At the last Paralympic Games, in Tokyo, Parker Egbert reached the height of his athletic career, competing for the United States in two swimming events. But Mr. Egbert, 21, has since walked away from the sport. He said in a federal lawsuit in 2022 that he was repeatedly physically and sexually abused by his Paralympic teammate, including at the Tokyo Games.
With another Paralympics now underway in Paris, he is asserting that the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee knowingly put him in danger by assigning him to room with the teammate, whose conduct at least six other athletes had previously complained about to the U.