Montreal swimmer says she was drugged at world championships
Montreal swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey says she was drugged on the ultimate day of the world aquatics championships and suffered a rib sprain and a concussion.
Harvey mentioned in an Instagram publish that there’s a four-to-six hour window the place she has no recollection of what occurred, and that she remembers waking up with the Canadian workforce supervisor and physician by her bedside.
She additionally posted pictures of bruises on her physique.
Montreal’s Harvey competed within the girls’s 200-metre particular person medley on the world championships in Budapest, Hungary, ending eighth.
She additionally earned a bronze medal within the girls 4×200-metre freestyle relay after swimming within the preliminaries.
Harvey mentioned she debated on whether or not to write down her publish, however mentioned “these conditions sadly occur too many instances for me to remain silent.”
“I am nonetheless scared to consider the unknowns of that evening,” she wrote. “I am nonetheless in a manner, ashamed of what occurred, and I feel I at all times shall be… However I will not let this occasion outline me.”
Harvey, 22, competed for Canada in final yr’s Tokyo Olympics. She’s scheduled to swim on this summer time’s Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, England.
Swimming Canada didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
– This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 6, 2022.
