{"id":20289,"date":"2019-06-20T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/06\/20\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:03:00","slug":"congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Demands Greater Oversight Over U.S. Olympic Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/20\/734303177\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Alexander Starr<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/20\/734303177\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Olympic Committee is dealing with renewed calls to revamp itself after sexual abuse scandals and that it hasn&#8217;t done enough to protect young athletes. Congress is increasing pressure as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/20\/734303177\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Congress Demands Greater Oversight Over U.S. Olympic Committee\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/20\/734303177\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/06\/20\/734303177\/congress-demands-greater-oversight-over-u-s-olympic-committee?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Olympic Committee is dealing with renewed calls to revamp itself after sexual abuse scandals and that it hasn&#8217;t done enough to protect young athletes. Congress is increasing pressure as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}