{"id":575780,"date":"2024-01-09T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=575780"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:41:26","slug":"safesport-seeking-athlete-to-join-nationwide-study-on-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/safesport-seeking-athlete-to-join-nationwide-study-on-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"SafeSport Seeking Athlete to Join Nationwide Study on Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

SafeSport Seeking Athlete to Join Nationwide Study on Abuse<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Center for SafeSport is launching the 2024 Athlete Culture and Climate Survey, looking for adult athletes at all levels of sport to share their stories of misconduct or abuse in sporting environments.<\/p>\n

All submissions to the survey, compiled by Pacific Research and Evaluation, are anonymous. The study will be published ahead of this summer\u2019s Olympics in Paris. SafeSport last conducted a similar survey in 2020 that garnered nearly 4,000 responses.<\/p>\n

Interested athletes can find the survey link here<\/a>. Incidents can be reported here to SafeSport<\/a>, and SafeSport\u2019s resources are available at its main site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of SafeSport\u2019s mission to root out, provide resources and ultimately curtail abuse of athletes in sports settings. It is the U.S.\u2019s only independent organization devoted to finding and preventing abuse of all sorts in American Olympic sports, with athlete wellbeing at its center.<\/p>\n

The survey aims to:<\/p>\n