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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Malik Ouzia

Scale of physical and emotional abuse at British Gymnastics laid bare in damning independent report

The culture of fear inside British Gymnastics has been laid bare in a devastating report which reveals children as young as seven were subjected to extraordinary levels of physical and emotional abuse in a system which prioritised medals over the welfare of its athletes.

The independent Whyte Review, commissioned by UK Sport and Sport England in 2020 at a cost of £3million after widespread abuse allegations emerged in the media, received more than 400 submissions is perhaps the most damning report ever written about a British Olympic sport.

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