Under the title "The End of Silence", the French sports newspaper L'Equipe blew up on Wednesday an issue which I described as being silent for several years, which is the violence and sexual assaults that some maths have been subjected to by their coaches.
The newspaper monitored the testimonies of former skiing heroines, and Helen Goddard, who represented the French team at the end of the seventies, said that her coach, Gil Bayer, had sex with her when she was 13 or 14 years old, when she was a minor and an adult man.
The 10-time French champion, Sarah Abitbol, also accused the same coach of repeated sexual assault against her between 1990 and 1992, when she was in her mid-decade.
The "End of Silence" campaign revealed the story of snowboarding champion Ann Lin, who was also the victim of rape by her coach, a child who was just 12 years old.
The newspaper also indicated that many swimming heroines accused the coaches of sexually assaulting them in the late 1980s during the training camps in which they participated with teams and national teams.
The French Academy, Dr. Aurelie Pankuyak (29 years old), revealed last November horrific details of the sexual assaults that she was subjected to from her former coach in basketball, confirming that she had considered suicide to get rid of the heinous exploitation she was subjected to, she said. .
In an interview with the French magazine "Le Pen", Pankuyak said that her coach took advantage of her passion for basketball and started raping her when she was fifteen years old, and he continued to do so, taking advantage of her silence and fear for three years.