Mark Ladwig, U.S. Figure Skating’s top athlete leader who last year made controversial comments defending a pairs skater suspended for alleged sexual abuse, no longer holds athlete leadership roles within the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee or U.S. Figure Skating.
Ladwig has been replaced as skating’s athlete representative to the USOPC and as chair of the USFS Athletes Advisory Committee, a spokesperson for USFS confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
A former pairs skater who competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Ladwig has been succeeded in both roles by women who also competed at those Vancouver Olympic Games, one of whom said the topic of sexual abuse in her sport “is of the utmost importance.