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In this file photo taken on August 19, 2004 Bekatorou waves as she crosses the finish line at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Photo: AFP One of Greece's most successful Olympians and a two-time Games medallist, Sofia Bekatorou, reaped praise this weekend for coming forward with a taboo-breaking sex assault revelation. Bekatorou, a sailing gold medallist, revealed she had suffered sexual assault at the hands of a Greek sailing federation executive shortly after trials for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he "stood by" th...

One by one fellow athletes have come forward with similar claims of abuse. Away from the world of sport, women have also emerged to report purported acts of sexual assault. In Thessaloniki, more than 100 female students once enrolled in the northern metropolis’s main university reported being abused by a departmental professor at the institution, according to state-run TV. Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou welcomes Sofia Bekatorou at the presidential palace in Athens. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/AP Politicians across the spectrum have acknowledged the significance of the moment....

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Olympic champion's abuse claim triggers debate in Greece by Derek Gatopoulos And Costas Kantouris, The Associated Press Posted Jan 20, 2021 11:22 am EDT Last Updated Jan 20, 2021 at 11:28 am EDT ATHENS, Greece — Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou appeared before a public prosecutor in Greece on Wednesday in relation to sexual assault accusations that have ignited a nationwide debate on misconduct and encouraged multiple victims to make their claims public. Bekatorou, who won gold at the 2004 Athens Games, has said a senior sailing federation official assaulted her in 1998. She made th...

An Olympian credited with launching a belated #MeToo awakening in Greece testified Wednesday on her sex abuse case that has encouraged other women to break decades of silence. Womens' groups have long observed that sex abuse in Greece is not only linked to a problematic mentality among men, but that the authorities usually turn a blind eye even when victims speak out.