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US Olympic and Paralympic officials fire coach and director after report on sexual abuse

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Gary Colliander was accused of sexually abusing Grace Boutot , a biathlete he coached at the Maine Winter Sports Center over four years beginning in 2006 when she was 15 .

He quit the job after Boutot ’s October 2010 suicide attempt and was later hired by the US Paralympic Nordic team.

The US Center for SafeSport , created to investigate sex-abuse allegations in Olympic sports in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar US Gymnastics scandal, launched an investigation in December .

In a 2011 complaint she filed with the Maine Human Rights Commission , Boutot accused the Maine sports center of failing to prevent Colliander’s sexual misconduct and retaliating against her when she reported it — denying her coaching and ending financing of equipment, travel, athlete housing and other US Biathlon competition-related expenses. The center settled for $ 75,000 in September 2011 and Boutot quit racing..

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formal

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English

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