'Not allowed on our team' - Australian chief wouldn't pick Dutch convicted rapist for Olympics
Anna Meares was clear that convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde would not have been selected to participate for Australia. The 29-year-old served 13 months of a four-year sentence after pleading guilty to raping a 12-year-old British girl when he was 19.
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00:00If an athlete or a staff member had that conviction they wouldn't be allowed to be a member of
00:04our team.
00:06We have very stringent policies around safeguarding within our team and we have full confidences
00:14in those policies and the training that we've put our staff and athletes through to have
00:18awareness.
00:19We do have a number of athletes under 18 and under 16 and so those policies are well in
00:24action for safeguarding of our team.