Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player who served time in prison for rape, received a mixture of boos and applause when he was introduced before his opening match on Sunday at the Paris Games.
Van de Velde was greeted with only a handful of boos when he first took the sand for warmups, but the hooting was louder for the more formal pre-match introduction. His teammate Matthew Immers – and all the other players appearing at the Eiffel Tower Stadium so far in the Summer Games – received nothing but cheers.
Forget the IOC, how did anyone in the Netherlands think it was okay for him to represent their nation?
Oh, most people in the Netherlands who know about this think it’s completely absurd and it shouldn’t have happened.
But for some reason the Olympic Committee disagrees.
They apparently forgave him the moment he stepped off the boat back when he got released.
Well the people in charge of the olympic team at least… not the whole country. I only heard about this dude recently and he can fuck right off.
I haven’t heard about any major protests in Amsterdam about them allowing a pedophile rapist on their Olympic team, have you?