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Greek Olympic champion calls for more to come forward on sexual abuse Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou leaves the prosecutor's 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 in Greece over sexual abuse, winning broad political backing and praise from President Katerina Sa...

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.

Tuesday briefing: 'Missing out on being young' Warren Murray Top story: Call to promote BAME vaccinations Hello, Warren Murray marking out the trail to Tuesday’s must-read news. Young people are in danger of giving up on their futures and on themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Prince’s Trust survey has found. More than one in four said they had felt unable to cope with life since the start of the pandemic, increasing to 40% of those not in work, education or training. Half of 16- to 25-year-olds said their mental health had worsened since the start of the pandemic....

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 the Greek edition of Marie Claire that she had suffered the assault in 1998 when she was 21 years of a...

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