A prominent USA Badminton board member has recommended that the national governing body fire its chief executive Linda French, according to a letter obtained by the Southern California News Group.
The letter by the board member, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an Olympic swimming champion, comes against the backdrop of Congressional investigations into whether French and other USA Badminton handled allegations of sexual abuse against a former U.S. national team coach and another sex abuse case involving a young female player in accordance to U.S. Center for SafeSport guidelines.
Hogshead-Makar’s recommendation also comes a month after Alistair Casey, a USA Badminton employee who alerted the U.S. Center for SafeSport to French and the NGB’s handling of the two sexual abuse cases, was fired.
“I believe Linda should be terminated because, in the totality of circumstances, I no longer trust her actions to be in the best interests of the sport,” wrote Hogshead-Makar, who was appointed to the USA Badminton board in June 2020. “Rather, she is interested in defending herself to the detriment of the sport. She does not act definitively forward with any plan, one that presumably should have been changed during the pandemic to focus on issues that ‘normal times’ don’t allow for.”
The U.S. Center for SafeSport on Nov. 4 placed temporary restrictions on French’s duties regarding sexual abuse cases, according to SafeSport documents obtained by SCNG.
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