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Greek Olympic champion calls for more to come forward on sexual abuse Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou leaves the prosecutors office in Athens ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou told Greek prosecutors on Wednesday about the sexual assault she said she faced from a sailing federation official more than 20 years ago and called on others to come forward. Bekatorou, who won gold in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, has unleashed a long-suppressed debate...

Olympics champion Sofia Bekatorou fulfilled her duty not only to other women but also to society in its entirety by opening a discussion that we ought to have conducted long ago.

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19 January 2021 10:17am Veteran Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou was summoned to testify before prosecutor Sotiria Papageorgakopoulou on Wednesday, after she reported that she had been sexually abused by a Sailing Federation official in 1998. Despite the launch of the prosecutor’s investigation, other possible victims of similar behaviour must now come forward to testify in order for the case to be prosecuted, as the offences Ms Bekatorou described are now statute-barred. Ms Bekatorou told th...

The decision by ex-Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou to describe how she was assaulted shocks Greece.

Tuesday, 19 January 2021 The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has suspended its grant to the Hellenic Sailing Federation over the response to Sofia Bekatorou saying she was sexually abused in 1998 by a high-ranking member of the organisation. Bekatorou, who won gold in the 470 class at her home Olympic Games in Athens, made the allegation during an online conference organised by Greece’s Sports Ministry. The 43-year-old said a male official performed a "lewd act" after inviting her to his h...

BERLIN | WARSAW In a run-off election with arch-conservative Friedrich Merz, North Rhine-Westphalian leader Armin Laschet won the race for CDU chair. Laschet – considered to be the moderate in the race and ran largely on a platform of continuing Merkel’s legacy – now has the best chance of becoming the country’s next chancellor after the Bundestag election set for 26 September.  In the meantime at the EU level, Laschet will have to deal with the headache of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz pa...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeces first female president met Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou on Monday to express her support for the athlete who publicly claimed she had been sexually

Greek President praises Olympic medallist for breaking abuse silence Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou meets with Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou in Athens ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s president praised Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou for dissolving “a conspiracy of silence” by reporting a historic allegation of sexual assault by a sports official. Bekatorou, who won a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, told the Greek edition of Marie Claire last month that she...

Prominent female athlete and multiple Olympic Games medallist in sailing, Sofia Bekatorou, has spoken out about being sexually abused by a sports official during her preparations for the Sydney Olympic Games (2000). Though Bekatorou did not reveal the official’s name at first, press reports said Aristeides Adamopoulos – an official of the Hellenic Sailing Federation and currently a member of the ruling New Democracy party – was the one who molested her. Following the revelations, Adamopo...