National sport organizations face safe-sport deadline, risk losing funding

A flurry of national sport organizations signing up with the new Office of the Sports Integrity Commissioner is expected in the coming days, or their funding could get cut off.

The office with lawyer and former artistic swimmer Sarah-Eve Pelletier at its helm was established as one remedy to Canada’s safe-sport crisis.

Athletes have been testifying before parliamentary committees in recent months about the sexual, emotional and physical abuse they’ve experienced pursuing their sport at the highest level.

Most national sport bodies have an in-house process for complaints, which athletes said left them at risk for retaliation and more abuse.

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