Hundreds upon hundreds of young women have been sexually abused in recent decades by coaches, team doctors and fellow athletes, and the U.S. Olympic Committee repeatedly passed the buck. The individual sports federations were independent, the USOC line went, so their rules and the predators their decisions enabled were out of the USOC’s hands.
Only now, with Congress breathing down the USOC’s neck and two senators calling for CEO Scott Blackmun to resign has the USOC been moved to act. But listening to board chairman Larry Probst on Friday, it’s clear the USOC is still kicking the can down the road.