{"id":1835933,"date":"2023-02-05T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835933"},"modified":"2023-02-05T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:09:54","slug":"former-u-s-snowboarders-and-olympians-sue-coach-federation-and-olympic-committee-for-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-u-s-snowboarders-and-olympians-sue-coach-federation-and-olympic-committee-for-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Snowboarders and Olympians Sue Coach, Federation and Olympic Committee for Sex Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-u-s-snowboarders-and-olympians-sue-coach-federation-and-olympic-committee-for-sex-trafficking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"speakable\">Three former U.S. members are suing their former coach. Three former members of U.S. Ski &#038; Snowboard Team are suing their former coach. The national federation, its CEO and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Olympic &#038; Paralympic Committee<\/a> Multiple reports allege that sex trafficking, harassment, as well as enabling and covering multiple acts of sexual assault or misconduct, are all factors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Callan Chythlook -Sifsof and Rosey Fletcher, Olympians, claimed in their lawsuit that Peter Foley, Gale, and Callan Choythlook -Sifsof were the defendants. &#8220;Tiger&#8221; Shaw and the USOPC &#8220;conspired together and acted in concert to their mutual benefit.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commit unlawful acts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three women claim that Foley used his trust position to their advantage &#8220;coerce sexual acts through force, manipulation, emotional abuse, intimidation and retaliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE SPORTS COVERAGE AT FOXNEWS.COM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/fletcher.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rosey Fletcher of the U.S. competes in the women&#039;s parallel giant slalom snowboard qualifying at Park City Mountain Resort during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games in Utah.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Rosey Fletcher, a U.S. competitor in the women&#8217;s parallel giant-slalom snowboard qualifier at Park City Mountain Resort during Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Jamie Squire\/Getty Image<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fletcher, a 2006 Bronze medalist, claims Foley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/sex-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sexually assaulted<\/a> She assaulted her at 19 and again in a post-race event at Olympics. O&#8217;Malley claimed that Foley sexually assaulted her in sanctioned competitions as well as in an elevator in front Fletcher. She also verbally and mentally abused her until she was 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foley began groping Erin and forcibly trying to kiss her \u2014 all without her consent,&#8221; According to the lawsuit. &#8220;For nearly 20 years, coaches and executives at both organizations enabled Foley&#8217;s behavior, refused to act and helped cover up Foley&#8217;s behavior, allowing him to continue his pattern of abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chythlook Sifsof claims she was raped and beaten by a male coach &#8220;nearly three times her age from an opposing team&#8221; She was 16 when she competed in the 2005 World Junior Championships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/callan.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Callan Chythlook-Sifsof of the U.S. descends the course as she finished sixth during women&#039;s snowboard cross qualification at the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup Dec. 15, 2010, in Telluride, Colo.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Callan Chaythlook-Sifsof from the U.S. descends this course, having finished sixth during the women&#8217;s cross qualification at the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup Dec. 15. 2010, in Telluride.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Doug Pensinger\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lindsey Nikola, a former employee of the Federation, stated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/events\/in-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a separate lawsuit<\/a> Thursday: Foley &#8220;sexually harassed and sexually assaulted&#8221; she forced her to take nude pictures in hotel rooms at two World Cup ski races.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/new-jersey-high-school-swimmer-disqualified-race-size-american-flag-cap-dad-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEW JERSEY HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMER DISQUALIFIED FROM RACE OVER SIZE OF AMERICAN FLAG ON CAP, DAD CLAIMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Had the USSS taken the safety of their young athletes and employees seriously, Foley&#8217;s behavior could have been prevented,&#8221; The lawsuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/rosey-fletcher-1.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rosey Fletcher of the U.S. competes on her way to the bronze medal in the women&#039;s snowboard parallel giant slalom finals at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games Feb. 23, 2006, in Bardonecchia, Italy. \u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Rosey Fletcher from the U.S. competes in her bid to win the bronze medal at the women&#8217;s snowboard parallel giant slalom competitions at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games February 23rd, 2006 in Bardonecchia. \u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Shaun Botterill\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&#038;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&#038;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foley was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/peter-foley-no-longer-employed-u-s-ski-snowboard-sexual-misconduct-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fired by the USSS<\/a> In March, just after ESPN investigated the crime,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three former U.S. members are suing their former coach. Three former members of U.S. Ski &#038; Snowboard Team are suing their former coach. The national federation, its CEO and the U.S. Olympic &#038; Paralympic Committee Multiple reports allege that sex trafficking, harassment, as well as enabling and covering multiple acts of sexual assault or misconduct, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1835936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4024,4384,15472,17678,5301,7937,17679,7170,4444,7238],"class_list":["post-1835933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-coach","tag-committee","tag-federation","tag-olympians","tag-olympic","tag-sex","tag-snowboarders","tag-sue","tag-trafficking","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}