Brock Turner Banned For Life By USA Swimming

Former Stanford University student Brock Turner is no longer eligible to compete in events sanctioned by USA Swimming, USA Today confirmed Monday afternoon. 

The ban, which includes Olympic tryouts, was confirmed by USA Swimming spokesman Scott Leightman in an email to USA Today. The decision was reported four days after Turner was sentenced to six months of county jail and probation for three counts of sexual assault. Turner was convicted in March of attacking an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on Stanford's campus. As a freshman, Turner swam for Stanford's men's swimming team, and had hoped to qualify for the upcoming Olympics -- a point many media outlets harped on about, thoughtlessly putting Turner's once-clean image ahead of the victim's sensitivities.