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Dalilah Sappenfield, the U.S. Olympic pairs figure skating coach, received a lifetime ban from the U.S. Center for SafeSport on Wednesday for violations that include emotional and physical misconduct, per Christine Brennan of USA Today.
In October 2021, Brennan published a detailed report on abuse allegations against Sappenfield from 2016 U.S. pairs champion Tarah Kayne.
As part of the allegations she reported to a SafeSport investigator, Kayne detailed an instance "in which the coach's constant verbal abuse, filled with sexual comments, led her to cut her left wrist with a razor blade in the summer of 2019 in her dorm room at the U.