Arbitrator Extends Protections to Coach in U.S. Swimming case

An arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association has extended the protections of the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to coaches, a first according to an attorney who represented the plaintiff-coach in the case.   “This is the first time, of which I am aware, where a ‘coach, trainer, manager, administrator or other official’ has invoked the protections extended to them, as with athletes, under Section 220522(a)(8) of the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act,”