Athlete Rights Australia acknowledges the extraordinary campaign work of Gymnasts for Change, a UK body aligned with ARA’s values in raising public awareness of abuse in sport, adverse institutional responses, and the need for cultural and structural change.
Thanks and acknowledgement to Gymnasts for Change’s CEO Claire Heafford and her team for inviting ARA co-founder Ali Quigley to London for the July 7 community screening of Broken Kids: The Untold Story of Young Athletes by director Pierre Emmanuel Luneau-Daurignac. Pierre discussed his work alongside UK director Johnathan Jones, whose film, Gymnastics: A Culture of Abuse?, was released earlier this year to a UK audience. The directors then gave the floor over to an international panel of gymnastics activists who discussed the degree to which gymnastics practices have changed since the release of Athlete A four years ago. I was fortunate to meet two extraordinary co-panelist ex-gymnasts: Germany’s three-time Olympian, Kim Bui, and Petra Witjes from the Netherlands, as well as Dutch & Swiss pioneer human rights expert Paulo David. Please enjoy these photographs of the event, kindly supplied by Claudia at @claudia_agati
For more about Petra, visit her website.
For more about Kim Bui, her Insta is here.
