Canadian swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey said in a videoconference this Friday (8) that she was not the only athlete who was drugged during the World Swimming Championships, held at the end of last month in Budapest , in Hungary. Yesterday (7) she revealed she couldn’t remember what happened for most of the closing night of the tournament when she was with other swimmers🇧🇷 The indications are that she was drugged by a third party.

“When I came back here [para o Canadá], and for the next week, I was embarrassed and felt that the judgment of others was very present. I was told that I had drunk too much, that I had to be careful with my alcohol consumption. Some even told me that I might be looking for it. All victims of this type of incident have heard this before, and I think this is one of the main reasons why people are afraid to report these situations,” he said at the conference. hurry.

Most of the delegations that participated in the World Cup stayed in the same hotel in Budapest, where they exchanged. After the tournament was over, on the penultimate Sunday, they threw a party. Mary-Sophie said she had “maybe four drinks” in the night, which did not justify the consequences: she does not remember what happened over a period of four to six hours.

“People who were there with me told me about the night. And by putting all the little pieces of the story together, I managed to get an idea of ​​what happened. I didn’t feel part of it. involved in this story, because I had no memory of it”, he explained. The swimmer, bronze with the 4x200m freestyle relay, was not the subject of any theft of personal effects, with the exception of a disposable camera, which probably contained images of the incident.

The next day he woke up with a sprained rib, a concussion and several bruises all over his body. While Canada is going to participate in the British Commonwealth Games, she resumed training as soon as she returned home and, during a training session, she burst into tears. A colleague recommended that she seek help, and that’s when she filed a complaint, which is currently being investigated by the International Swimming Federation (Fina).

During the press conference, the swimmer from Canada said that other athletes were also drugged that night, without specifying the number of people or giving names. Yesterday, a journalist from the specialized site Swim Swam posted on Twitter that he was looking for people who had also been drugged.