The Australian Human Rights Commission has published its Report on the Independent Review into Gymnastics in Australia (2021). The findings of the Report are extremely concerning and distressing. Any form of abuse in any sport training program is unacceptable and is not tolerated by the Victorian Institute of Sport.
Victorian Institute of Sport athlete and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Melissa Milly Tapper, headed to Kyneton to visit local schools and inspire the next generation of emerging regional Victorian athletes last week.
Victorian Institute of Sport athletes from eight different sports will help increase awareness around suicide prevention as part of the Australian Institute of Sport and Lifeline Australia’s impactful community engagement program, Lifeline Community Custodians. The athletes will encourage anyone who needs support to reach out and ask for help.
Before Kieran Ault-Connell and Russell Short went to Paralympic Games in Athens 2004, a Grade 6 student from Moorabbin Primary School wrote a letter to the Victorian Institute of Sport.