Award-winning Ont. track coach fired for 'reckless' social media comments

Track runners are seen in this file image. Steve Boyd compared University of Guelph track and field athletes to the experience faced by prisoners of war who conspire with their captors in social-media posts earlier this month.

"Queen's University fully supports Canada's Safe Sport actions to prevent abuse, harassment and bullying. The university had no choice but to take assertive action in this instance to make it clear that Mr. Boyd's berating and victim-blaming comments do not reflect the values of the university and we certainly do not condone them."

"It would be symbolic," he told The Canadian Press on Thursday. "It would be giving back the thing of value that Guelph protected Dave in order to have. So I just thought there's something eloquent about that because it's Guelph on the title, and if they covered up for this guy, which they clearly did, they did it because they wanted that thing of value.

"And then I have an email in which she says, 'You can't say anything to anyone in any form, whatsoever about this story.' And forever. And I said, 'Well, this is going to be going on for years and it's the biggest story in our sport and I'm a senior person in the sport . . . I was told I would never ever be able to speak on this issue on pain of firing.

The 40-year-old Coolsaet, a two-time Olympian in the marathon, was stung by suggestions he knew of any alleged abuse by Scott-Thomas, his former longtime coach. He said he reached out to Brown when he heard about the allegations in December. "But he has no credibility on it because he worked so closely with Dave. He would have spent more time with Dave at that time and after than anybody else, so he would have seen how much time for instance Dave was spending with Megan. So I don't know . . .

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