Underwater : The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muchnick, Irvin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child sexual abuse in sports.

Swimming.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : ECW Press, 2024.

Summary:

Backed by hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of USA Swimming files subpoenaed by the FBI, Irvin Muchnick uncovers a generation of cover-ups involving some of the sport's biggest names.

Contents:

Partial List of Characters in This Book

The Survivors

The Non-Survivors

The Sketchy Coaches

The Whistleblowers

The Functionaries

The Flunking Politicians

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Public Eye

Chapter 2: The Rest of the Story

Chapter 3: Sarah Ehekircher

Chapter 4: Background of the Background Checks

Chapter 5: Death Becomes Them

Chapter 6: Welcome to the “United States Sports Insurance Company” … in Sunny Barbados

Chapter 7: David Berkoff Blasts Off. His Coaches Fade Away.

Chapter 8: Michael Phelps’s Home Team

Consent Order

Chapter 9: Sex, Lies, And Alex Pussieldi

Chapter 10: Hall of Fame? Or Hall of Justice?

Chapter 11: About Paul Bergen

Chapter 12: Where the Bad Guys Go

Chapter 13: George Gibney — Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in Sports History

Chapter 14: Gibney Slips Away Again

Wheat Ridge Police Report

Chapter 15: Congressman Miller and Congresswoman Speier Backstroke From Controversy

Chapter 16: Gutter Spillover

Chapter 17: The New Solutions Were the Same as the Old Solutions

Acknowledgments and Notes

The Author

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ISBN:

9781778523304

1778523307

OCLC:

1455113059