{"id":393999,"date":"2024-05-15T05:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393999"},"modified":"2024-05-15T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T07:06:37","slug":"aussie-olympian-blacklisted-for-life-after-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393999","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Olympian blacklisted for life after sexual misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeffn Australian figure skater who appeared at three <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Olympic Games\">Olympic Games<\/a> has been banned for life from competing in the US after an investigation found he engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Kerry, an opening ceremony flag-bearer\ufeff at the Beijing 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Winter Olympics\">Winter Olympics<\/a>, has been blacklisted on the public database of the US Center for SafeSport, the country&#x27;s leading investigator into abuse in sport.<\/p>\n<p>The SafeSport database states that Kerry&#x27;s ban is &quot;subject to appeal&quot; and says it&#x27;s &quot;not final yet&quot;.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-david-fifita-roosters-contract-withdrawn-titans-panthers\/771349d1-5f32-4125-9e57-e8ba4896a011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Where is Dave?&#x27;: Titans boss grilled on bizarre backflip<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-wayne-bennett-south-sydney-rabbitohs-coach-contract-deal\/b9ac4337-e09c-4c38-8555-2def454c7728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bunnies land supercoach Bennett on $3m deal<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/surfing-2024-australian-poor-sportsmanship-incident-isa-junior-world-championships\/6a00fd3d-9670-4adf-8a89-53334c9d0552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Aussie targeted in bizarre surfing furore<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kerry&#x27;s entry in the database also includes a &quot;no contact directive&quot;, aimed at preventing him from contacting other involved parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney product is permanently barred from taking part in any event sponsored and\/or organised by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, as well as any US figure-skating body.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d4338bb4-62fd-40f9-a345-4258229f8921\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d4338bb4-62fd-40f9-a345-4258229f8921\" alt=\"Brendan Kerry.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SafeSport policy describes sexual misconduct as offences that include, but are not limited to: sexual harassment, assault, rape, exploitation, hazing or other sexually inappropriate conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The governing body considers anyone under the age of 18 to be a minor.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Wide World of Sports understands that Kerry has a coaching accreditation in Australia.\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He competed at the Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 Olympics, before retiring as injuries took their tool.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A\ufeffn Australian figure skater who appeared at three Olympic Games has been banned for life from competing in the US after an investigation found he <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393999\" title=\"Aussie Olympian blacklisted for life after sexual misconduct\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394002,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393999\/revisions\/394002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}