Australian hockey participant Tom Craig has been hit with a 12-month ban by Hockey Australia after he was arrested in Paris for purchasing cocaine throughout the Olympic Video games.
Craig owned as much as his wrongdoing in a press convention in Paris after spending an evening within the lock-up after his arrest, which occurred within the days following the Kookaburras’ quarter-final loss on the Video games.
Following an investigation, Hockey Australia’s Integrity Unit imposed the ban on Craig as punishment.
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2024 Paris Olympic Video games. Australian hockey participant Tom Craig has been launched from custody in Paris over an alleged cocaine incident. 7 August 2024. Photograph: Eddie Jim Eddie Jim
Craig was arrested on August 6 in Paris’ Ninth Arrondissement after Australia’s males’s and girls’s gamers hit the city following a “household and mates” gathering.
The 28-year-old was handed a probationary legal warning for drug use and misplaced all of his Olympic privileges together with lodging within the athlete’s village and participation within the closing ceremony.
“On the finish of his police custody, the hockey participant was offered to a delegate of the prosecutor for notification of a probationary legal warning for drug use,” a spokesperson for the Paris Prosecutor’s Workplace informed 9news.com.au on the time.
The prosecutor’s workplace confirmed that the Kookaburra was arrested for purchasing cocaine after police witnessed a cocaine transaction outdoors a constructing within the metropolis’s Ninth Arrondissement.
Australian hockey participant Tom Craig spoke after he was launched from custody in Paris following his arrest. Eddie Jim
Six months of Craig’s ban might be served in full with the rest suspended if he meets conduct and behavior necessities outlined by Hockey Australia.
Beneath his suspension, the ahead — who gained silver with the Kookaburras at Tokyo 2020 — is barred from that includes in any hockey sport, competitors or league, organised by Hockey Australia. This consists of the Hockey One League and FIH Professional League seasons.
Hockey Australia has confirmed that Craig would stay eligible for choice within the 2025 nationwide males’s hockey squad which is about to be introduced on the finish of the yr.
Craig has additionally been instructed to finish necessary coaching and education schemes.
He has entry to the nationwide organisation’s athlete assist providers via his suspension.
Craig was contracted to German membership Hamburger for the upcoming Euro Hockey League season however has since been faraway from the crew’s roster on the membership’s web site.
