Paris 2024 Olympics: Cocaine circulating among some athletes
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French police have arrested an Australian athlete competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the ninth arrondissement of the capital, Paris, who was caught red-handed buying cocaine.
According to French media, the case concerns one of the players of the Australian hockey team, who was arrested along with a minor suspected of being a drug trafficker, after the latter was found in possession of 75 ecstasy pills, seven vials of cocaine and other drugs.
The Australian athlete, who was in possession of a gram of cocaine, and the minor who accompanied him, suspected of being a drug trafficker, were arrested pending the completion of investigations.
It is worth noting that the Australian hockey team was eliminated by the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games, and the Australian hockey team has already won 13 Olympic medals, including a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.