CBC Sports: ‘Broken by the system’

A gymnast says he was abused in his sport and then broken by a Canadian system that failed to address that abuse.

Ryan Sheehan spoke Monday in Ottawa to a parliamentary committee on safe sport.

The 29-year-old from Edmonton joined several athletes who have testified in front of both the Heritage and Status of Women committees in recent months about abuse in Canadian sport.

"There were many nights where I felt broken beyond repair. I was not broken by sport. I was abused in sport and broken by the system," Sheehan told the Heritage committee.