CANADA
CBC News
By Jason Proctor, CBC News Posted: Jun 23, 2015
The former head coach of Canada’s national men’s basketball team says he was the subject of a “sickening” and erroneous report by Laura Robinson, the same journalist who wrote an article accusing former Olympics CEO John Furlong of abuse.
Ken Shields testified in Furlong’s defence Tuesday at a B.C. Supreme Court trial where Robinson accuses Furlong of defaming her.
Shields said Robinson wrote a piece in the Globe and Mail in 1994 implying he was a racist because of a lack of black players on the national team.
“I was absolutely devastated that anyone would say I had a racial bias over anything in my life,” he testified.
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