“Historic”: The True Legacy of Childhood Sport - The Book Every Parent Needs to Read

'You Can't Half Bury Something' THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BRITISH GYMNASTICS DIDN'T WANT TOLD They say what happened to us was "historic." They are wrong. In 1966, the British justice system chose Commonwealth Games gold potential over children's lives when Olympic diver Brian Phelps walked free from court despite a known child sex crime. He and his Olympian wife, Monica, fled hundreds of miles from Sunderland to the English South coast. Fast forward ten years, and that magistrate's decision unleashed a prolific predator on thousands of children at their OLGA gymnastics and trampolining club in Dorset. One of the youngest of them was 5-year-old Emma Webb. HISTORIC is Emma's unflinching investigation into Britain's decades-old paedophilia epidemic and the celebrity culture that weaponised medals, smiles, and status to silence victims. This isn't just a memoir; it's an unflinching forensic analysis written with razor-sharp intelligence from someone with professional expertise across healthcare, athletics, entrepreneurship, and journalism who has alchemised horrifying trauma into truth. When the British system fails its 11 million child sex abuse victims, survivors create social justice of their own. When institutions refuse accountability even after the 2022 Whyte Review, survivors force it. Emma's story proves that with incredible therapeutic support and phenomenal community, the phoenix rises—not just to survive, but to do everything in her power to ensure her eight year nightmare that has altered her entire life never becomes another child's reality in unregulated childhood sport. This memoir unravels and exposes the devastating complex trauma that is child sex abuse while proving that with the right support, hope, and a future, despite it can and does exist. What happens when Olympians turn bad? A reckoning British sport can no longer avoid. The sisterhood they couldn't silence. The critically acclaimed memoir that's shocking readers worldwide. The one story British Gymnastics did not ever want told—and the reason behind why the survivors did. View Less