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The US Olympic & Paralympic Committee has fired a coach and a director after\u00a0The Associated Press reported\u00a0that the coach was accused of sexually abusing a young biathlete, causing her so much distress that she attempted suicide.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing our thorough internal evaluation, we can confirm that Gary Colliander and Eileen Carey are no longer affiliated with the USOPC,\u201d spokesman Jon Mason told the AP.<\/p>\n
He refused to provide a reason, saying only that Colliander was put on\u00a0administrative leave from the Paralympic team in December\u00a0\u2014 days after the AP report on the alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n
The two were fired on March 14.<\/p>\n
Colliander was accused of sexually abusing Grace Boutot, a biathlete he coached at the Maine Winter Sports Center over four years beginning in 2006 when she was 15, the AP reported.<\/p>\n
Colliander quit the job after Boutot\u2019s October 2010 suicide attempt and was later hired by the US Paralympic Nordic team.<\/p>\n
Carey was the Maine center\u2019s vice president at the time of the abuse and had discussed it with Boutot\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
After leaving the center in December 2010, Carey was hired as a coach and later promoted to director of the Paralympic team. She was there when Colliander came onboard.<\/p>\n
Mason declined to say whether Carey hired Colliander or how the Paralympic team vets the coaches they hire.<\/p>\n
The US Center for SafeSport, created to investigate sex-abuse allegations in Olympic sports in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar US Gymnastics scandal, launched an investigation into Colliander in December.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease note that Mr. Colliander\u2019s case remains active with SafeSport,\u201d Mason told the AP.<\/p>\n
Colliander\u2019s lawyer, Simone Montoya, said officials did not tell Colliander why he was fired and he \u201cadamantly denies any wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior, as alleged.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colliander \u201cis committed to full and transparent cooperation into this matter,\u201d Montoya told the AP in an email. \u201cHe denies any conduct in violation of the SafeSport Code or applicable laws and policies and maintains that he has always upheld professional standards throughout his career.\u201d<\/p>\n
AP phone and email messages seeking comment from Carey were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n
Boutot was among a half-dozen Olympians and other biathletes who came forward after the AP reported last year that\u00a0Olympian Joanne Reid was sexually abused and harassed for years, according to SafeSport findings.<\/p>\n
Biathlon is a winter sport that\u00a0combines cross-country skiing with target shooting.<\/p>\n
The AP generally does not identify victims of sexual abuse except in cases where they publicly identify themselves or share their stories openly.<\/p>\n
Boutot, 34, told the AP that when Colliander began coaching her, he gave her a lot of attention, including inappropriate touching.<\/p>\n
The conduct escalated after she turned 18 to \u201ckissing, sexual fondling and oral sex,\u201d according to a treatment summary by her therapist, Jacqueline Pauli-Ritz, shared with the AP.<\/p>\n
Boutot said she begged Colliander to stop but he ignored her. She became severely depressed and started cutting herself, according to the therapist\u2019s notes.<\/p>\n
In September 2010, Pauli-Ritz contacted Colliander and told him Boutot was suffering from major depression and he should stop coaching her, the treatment summary said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did not do this until after the suicide attempt,\u201d Pauli-Ritz wrote, referring to Boutot\u2019s Oct. 7, 2010, overdose on antidepressants during a Utah training camp.<\/p>\n
Colliander resigned the next day. He took a coaching job in Colorado and was hired in December 2016 by the US Paralympic team. He was associate director of high performance for US Paralympics Nordic Skiing before being fired.<\/p>\n
Boutot tried to keep racing but faced discrimination by the center\u2019s staff and teammates, who blamed her for his departure, according to a letter she wrote to the Maine Sports Center\u2019s board in January 2011.<\/p>\n
Boutot\u2019s mother, Karen Gorman, had repeated discussions and email exchanges with Carey and the center\u2019s CEO, Andy Shepard, about the abuse her daughter suffered, Gorman told the AP.<\/p>\n
In an Oct. 22, 2010, email, Gorman told them, \u201cthe issue of any coach-athlete relationships \u2026 must be scrutinized\u201d by the Maine sports center.<\/p>\n
Carey responded that she was \u201cworking really hard\u201d to make that happen. \u201cI am very supportive of having positive things come out of this situation for everyone involved,\u201d she said in an Oct. 25, 2010, email.<\/p>\n
But, Boutot told the AP, no investigation was ever conducted.<\/p>\n
In a 2011 complaint she filed with the Maine Human Rights Commission, Boutot accused the Maine sports center of failing to prevent Colliander\u2019s sexual misconduct and retaliating against her when she reported it \u2014 denying her coaching and ending financing of equipment, travel, athlete housing and other US Biathlon competition-related expenses.<\/p>\n
The center settled for $75,000 in September 2011 and Boutot quit racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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