Maddie Groves has made a name for herself as a two-time Olympic silver medalist. She has been working very hard over the last few years to gear up for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, which were pushed back a year due to the global pandemic. However, Groves has come under added pressure recently during the Australian trials ahead of the summer games and has since decided to drop out of the Olympics because she has been inundated with “misogynistic perverts” in the swimming field.

Maddie did not mention names when announcing that she would be dropping out of the Olympic trials because of “perverts.” However, she does not need to make such an announcement. Instead, she has made it very clear in the past that she has been harassed while swimming competitively. Maddie decided that she would rather live a life of peace than one filled with harassment from a “misogynistic pervert” who continued to bother her at the pool.

Unfortunately, Maddie’s decision means that she will not be competing in Tokyo this summer. Although she’s a world-class swimmer, earning silver twice in the Olympics, she will not be throwing herself into the water to compete in the 200-meter butterfly or the 4×100 medley – both events she placed in during the summer games in Rio in 2016.

Now, Maddie says “time’s up” for the perverts and that she is done swimming so long as they continue to be allowed to harass her while she is trying to compete.