U.S. Rowing has announced it is rescinding honors for the late Olympic rowing coach Ted Nash after an independent investigation found “compelling evidence” of child sexual abuse. The probe was launched after former athlete Jennifer Fox revealed Nash began abusing her when she was 13 years old. In 2018, Fox directed the film “The Tale,” a narrative memoir based in part on Nash’s abuse. At the time, she did not mention Nash by name. She publicly accused him of abuse last year when she spoke to The New York Times and Democracy Now!
Jennifer Fox: “And I don’t doubt that Ted did good in his sport, but the reality is, this other story of the horror that he inflicted on me, and possibly many, many others, had never been told. And I think it’s very important to bring this other story out to the world now and to show this other part of the man that people put on a pedestal and made into a god. It’s a very important act to stand up to power in this way, for me and for others.”
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