FILE PHOTO: Swimming - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinal - Optus Aquatic Centre - Gold Coast, Australia - April 5, 2018. Madeline Groves of Australia reacts after winning a heat. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
(Reuters) - Double Olympic silver medallist Madeline Groves said the chance to fix the swimming culture in Australia and make the sport safer for all, including women and girls, was worth skipping the Tokyo Olympics.
Groves withdrew from Australia's swimming trials for the Olympics in June, saying her pull-out should be a lesson to "perverts ... and their boot lickers" who exploit, body-shame and "medically gaslight" young women and girls.
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