Australia hockey participant Tom Craig has apologised after being launched from custody in Paris following his arrest for allegedly shopping for cocaine.
The Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated a person was arrested on Tuesday night time for purchasing cocaine within the ninth arrondissement.
Craig was launched with a warning and didn’t obtain a convinction or a superb.
“I might firstly prefer to apologise for what has occurred within the final 24 hours. I made a horrible mistake. I take full accountability for my actions,” Craig stated as he left police places of work.
“My actions are my very own and under no circumstances replicate the values of my household, my team-mates, my buddies, my sport, and the Australian Olympic crew. I’ve embarrassed you all. I am actually sorry.”
Craig, 28, gained silver on the Tokyo 2020 Video games and has made greater than 100 appearances for Australia.
Australia’s chef de mission Anna Meares stated she was “glad” Craig had been launched however “can not condone” what he had completed.
She added: “He is an efficient one that made a nasty choice. However there are penalties for choices like this.
“He has apologised, proven regret, he has owned as much as his mistake, and we are going to assist him if he wants assist.”
Meares stated Craig had already moved out of the Olympic Village and can lose his remaining privileges on the Video games.
Earlier than his launch, the prosecutor’s workplace stated: “Cops who witnessed a cocaine transaction on the foot of a constructing within the ninth arrondissement (of Paris), on the night time of August sixth to seventh, apprehended the vendor, born in December 2006, and the client, born in September 1995 in Australia and who is claimed to be a member of the Australian subject hockey crew.
“Given the portions of medicine seized from the vendor, the investigation has been entrusted to the anti-narcotics police.”
Australia’s males’s and girls’s hockey groups have been each knocked out on the quarter-final stage at Paris 2024.
