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Former Irish Olympic swimming coach and child abuser George Gibney to be sentenced
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Gibney, 77, will face justice for abusing athletes in the 1970s and 80s after decades of effort to track and extradite him More than half a century after he started sexually abusing children, and enjoyed prestige as Ireland’s Olympic swimming coach before fleeing to the United States, George Gibney
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Former Irish Olympic swimming coach and child abuser George Gibney to be sentenced
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