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Brazil bars Australian swim coach from Olympics over sex abuse claims

May 24, 2016 ·  By Agence France-Presse for www.rappler.com/

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The Brazilian Olympic Committee has barred an Australian swim coach from participating in the Rio Games after accusations he sexually abused teenage girls

OLYMPIC DECISION. Brazilian officials decided that former Australian national women's coach Scott Volkers will not be welcome to participate in the Rio Games. File photo by Alexandro Vlachos/EPA

OLYMPIC DECISION. Brazilian officials decided that former Australian national women’s coach Scott Volkers will not be welcome to participate in the Rio Games. File photo by Alexandro Vlachos/EPA

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The Brazilian Olympic Committee has barred an Australian swim coach who works in Brazil from participating in the Rio Games after accusations he sexually abused teenage girls, officials said Wednesday.

The committee said it had decided not to issue accreditation for the Olympics to Scott Volkers, a former Australian national women’s coach who was accused in 2002 of abusing girls he coached in the 1980s – accusations he denied.

“We’ve examined his case, and we will not accredit him,” the committee told AFP, without giving further details on the decision.

The president of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), John Coates, had written to his Brazilian counterpart last month asking him to consider the allegations against Volkers, who now coaches a top-flight club in Brazil and had been on the Brazilian national team’s coaching roster for the Olympics.

In the letter, which was seen by AFP, Coates said “the AOC respectfully requests your consideration of Mr. Volkers’s appropriateness to be accredited as an official within your Olympic team and generally engaged as a sporting official within your country.”

“We do not think that he should be involved on the pool deck, in the Olympic Village, or at all in the Rio Olympic Games.”

Volkers was committed to stand trial on 7 counts of indecent treatment of a girl under 16 – charges he denied – but the case was dropped 6 months later.

Coates told reporters in Sydney earlier Wednesday he had not yet received official confirmation of Brazil’s decision, but that he would be “pleased” to see Volkers excluded.

He said he could not ignore the need to inform other national bodies of “serious information concerning any Australians who may be working within their sporting system,” even as the AOC works on implementing national child protection policies at home.

The lobbying from the AOC comes after Coates appeared at Australia’s long-running Royal Commission into how institutions including churches, schools and sporting clubs have handled child sexual abuse in the past.

Coates told the commission that the AOC had not recorded any child abuse issue regarding any of its teams so far but was keen to bolster measures to protect younger athletes.

Earlier this month the AOC insisted that all Australian sports adopt child protection policies if their athletes are to compete at the Olympics in the future.

The measure puts the issue of child abuse on an equal footing with drugs in sport.

“Every sport in Australia has to comply with the World Anti-Doping Code, why shouldn’t the same importance be placed on child abuse,” Coates said at the time. – Rappler.com

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