With how athletic centric and athletic protective sports has moved to in our climate within the coach-athlete balance of power issue, this general type of behavior by a coach is going to only more and more result in real issues for coaches moving forward (safesport if they are a federation member). So this particular case may not be an actual real issue, but the "bullying" type of behavior that can be present in some instances in these types of issues will most certainly cause problems for coaches who continue to behave in this general type of behavior.

So again this particular case may result in nothing to see here, but the general behavior of "bullying" will certainly only increase in cases like this.

Eta: many safesport violations are nothing more than breaking a sports association rule. There is no real world law broken etc you simply then get punished to not be an associated coach. But again in endurance sports it really doesn’t matter if you’re a regulated or unregulated coach. If an athlete wants you to coach them, they basically will be allowed to.

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II