Tarnished Medals: True Crime in Sport
Behind every medal, a shadow lurks.
Five hundred convicted child sex predators. Close to fifty sports. Every one of them convicted in a British court. And that's just those who were caught.
Tarnished Medals is a true crime podcast that does what British sport has been so reluctant to do — names the predators, exposes the systems and institutions that protected them, follows the money that funded them, and reveals what justice for child sport survivors has so often really looked like in Britain since the 1970s to today for those who tried to speak out — and how the halo of sport has repeatedly protected the predators over and above the rights of the child in the sector, which to this day still has no statutory regulation or independent ombudsman.
Written and presented by Emma Webb — author of the internationally bestselling Historic: The True Legacy of Childhood Sport — and one of the youngest known survivors
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