Beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was charged and convicted of the rape of a 12-year-old, will be competing in the Paris Olympics with the backing of the Dutch Volleyball Federation and Dutch Olympic organizers. In 2016, van de Velde, now 29, was convicted of rape after having sex with an underage girl in England, the Dutch Volleyball Federation said in a statement posted to its website and shared to social media June 26.
.com reached out to the Dutch Volleyball Federation for further comment from the organization and van de Velde but did not hear back by the time of publication. Steven van de Velde’s conviction Van de Velde gave an interview about his conviction to NOS, a Dutch public broadcasting organization, in 2018. “I did what I did. I cannot reverse it, so I will have to bear the consequences,” he said. “It has been the biggest mistake of my life.
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