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USA Swimming Reportedly Ignored 'Hundreds' of Sexual Abuse Cases

USA Swimming officials reportedly ignored hundreds of sexual abuse cases involving its coaches for decades.

According to investigatory documents obtained by the Southern California News Group's Scott M. Reid and published Friday, a pervasive "complacency" among officials caused USA Swimming to miss "opportunities to overhaul a culture within American swimming where the sexual abuse of underage swimmers by their coaches and others in positions of power within the sport was commonplace and even accepted by top officials and coaches."

The allegations piled up during Chuck Wielgus' tenure as USA Swimming's executive director, which lasted from 1997-2017.