Thousands of reports go in.
Almost nothing comes out.
SafeSport calls it “trust.”
I call it a liability black hole. open.substack.com/pub/thesafes...
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Thousands of reports go in.
Almost nothing comes out.
SafeSport calls it “trust.”
I call it a liability black hole. open.substack.com/pub/thesafes...
SafeSport is sending a delegation to the 2026 Olympics. Meanwhile, cases sit unresolved for months and most reports end in administrative closure. There's always room in the budget for PR, less so for accountability.
New leadership won’t matter until SafeSport proves practice matches PR. Audit the Administrative Closures and release the data.
www.sportstravelmagazine.com/sportstravel...
The U.S. built SafeSport to restore trust after institutional failure. Nine years later, the process still produces silence, delays, and unresolved cases.
This series examines why.
substack.com/@thesafespor...
Thousands of reports go in.
Almost nothing comes out.
SafeSport calls it “trust.”
I call it a liability black hole. open.substack.com/pub/thesafes...
The U.S. built SafeSport to restore trust after institutional failure. Nine years later, the process still produces silence, delays, and unresolved cases.
This series examines why.
substack.com/@thesafespor...
New leadership won’t matter until SafeSport proves practice matches PR. Audit the Administrative Closures and release the data.
www.sportstravelmagazine.com/sportstravel...
SafeSport is sending a delegation to the 2026 Olympics. Meanwhile, cases sit unresolved for months and most reports end in administrative closure. There's always room in the budget for PR, less so for accountability.
Until SafeSport announces they are going to stop claiming jurisdiction over thousands of cases, sitting on them for months, and then closing them with no explanation, effectively protecting sexual predator, none of these other changes matter.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
AP says SafeSport logged 8,000+ reports in 2024 and plans third-party “surveys” and “focus groups.” Great. Now audit the case handling. Start with the Administrative Closures.
apnews.com/article/safe...
AP says SafeSport logged 8,000+ reports in 2024 and plans third-party “surveys” and “focus groups.” Great. Now audit the case handling. Start with the Administrative Closures.
apnews.com/article/safe...
Just a quick reminder to believe women.
“If I say something, I may get punished without being told why,” read a quote from an employee [of the U.S. Center for SafeSport]. This is an eerily familiar feeling for some complainants to SafeSport.
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
“If I say something, I may get punished without being told why,” read a quote from an employee [of the U.S. Center for SafeSport]. This is an eerily familiar feeling for some complainants to SafeSport.
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
Minnesota is sending the largest contingent of athletes to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, and several winter-sport communities have spoken out about recent events. Yet SafeSport, whose entire $20M mandate is “athlete safety”, has offered no comment on ICE agents being used for Olympic security.
Every system tells you who it protects. You just have to pay attention to outcomes, not promises.
Olympic gold medalist Benita Fitzgerald Mosley named SafeSport CEO todayheadline
DENVER -- The U.S. Center for SafeSport announced Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as its new CEO on Tuesday, placing the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in charge of rebooting an agency that has been plagued with problems over…
Until SafeSport announces they are going to stop claiming jurisdiction over thousands of cases, sitting on them for months, and then closing them with no explanation, effectively protecting sexual predator, none of these other changes matter.
www.espn.com/olympics/sto...
"When you make a report to SafeSport, you immediately have a target on your back." 100% accurate.
Whatever replaces the current SafeSport playbook needs to address the protection of those who are brave enough to file a complaint against a predator in sport.
horsenetwork.com/2025/03/i-dr...
SafeSport found actual violations in just 11.7% of cases. And let's not forget that this is almost exclusively a list of criminals and people investigated by the NGB prior to SafeSport's existence. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted for what?
www.thesportsexaminer.com/safesport-an...
"If SafeSport cannot move faster, cannot operate transparently, cannot honor its mandate, then it must be dismantled and replaced with something that can."
Incapable or unwilling?
"If SafeSport cannot move faster, cannot operate transparently, cannot honor its mandate, then it must be dismantled and replaced with something that can."
This is how it's done. SafeSport claims jurisdiction over cases, closes the vast majority of them, and waits for the court decision before they make their own ruling. The goal is as little liability as possible.
Because their disciplinary list just mimics court decisions. They don't make many decisions on cases. Claim jurisdiction which means no liability. Then either close them, or wait for the courts to basically tell them what to do.
Because their disciplinary list just mimics court decisions. They don't make many decisions on cases. Claim jurisdiction which means no liability. Then either close them, or wait for the courts to basically tell them what to do.
Because their disciplinary list just mimics court decisions. They don't make many decisions on cases. Claim jurisdiction which means no liability. Then either close them, or wait for the courts to basically tell them what to do.
