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The former national swimming coach Stefan Lurz is said to have sexually coerced and harassed female athletes for years at the successful Würzburg location.
Five of his former swimmers, some of whom were underage at the time, and numerous other people made serious allegations in SPIEGEL a few days ago.
Lurz then resigned.
A few weeks earlier, a dozen gymnasts reported psychological violence and training in pain.
Allegedly exercised by Gabriele Frehse, her former trainer at the Olympic base in Chemnitz.
At around the same time, female boxers from Baden-Württemberg spoke of sexual abuse by several trainers and of how they received threatening phone calls after confiding in the association.
Würzburg, Chemnitz or Baden-Württemberg.
It takes a long time for brave or desperate female athletes to dare to take such a step: For fear of defending themselves against persons in authority;
out of shame and worry about losing the sport they love.
Caused by firmly established structures in sport in which people look the other way and remain silent.
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