Crowd Cheers as Convicted Rapist is Eliminated in Olympic Beach Volleyball

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As a Dutch guy I feel compelled to apologize for our national olypic committee selecting and sending this douche nozzle to Paris.

He’s still going to be representing the team in the next competition. You guys need to make sure your government knows it’s not ok to send child groomer rapists onto the world stage to represent you. And his teammates seem to be ok with playing aside him again.

“If I can speak for him, after the match we lost, we were disappointed,” Immers said of his teammate Van de Velde. “But we said to each other: ‘Look what we did together. Look how hard we fought with all the attention.’ We stayed together. We cried together off the field and said, ‘OK, let’s just enjoy this moment.’ And we did that. So I’m happy we did it that way.”

Van de Velde and Immers will play together next in the European championships in the Netherlands right after the Olympics, and then the Dutch championships.

Sorry, but this is kind of fucked up. No offense to you personally, but my opinion of the Dutch just took a nosedive.

You dislike the Dutch now because their system of imprisonment is based on rehabilitation?

This has nothing to do with the system.

His victim tried to self harm, and now she gets to see him living his best life at the olympics.

Where is the justice to his victim who gets to live a life of mental hell while he gets to be on TV?

There are plenty of things he could be doing with his life other than the olympics and torturing his victim all over again.

To be fair, seeing all the media coverage of him probably doesn’t help the girl he raped, either. It would be better for all involved parties that he just quietly retired from public life.