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This article was originally published in SportBusiness, and is republished here with permission. On October 30, President Trump signed into law the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes Act, which establishes new safeguards and powers to protect American amateur athletes from abuse. Athlete abuse has been an area of significant congressional attention since the Larry Nassar-USA Gymnastics scandal rocked the amateur sports world in 2017, on the heels of several other high-profile cases in college and youth sports. The Empowering Athletes Act builds on the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017 (SafeSport Act), which established the United States Center for SafeSport as an independent investigative body tasked with combatting abuse in the world of amateur sports. This latest bill signals a more active approach by Congress, in that it articulates new federal authority over the institutional power structures in amateur sports by

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