Proposed Olympic law calls for SafeSport funding, government office to oversee grassroot sports

A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the legislation, which is proposed to rework the 1978 law that put the current Olympic structure in place.

The rewrite of the law, which would be called the 'Ted Stevens Olympic, Paralympic, and Grassroots Sports Act,' is proposed by the Commission on the State of the U.S. Olympics and Paralympics, a panel established by Congress in 2020 in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal. A Senate subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday titled 'Promoting a Safe Environment in U.S. Athletics.

Getting politicians to fund a new bureaucracy, even under the guise of growing grassroots sports, figures to be one of the toughest sells in the proposed legislation. In its report, the commission suggested taxes from legal sports betting, a voluntary donation box placed on IRS forms or new lotteries as possible ways of funding such an entity. The commission also suggested the new office establish an inspector general to oversee the entire Olympic movement.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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