An Olympic swimmer was banned from additional participation on this 12 months’s Paris Olympics on Sunday.
The swimmer, 22-year-old Ana Carolina Vieira, was caught leaving the athletes’ village with out first asking the workforce for permission, Reuters reported.
Vieira represented Brazil within the 4×100 meters freestyle relay race. The workforce completed in twelfth place within the heats.
To make issues even worse, workforce officers and members have been fully unaware Vieira had left the village when she did.
At the least, that was the case till they noticed social media posts of Vieira having fun with her time away.
A second swimmer, Vieira’s Olympic teammate Gabriel Santos of the lads’s workforce, joined her on the unsanctioned escapade. Santos, nonetheless, solely obtained a warning.
In keeping with Reuters, Vieira’s harsher punishment got here as a result of she additionally selected to problem the workforce’s formation.
“The athlete Ana Carolina, in a disrespectful and aggressive method, contested a technical choice made by the Brazilian Nationwide Swimming Staff committee,” the Brazilian Olympic Committee mentioned in a Sunday assertion.
“Consequently, Gabriel Santos was given a warning, and Ana Carolina Vieira was dismissed from the delegation. She is going to return to Brazil instantly.”
The Brazilian swim workforce chief made it clear that the workforce wouldn’t be placing up with any such insubordination.
“We’re not right here taking part in or taking a trip,” mentioned Gustavo Otsuka, the workforce chief. “We’re right here working for Brazil, for the 200 million taxpayers who’re working for us.”
“We will’t mess around right here. She took a very inappropriate place to make her level, her dismay, in regards to the formation of the relay.
“It was throughout this era that we determined to take this example to the disciplinary committee, mentioned it and took the suitable motion. We ended up discovering out by the posts.”
In keeping with the U.Okay.’s Daily Mail, following her dismissal from the workforce, Vieira was despatched on a flight again residence to Brazil.
Santos and Vieira are reportedly a pair who each take part within the Esporte Clube Pinheiros, a Brazilian athletics membership.
Vieira made her Olympic debut in 2021 on the Tokyo Olympics, that means this might have been her second look.
Santos, alternatively, first appeared within the 2016 Olympics, which have been held in his residence nation of Brazil. This 12 months is his third Olympic look.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.