{"id":391594,"date":"2019-08-22T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=391594"},"modified":"2019-08-23T01:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T08:52:23","slug":"usa-water-polo-ceo-ramsey-racism-bigotry-and-intolerance-have-no-place-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-water-polo-ceo-ramsey-racism-bigotry-and-intolerance-have-no-place-in-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Water Polo CEO Ramsey: &#8220;Racism, Bigotry, and Intolerance Have No Place in Sport&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the story out of Garden Grove, California, where video has surfaced of Pacifica High School athletes making \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d salutes and chanting a Nazi anthem, USA Water Polo CEO <strong>Chris Ramsey<\/strong> has issued a statement about the controversy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"296458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/safe-sport-for-water-polo-athletes-in-america\/usawp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"217,232\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"usawp\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;usawp&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-296458\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp.jpg\" alt=\"usawp\" width=\"200\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp.jpg 217w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/usawp-187x200.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\u201cRacism, bigotry, and intolerance, such as the Neo-Nazi activities attributed to members of the Pacifica High School water polo team, have no place in sport and are antithetical to the aspirations of the Olympic movement&#8221; Ramsey said in a statement to <em>Swimming World<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cSuch activities violate our member Rules of Conduct, as well as those of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and the US Center for SafeSport, to which we adhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support the efforts of the Garden Grove Unified School District to engage in a full and impartial investigation into this matter, and look forward to receiving the result of that investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/polo-has-no-place-for-nazis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Commentary: Polo has No Place for Nazis<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usawaterpolo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Water Polo<\/a> is the governing body for water polo in the United States and is a member of FINA (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Natation) which oversees aquatic competitions throughout the world. As such, the organization has no authority over high school athletics; it is the Garden Grove Unified School District which will investigate the alleged activities at Pacifica High School. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">As the country&#8217;s largest organization overseeing water polo from splashball, to age group to the senior men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s national teams, USA Water Polo is the leading voice for the sport in America.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the story out of Garden Grove, California, where video has surfaced of Pacifica High School athletes making \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d salutes and chanting a Nazi anthem, USA Water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":287367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7,12,10],"tags":[67859,61627,184,105778,60192,105695,15452,105694,70336,2302,3613,54416],"class_list":["post-391594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","category-water-polo","category-world","tag-center-for-safesport","tag-chris-ramsey","tag-fina","tag-heil-hitler","tag-michael-randazzo","tag-nazi","tag-olympic","tag-pacifica-high-school","tag-safesport","tag-usa-2","tag-usa-water-polo","tag-water-polo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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