Pablo Torre

And, you know, according to the U.S.

Center for Safe Sport, which is the organization created by Congress as a nonprofit to investigate women,

these types of allegations.

Coaches are the most common perpetrators of sexual contact also.

And P.S., the U.S.

Center for Safe Sport has been investigating this same case, some of these same allegations.

And in early October, they ruled that Lars Jorgensen was banned from coaching for life.

And I just cannot help but remember that this is the coach that Riley Gaines called one of her best friends.

One of my best friends.

in her best-selling memoir that came out in May of 2024.

And look, I get that this book was probably on the way back from the printer by then because the lawsuit, you know, this was all filed in April of 2024.

And I want to just be realistic about publishing timelines and all of that.

But when we come to this question of who are the men we are concerned about in sports who have been

abusive allegedly and predatory allegedly in these spaces that we should be worried about when it comes to our daughters, our girls, our female athletes.

What has Riley Gaines said about Coach Lars and these allegations?

I found one tweet from a few days after the allegations became public.

And it reads, in part, quote,

She goes on to write, End quote.

And I just can't help but just see her stance that she's alluding to there as her larger stance, as if the two things that we've now covered here, the experience she had with Leah Thomas and the revelations she says she has now learned in the spring of 2024 about one of her best friends, Coach Lars, who is now this alleged sexual predator,

that this all can fit together quite neatly, and it's all been consistent this whole time, even though when it comes to the number of words she's devoted to one versus the other, that actually is a race that's not even close.