The Commission on the Future of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, established by Congress in 2020, last week issued its long-anticipated report. This 277-page document offers 12 recommendations, including the first serious proposals to wrestle with USOPC's blatant failures in handling the sexual abuse crisis in youth sports. One of those recommendations would amount to the first fundamental retooling of America's sports system since the Ted Stevens Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
The committee's Recommendation No. 3 calls for spinning off the U.S. Center for SafeSport as a government-funded entity, thereby removing it from both the influence and the administrative structure of USOPC and its national sport governing bodies, known as NGBs.
