Dutch Beach Volleyball Player Who Was Convicted of Rape Will Make His Olympic Debut Sunday

Euronews ^ | 28/07/2024

[nickcarraway]

Van de Velde’s presence in Paris has drawn negative attention to 2024's beach volleyball games. Advocates for rape victims and some Olympics officials have said he should have been left at home.

Steven Van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player who was convicted in 2016 of having sex with a 12-year-old girl in England, will make his Olympic debut Sunday when he and teammate Matthew Immers meet Italy on the sand at the Eiffel Tower Stadium.

“If an athlete or a staff member had that conviction, they wouldn’t be allowed to be a member of our team,” the head of Australia’s delegation, Anna Meares, said this week.

“We do have a number of athletes under 18 and under 16 and so those policies are well in action for safeguarding of our team.”

[CatOwner]

The planet is destroying the lives of women everywhere. Sadly, a good portion of this can be directed back to the voting patterns of women themselves.

[tflabo]

Scrooge the godless Olympics.

[No name given]

Obviously.

[metmom]

The planet is destroying the lives of women everywhere. Sadly, a good portion of this can be directed back to the voting patterns of women themselves.

And we all know how perfect life was before women could vote.

Because no man would ever beat or rape a woman until women got the vote, Right?

Interesting to see how that topic eats at you all the time.

[No name given]

That was disgraceful the way they mocked Christians. They would never dare mock mooselimbs the same way for obvious reasons.

[Chode]

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[laplata]

They mocked Jesus and, in turn, Christians.

[Mark17]

They mocked Jesus and, in turn, Christians.

Maybe they have been given over to a reprobate mind.

[alexander_busek]

In August 2014 van de Velde, then 19 years old, raped a 12-year-old girl he had met on Facebook who lived in Milton Keynes, England. He travelled to her home and, when her mother was out, gave her alcohol and then raped* her several times at her home as well as near Furzton Lake which was nearby [...]

-Wikipedia

*Since the 12-year-old is legally incapable of providing consent, even if no violence was involved, it is still legally regarded as rape.

Regards,

[mikelets456]

Romans 1

[bgill]

And here it goes again.

[bgill]

This Olympic is nothing but sick perverted “negative attention”.

[cyclotic]

Notice how the media just called him a rapist and not a child molester?

[wildcard_redneck]

America is full of white Karens that hate their husbands and even their own white sons. They are disgusting, demented hateful harpies.

[Mark17]

Romans 1

Yes, they worship the creature, rather than the creator.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Must be a Roman Polanski fan.

[laplata]

There’s no doubt about that.

[Steven Scharf]

beach volleyball should not be an olympic sport. It only exist so that men and women can be shown bouncing around in skimpy speedos.