Proposed Olympic law calls for SafeSport funding, government office to oversee grassroot sports

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A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the legislation, which is proposed to rework the 1978 law that put the current Olympic structure in place. The word "amateur" would be stripped from the law's title and would also be removed throughout the legislation in a nod to the reality that professional athletes have been integral to the modern-day Olympics for at least four decades.

Another key change would be to untether the Athletes Advisory Commission from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. That arrangement is intended to eliminate conflicts of interest inherent in housing an athlete's group under the same umbrella as the organization with which it sometimes comes into conflict.

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The rewrite of the law, which would be called the "Ted Stevens Olympic, Paralympic, and Grassroots Sports Act," is proposed by the Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympics and Paralympics, a panel established by Congress in 2020 in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal.

A Senate subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday titled "Promoting a Safe Environment in U.S. Athletics." SafeSport CEO Ju'Riese Colon and commission co-chair, Dionne Koller, are among those scheduled to testify.

The commission released a 277-page report last