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Recent abuse cases make Canadian gymnasts wonder if voices are being heard
Abby Spadafora has had trouble sleeping since a gymnastics coach in Lethbridge, Alta., was charged with sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl last week.
Trudeau rips Hockey Canada leadership over sex assault fund
BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's "hard for anyone" to have faith in Hockey Canada's leadership as revelations emerge about how the federation maintains a fund meant to partially handle sexual abuse claims.
Blues’ Thomas denies involvement in alleged 2018 sexual assault
St. Louis Blues forward Robert Thomas released a statement via Twitter on Tuesday saying he was not involved in an alleged sexual assault involving members of Canada's 2018 World Junior hockey team.
Mood in the team is fine at the moment, says Jharkhand’s Nikki Pradhan
World Cup. After two draws and one defeat in the group stage, they went down to Spain in the crossovers to go out of medal contention. In the end, they did end the tournament on a high though as they beat Japan and Canada in the classification matches to finish ninth overall in the standings.
The girls want to work hard and go again: Janneke Schopman
Much has changed in the last year. Sjoerd Marijne made way for Janneke Schopman as the head coach. Wayne Lombard quit as the scientific advisor. The face of the team and skipper Rani Rampal has been sidelined - battling injuries - which has seen goalkeeper Savita Punia assume leadership role. In their first major outing after the Tokyo Games - the World Cup - the team finished a disappointing ninth recently. They were let down by lack of on-field conversion of opportunities and poor success rate in penalty corners. In the six matches they played, India earned 31 penalty corners and converted a mere three.
Judgement against Narinder Batra will set an example for others: Aslam Sher Khan
The Delhi High Court on June 24 ordered IOA president Batra to step down immediately from his post. The court order came in a contempt petition moved by 1975 World Cup winner Aslam Sher Khan -- who was a part of the winning team that won the gold medal in the 1975 Hockey World Cup. On May 25, the Delhi High Court held that Hockey India had violated the National Sports Code by anointing Batra and CEO Elena Norman as life members and constituted a three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) to run its day-to-day affairs.
Penalty corner execution requires improvement, says Indian women's hockey team coach Schopman
World Cup debacle in the Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham from July 28 to August 8, and India will look to stage a turnaround there after finishing a lowly ninth in the World Cup, a year after their historic fourth place finish in the Tokyo Olympics. "Our performance in the World Cup was not good enough in terms of outcome. We created a lot of penalty corners which is good, but executing was not right," the Dutchwoman said a day after the team's arrival here.