The controversy continues around the expulsion of swimmer Ana Vieira from the Olympic Village. The Brazilian was removed from the facility where athletes sleep at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) itself, after being accused of escaping from the concentration with her partner and also an Olympic swimmer, Gabriel Santos, heading to the Eiffel Tower on the day of the Inauguration.
Although both Vieira and Santos shared the night out, only she was expelled from the Olympic Village for her “disrespectful and aggressive” response, according to the COB. “We are not here to have fun or on vacation. We are here to work for Brazil, for the more than 200 million taxpayers who work for us,” argued the head of the Brazilian delegation, Gustavo Otsuka.
The treatment received by Vieira has generated various comments. The protagonist herself told her version of the events and the denigration she had to go through after leaving the sports confinement in Paris. “I had to leave there and leave my materials, I didn’t know what to do. My things are there in the Olympic Village, I went to the airport in shorts. I had to open my suitcase at the airport,” the swimmer warned.
“I’m helpless, I haven’t had access to anything, I haven’t been able to talk to anyone. They told me to get in touch with the COB channels. But how am I going to get in touch?” said Vieira. But she did not stop there, but rather she said that she was suffering harassment due to the events, that she filed a complaint but that it has not been heard: “I already filed a complaint for harassment and they have not resolved anything, harassment within the team. I have been ignored “I will talk to my lawyers. I promise to tell everything. I am sad, nervous, but calmly because I know who I am, I know what my character and my nature are.”
The events are recent and although the swimmer has already left Paris and gone to Portugal before returning to her country, the development of events is awaited to clarify the complaint that Vieira makes in the midst of the turbulent 2024 Olympic Games.
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Vieira and Santos published a joint statement in which they accepted the error and recounted the events from their perspective: “We made the mistake of not communicating in the appropriate manner as required by the Safe Sports Guide, for which we were warned. “We did not communicate because, despite being outside the Villa, all the logistics of the trip were carried out through the means provided by the organization.”
“We have been living together for more than 3 years, these are our second Olympic Games together, we are from the same club, we have always separated our personal and professional aspects very well, and everyone who knows us and lives with us knows this very well,” he argued. the couple.
