Olympics-Australia would not pick convicted rapist - team chief


FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Press visit at the Olympic and Paralympic athletes Village - Saint-Denis, France - July 16, 2024 Accommodation of team Australia is pictured in the Olympic village REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player convicted of that offence.

Steven van de Velde, named last month in the Dutch Olympic team for Paris, was sentenced to four years in prison in Britain in 2016 following the rape of a 12-year-old girl two years earlier when he was 19.

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