A children’s gymnastics coach and former Olympian is fighting to get his job back and clear his name after he was sacked earlier this year over a single word he used to describe his team.
Lindsay Nylund was fired from his role as a high-performance coach at the City of Canada Bay Council’s Five Dock Leisure Centre, in Sydney, in May, after he sent an email to parents with a picture of his winning team, describing them as “beautiful”.
“For a children’s gymnastic coach, it’s probably the kiss of death for your professional reputation and character,” he told Ben Fordham. “[It’s] traumatic because there’s probably no worse thing that you could accuse someone of, if you’re a children’s gymnastic coach.” Mr Nylund said it “appears” someone wanted to ‘do him in’, claiming no one raised any alarms about the language used in the email until he received the letter.“Parents were outraged [over his termination], the coaching staff were outraged, everyone was outraged … Most people are flabbergasted, they can’t believe it. They think this is ridiculous.”
the council listed three other allegations in their termination notice, including that Mr Nylund “showed a lack of respect to management” by allowing a one-week membership fee freeze when it should have been two weeks.
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