U.S. Olympic athletes are frustrated at their lack of power in decision-making. One option they're considering is forming a union.
CHICAGO—Meetings of the Athletes’ Advisory Council, an athlete-led group within the U.S. Olympic Committee, are usually routine affairs. But at a gathering of the group here last weekend, in the basement conference room of an airport hotel, the presence of two very different attendees highlighted fault lines in the U.S. Olympic movement.
On one side of the room sat Sarah Hirshland, hired months ago as CEO of the USOC to excavate it from the wreckage of a years-long sexual-abuse scandal in gymnastics.
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