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    IOC played no part in Dutch decision to pick convicted rapist for Netherlands’s beach volleyball team for 2024 Summer Olympics


    IOC played no part in Dutch decision to pick convicted rapist for Netherlands’s beach volleyball team for 2024 Summer Olympics

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    1. ExpertAverage1911 on

      It’s incredible that everyone involved is passing responsibility instead of taking a stand and speaking out against this injustice.  Maybe they had nothing to do with making the decision, but they have an incredible amount of power to reverse it.  I think I’m just done with the Olympics at this point.

    2. Sufficient_Motor_458 on

      I am continually stunned by how forgiving society is of convicted child rapists

      This man raped a 12 year old child. A child that would eventually go on to overdose and self-harm.

      Yet still there is a woman out there that married him. She studied psychology and trained to become a police officer. She gave him a child. She knowingly had a child with a child rapist. That’s so unforgivable it makes my head spin

      The Olympics are a privilege, not a right. Is this really the best the Netherlands has to offer? *This* is who they want to represent them on a world stage? A fucking rapist of children?? I cannot wrap my mind around it

      And I won’t go into a separate tirade about how fucking disgusted I am that a grown man gets a *ONE YEAR* punishment for the rape of a child. Both the UK and the Netherlands should be ashamed

    3. lala_b11 on

      Idk what the rules are for fan behavior at any Olympic sports event, but I bet the verbal abuse that Steven van de Velde & his beach volleyball partner play at the Paris Olympics is gonna be VILE!!

    5. Big-Tumbleweed2299 on

      You’d think the IOC would have some kind of rule in place to bar child molesters from competing… Seems like a no brainer to me

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