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🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. |
0:02.7 | On today's programme, the author Leia Oopie on growing up in Albania under a strict communist |
0:08.1 | regime, the journalist Rosie Kynchen on Horticultural Therapy, a listener on discovering her grandmother's |
0:15.3 | hidden artistic talents, and we speak to a woman who leads one of the newest and most trusted |
0:21.1 | English news services in Ukraine. |
0:23.4 | Olga Ridenko, editor of the Kiev Independent, reveals the personal impact of covering the |
0:29.0 | war. |
0:30.0 | But first, on Thursday, the White Review into British Gymnastics was finally published. |
0:36.5 | The investigation that began almost two years ago led by Anne White's QC and co-commissioned |
0:41.6 | by UK Sport and Sport England looked into accusations of bullying, abuse and discrimination |
0:48.4 | after numerous British gymnasts spoke out. |
0:51.5 | The result? |
0:52.5 | A damning report that makes for shocking reading. |
0:56.0 | It details the continued mistreatment of gymnasts in Britain, including sexual assault, illustrating |
1:01.6 | as one gymnast put it, the child abuse of athletes that was taking place and how physical |
1:07.0 | and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Britain were systemic. |
1:11.4 | From Olympians to local gymnasts, the investigation received more than 400 written submissions, |
1:17.3 | which some claim represent just a tip of the iceberg. |
1:21.0 | Of those, more than 40% described physically abusive behaviour by coaches, more than 50% |
1:27.3 | reported an element of emotional abuse, and more than 25% included reference to excessive |
1:33.3 | weight management. |
1:34.8 | 39 of those cases were considered so serious they've been passed to local authorities |
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