Canadian Olympic figure skater Nikolaj Sørensen is under investigation by Canada’s Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner over an alleged sexual assault of an American figure skating coach and former skater that occurred in 2012, a🧜ccording to a new report.
, the 🃏woman alleged that when she was 22 and Sørensen was 23, he pinned her down in a ꧙bed inside a condominium near Hartford, Connecticut, and sexually assaulted her.
The woman, who was not idenꦜtified, did not go to the police at the time of the alleged assault.
“He pinned me down with his left arm over my collarbone,” she said in the report, according to USA Today🥂. “He pushed down hard on my collarbone, making me gasp for air the moment he inserted his penis int꧅o my vagina and covered his right hand over my mouth.”
“All sou🤡nd at that point became virtually inaudible and it felt like I would suffocate under the pressure of his arm on my collarbone and chest,” she continued in the report. “I pushed my arms against his hips to try to get his penis out of me and I was struggling to breathe. At this point, I feared for my life and let my body go limp as I lay there and he raped me.”
The woman also said she didn’t report the attack at the time to law enforcement or sports officials over fear that she wou꧙ld be blamed🌱 or not believed.
After seeking ps෴ychological treatment, she did think about filing a police report in Connecticut but found out the statute of limitations had passed.
It was on July 22, 2023, that she finally reached out to sports officials about what had happened after she read an interview in which 🎉Sørensen, 34, was quoted about the need to keep women safe in sports.
“I couldn’t believe the words coming out of the rapist’s mouth,” the report said the woman stated. “It hit me at that moment that mothers would likely be sending their daughters to train with him [as a coach] at some point after he retired from competitive skating, and I could not live with the guilt of knowing I never told any authority figures.”
Skate Canada, Canada’s governing body for the sport, wou꧅ld not comment following the USA Today report.
“We are awa🦄re of the USA Today article that has just come out, but because this is an active case within OSIC, we cannot comment and our athletes w𒀰ill not be commenting as well,” Skate Canada director of communications Karine Bedard said to the outlet.
OSIC told the Associated Press t🎃hat it “does not comment on ongoing matter🏅s.”
Sørensen, who previously competed for Denmark until 2018 and received Canadian ci🏅tizenship in 2021, is set to compete in the Canadian championship in Calgary from Jan. 8-14 with his ice dancing partner, Laurence Fournier Beaudry.
The duo is the defending national champion.
They’re also scheduled to compete in the world championships in Mon✃treal in March.
Sørensen, 34, finished ninth 🌞in the 2022 Beijing Wint✱er Olympics and fifth at last year’s world championships.
He wo𒀰n silver at the 2023 Four Continents Champions♓hips.
