To change for the better, Canadian sport needs leadership from the bottom up

Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University

Athletes often recount how, at the very least, sport built their character and at the very most, saved their lives. But currently, Canadian sport itself needs rebuilding.
Two members of Canada’s Olympic synchronized swim team perform during the 2016 Summer Olympics. The sport is coming under scrutiny for its culture of abuse and body-shaming. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

New allegations of abuse have grounded Canada’s artistic swimming team

Gretchen Kerr, University of Toronto and Erin Willson, University of Toronto

Allegations of abuse and harassment are not uncommon in Canadian sport. The closure of the Montréal site for Canada’s artistic swimming team is in part due to a lack of oversight for young athletes.

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  6. Montreal
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