A formal complaint has been filed with USA Wrestling by some of the USA’s top female wrestlers, claiming unfair and unequal treatment compared to the male wrestlers.
They cite the Amateur Sports Act which requires that men’s and women’s Olympic sports be treated equally.
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In the grievance, the women claim the following:
USA Wrestling enforces disciplinary sanctions unequally between their male athletes and their female athletes.
USA Wrestling imposes unequal requirements and burdens on their female athletes for US amateur representation.
USA Wrestling offers disparate monetary incentives between their men’s and women’s programs.
USA Wrestling’s four-year High Performance Plan (HHP) visions for the treatment of their male and female athletes this quadrennium are unequal and place an unfair burden on female athletes.
USA Wrestling allows their National coaching staff to exhibit inappropriate predatory behavior towards outside female athletes and outside female training institutions.
USA Wrestling displays a higher tolerance for inappropriate, sub-standard coaching behavior over their female athletes.
USA Wrestling provides unequal caliber coaches for their female athletes as compared to their male athletes.
USA Wrestling provides a disproportionately low number of funded coaching positions for their women’s programs.
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