Officials making lists of those barred for misconduct

Gymnastics recently had 178 people on its list. Swimming had 163. Another 31 are on the list from taekwondo, 29 from figure skating and 33 more from judo.

The lists reflect the hundreds of people who have been barred, often for sexual misconduct, from the federations running these sports as well as others overseeing the development of Olympic athletes. A few of the names are well known, perhaps none more than Larry Nassar, the former team doctor for USA Gymnastics who was sent to prison after being accused of sexually abusing scores of young female athletes.

Yet, the sheer scope of the lists, and the inconsistencies within them because of differing standards among the organizations, raise plenty of questions — not the least of which is whether an effort to collect and publish the names is even legal. There are also questions about transparency and whether individual sports are divulging all past offenders.

The plan, as the U.S. Olympic Committee vows to throw open the curtains and let in the light, is to get all the names, from all the years and all the Olympic sports, in one place so that people can easily check them before joining a team or hiring a coach or a trainer.

‘‘What we want is an environment where, across the entire Olympic and Paralympic family, the names of individuals who have been banned are readily available,’’ said Rick Adams, the U.S. Olympic Committee executive who oversees the effort to create a central clearinghouse, under what is called the SafeSport initiative.

The Olympic committee created the U.S. Center for SafeSport, which it spun off as a separate entity in March 2017. The idea was to have a single agency empowered to investigate and rule on accusations of misconduct.

SafeSport does not publish a list of all people barred from the sports, but it does provide links to the individual federations’ lists on its site and it maintains a searchable online database for all the cases in which SafeSport has handed down bans or suspensions — sometimes interim, as investigations continue.