FILE PHOTO: Rio Olympics - Swimming - Victory Ceremony - Women's 200m Butterfly Victory Ceremony - Olympic Aquatics Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10/08/2016. Madeline Groves (AUS) of Australia poses with her silver medal. REUTERS/David Gray
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Swimming Australia (SA) urged Madeline Groves to engage with them about her complaint of "misogynistic perverts" as the double Olympic silver medallist continued her criticism of the sport's culture on Friday.
Groves pulled out from national swimming trials for the Tokyo Games and railed against "perverts ... and their boot lickers" who exploit, body-shame and "medically gaslight" young women and girls in an explosive social media post on Thursday.
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