Mary-Sophie Harvey, a Canadian swimmer, claims she was drugged on the final night of the World Championships in Budapest last month.
Herbey, 22, claims she had a “four-to-six-hour window” where she couldn’t remember anything and awoke with a sprained rib and concussion.
“Dozens of bruises” were later discovered on the Tokyo Olympian’s body.
Harvey says she’s “never felt more ashamed” about the incident, but she’s determined not to let it define her.
“I ended up going to the hospital, where I was met with doctors and psychologists. They tested and treated me the best way they could,” Harvey wrote on Instagram.
“They told me it happens more often [than] we think and that I was lucky in a way, to get out of this with a rib sprain and a small concussion.
“It did help me cure some of the fears I had but sadly not all of them.”
Harvey, who won a bronze medal with the Canadian 4x200m relay team in Budapest, claims that there is a “dangerously increasing number” of cases of drink spiking and included news clippings from similar incidents in her Instagram post.
The swimmer believes the issue is “still not being talked about enough” and urged people to take precautions when on nights out.
“To anyone reading this, please be careful,” she wrote.
“I thought I was safe, that it would never happen to me, especially while being surrounded by friends. But it did… and I wish someone and educated me on the matter prior to that night.”
Fina, Swimming’s world governing body, had yet to comment as of the time of filing this report.
