Area hockey participant Tom Craig has been suspended for 12 months by the game’s Australian governing physique for trying to buy cocaine on the Paris Olympics.
Craig was arrested however launched with out cost after making an attempt to buy the drug in Paris on Aug. 7 throughout an evening out after his Olympic marketing campaign ended.
He confronted Australian media in Paris after French prosecutors issued an announcement confirming the now 29-year-old Olympian — a silver medalist at Tokyo three years in the past — was given a felony warning and launched after spending an evening in custody.
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“Following an investigation into the arrest involving nationwide males’s hockey crew athlete Tom Craig on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, Hockey Australia’s Integrity Unit has imposed a 12-month suspension,” the Hockey Australia assertion stated Wednesday.
“Six months of this suspension will probably be served absolutely, with the remaining six months absolutely suspended, contingent upon assembly conduct and behavioral necessities.”
Hockey Australia stated Craig would stay eligible for choice to the 2025 nationwide males’s squad which is predicted to be introduced on the finish of this yr.
The Australian males’s crew positioned sixth in Paris.
