1,000 reports made since 2020, according to the National Olympic Committee commission

Since the opening of the listening unit of the Ministry of Sports in 2020, 1,000 reports of sexual violence in sport have been made, according to the first work of the commission to combat sexual violence and discrimination in sport created there. a year and a half ago by the National Olympic Committee. The latter is organizing in Paris on Thursday April 6 the first international meetings to combat sexual violence in sport.

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According to Catherine Moyon de Baecque, co-president of the commission, herself a victim when she was a high-level hammer thrower, the figure should be multiplied by 10 to be faithful to reality. “When you speak out, you have a lot to lose. Retaliation does exist”she pointed out.

“It’s too easy to say that we have to solve the problem of violence” by taking “either a structure, or an association, or a referent. He takes care of it and then we hear more about it”

Catherine Moyon de Baecque, co-president of the commission for the fight against sexual violence and discrimination in sport

at the Sports Department of Radio France

Sports federations fail to break the omerta on sexual violence. However, 80% of them have defined a prevention plan, but the staff is not sufficiently aware and the reports only come up too rarely, according to the findings of the commission.

The Commission wishes to train executives and in priority those of the Olympic delegations 500 days before the Paris Games.