Sobre a violência sexual no esporte olímpico envolvendo mulheres: um estudo a partir de reportagens em diferentes sites esportivos

The purpose of this research was to map the cases of sexual violence in olympic sports, publicized in different sports sites (FolhaEsporte, ESPN, GazetaEsportiva e El Pais, GloboEsporte, Lance!,SporTV e Terra), between the years of 2013 and 2018. To accomplish that, a quest for the expressions “sexual violence” and “sexual abuse” was made within the sites, such as the words “Olympic” and “olympism” were also verified. The results show 97 reports in total, mostly in the year of 2018 (56.72% of the total). The number of new reports grows expressively in 2016, that had 11 cases, whereas 2015 had only 3. The numbers kept growing in the following years (2017 showed 26 cases and in 2018, 55 cases were found).  Another thing we should draw attention to, is the number of reports in which the victim sex wasn't identified (44 cases or 45.36% of the reports). Of the 71.13% mapped reports involved Olympic gymnastics, 16.49% were about swimming and 4.12% were related to basketball. A possible explanation for the increasing of report news, could be the Rio’s Olympics of 2016 which gave visibility to several sporting issues, such as denouncing cases of sexual violence in different modalities. This article expects to contribute with the visibility of the subject within the scope of sports, making space for new articles to explore this theme.