Bangladesh's Japanese swimming coach quits over culture of child abuse

After their turmoil on the cricket field, Bangladesh has seen their national swimming head coach from Japan, quit the job after alleging that junior swimmers were forced to do punishment exercises in the blazing sun for using their phones too much. Takeo Inoke, who was hired in August ahead of the South Asian Games in December, announced his resignation on Facebook on Monday.

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Bangladesh Swimming: Takeo Inoke facebook post 

In his post, Inoke said he had "zero tolerance" for physical punishment. He added that a group of juniors were given "meaningless physical exercise" in temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday for breaching rules limiting their mobile phone usage.

Forced to wear long sleeves and tracksuit bottoms in the hot sun, the children had to run, do somersaults and frog jumps on a hard tiled floor. One of them then collapsed to the ground.

The girl was left lying on the floor for about 10 minutes and when Inoki raised his concerns, the other coaches were laughing and saying that she was acting and we should leave her there. Eventually, she was brought to a shaded area but Inoki said he was told there was no ice and no phone to call an ambulance. Finally, she was taken away "to somewhere" by a van.

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Inoki said he would notify FINA, the world swimming federation and that he hoped this sad incident would become (a) critical turning point into building a new competitive swimming organization and structure in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh Swimming Federation chief speaks on child abuse 

Bangladesh Swimming Federation chief M.B. Saif said they were surprised at the resignation. He also said that the swimmers are allowed to keep a phone with them only one day a week. They broke the rule and were punished. Usually, these punishments are not very harsh, he said, adding a probe has been ordered.

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