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U.S. Figure Skating requests that SafeSport complete John Coughlin sexual misconduct probe

U.S. Figure Skating has once again requested that the U.S. Center for SafeSport complete its investigation of three reports of sexual misconduct against the late U.S. pairs champion John Coughlin.

In a letter sent Tuesday to SafeSport and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Olympic sexual abuse scandals, USFS wrote that "the lack of a completed investigation has produced great uncertainty ... innuendo and continued speculation" concerning the allegations against Coughlin, 33, who took his own life Jan. 18, one day after he received an interim suspension from SafeSport.

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