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Missouri QB Beau Pribula's timetable TBD after ankle injuryMissouri quarterback Beau Pribula's timeline to return from an ankle injury is undetermined, head coach Eli Drinkwitz announced on Wednesday.,Pribula sustained the injury in the second half when the then-No. 15 Tigers lost 17-10 to Vanderbilt on Saturday. The Penn State transfer sustained the injury...

Jean Lopez, Previously Banned After Multiple Reports of Abusing Taekwondo Athletes, Can Coach AgainLess than a year after the U.S. Center for SafeSport declared that it was banning Jean Lopez from taekwondo for a “decades long pattern of sexual misconduct,” the center has said Lopez can go back to coaching. Today, SafeSport notified Heidi Gilbert and Kay Poe, who had reported to SafeSport that Lo...

Arbitrator Lifts Ban On Taekwondo Star Steven Lopez After Woman Who Accused Him Of Sexual Abuse Declines To TestifyThree-time Olympic taekwondo medalist Steven Lopez, whom the U.S. Center for SafeSport declared permanently ineligible because of “sexual misconduct involving a minor” in September, has been reinstated following an arbitration hearing, reports USA Today....

Another Empty Congressional Hearing About Sexual Abuse In Sports Came And Went 

With many of the cameras and reporters gone, the fourth Senate hearing about sexual abuse in Olympic sports took on a different tone. There was no yelling. There was no demanding of answers. CEOs of the organizations that oversee Olympic sports had a few chuckles. The grandstanding was gone, just th...

SafeSport Bans Taekwondo's Steven Lopez, But Will It Last? 

The U.S. Center for SafeSport has banned three-time Olympic taekwondo medalist Steven Lopez, declaring him permanently ineligible earlier this week for “sexual misconduct involving a minor.” According to a copy of the notice of the director’s decision and other SafeSport records, which Deadspin revi...

This Taekwondo Demonstration Is So Cool It Looks Fake

At this year’s World Taekwondo Hanmadang, an annual martial arts festival held in South Korea, a team of South Korean taekwondo experts from the Kukkiwon Demonstration Team put on a hell of a show. Please enjoy these insanely athletic martial artists flying around the stage and breaking the shit out...

Taekwondo Coach Reinstated By SafeSport Following Brief Ban Over "Decades Long Pattern Of Sexual Misconduct"

Jean Lopez—the former U.S. taekwondo coach who was banned in April 2018 following a report from SafeSport that described “a decades long pattern of sexual misconduct by an older athlete/coach abusing his power to groom, manipulate and, ultimately, sexually abuse younger female athletes”—will be rein...

Leaders From Gymnastics And The USOC Sat Down For A Congressional Grilling

The heads of the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, USA Swimming, USA Taekwondo, USA Volleyball, and the U.S. Center for SafeSport were grilled today by members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee about their roles in protecting member athletes from sexual abuse....