Australia’s Olympic hockey player Thomas Craig was arrested in Paris and is being held in custody for buying cocaine, a police union source said on Wednesday (August 7).
The Australian Olympic Committee had earlier said that a member of the men’s hockey team had been arrested without naming the player. The Paris prosecutor’s office also did not confirm the player’s name but said an Australian athlete had been detained for buying cocaine.
Craig, a silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, has played more than 100 games for the national side.
Australia’s men’s team, known as the Kookaburras, were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Paris tournament with a 2-0 loss to the Netherlands on Sunday (August 4).
“Police officers who witnessed a cocaine transaction at the foot of a building in the ninth arrondissement (of Paris), on the night of August 6 to 7, arrested the seller and the buyer, ” the prosecutor’s office said.
Australia’s Olympic Committee (AOC) said no charges had been laid. It did not comment on the reason for the arrest.
