"I just remember thinking it would be kind of silly if I stood out there with a black mask," he told the outlet, "and I asked them if they had an extra [pink] one, and they go, 'Oh, no.'"
Hazdic told the outlet that after the team lost its match to Japan, someone sent him a photo showing him wearing the black mask and standing alongside his three teammates wearing pink masks, and he then "realized what was going on." Hadzic said he managed to track down Hoyle, telling him he "was frankly embarrassed to be his teammate" and Ramirez, telling him, "it wasn't cool.
His teammates, Hazdic told the newspaper, "never asked me for my side of the story" and "never asked for evidence or how I felt." In June, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a nonprofit that aims to protect athletes from sexual, emotional and physical abuse, temporarily suspended Hadzic from fencing after three women told investigators he committed sexual misconduct against them between 2013 and 2015. He appealed the decision and an arbitrator overturned the suspension, declaring it "inappropriate to the allegations.
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