Olympics: Australian swimmer pulls out, citing ‘perverts’
20 June 2021 |
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Maddie Groves, who won two silvers at the Rio Games in 2016, has withdrawn from Australia's Olympic trials set to start Saturday. She says it should be "a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport."
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