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Canberra<\/strong>: Australian field hockey player Tom Craig has received a 12-month suspension from the sport\u2019s governing body in Australia for attempting to buy cocaine during the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n Craig was detained but not charged following his attempt to acquire the substance in Paris on August 7, after completing his Olympic events.<\/p>\n He appeared before the Australian media in Paris once the French prosecutors confirmed that the 29-year-old Olympian, who won a silver medal in Tokyo three years prior, had been issued a criminal warning and released after a night in detention.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter investigating the incident involving national men\u2019s hockey team member Tom Craig at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Hockey Australia\u2019s Integrity Unit has decided on a 12-month suspension,\u201d stated Hockey Australia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cHalf of this suspension will be actively enforced, with the other half being conditionally suspended, provided that specific conduct and behaviour standards are met.\u201d<\/p>\n Hockey Australia also mentioned that Craig would still be considered for the national men\u2019s team selection for 2025, which is set to be announced later this year. The Australian men\u2019s team finished sixth at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Canberra: Australian field hockey player Tom Craig has received a 12-month suspension from the sport\u2019s governing body in Australia for attempting to buy cocaine during the Paris Olympics. Craig was detained but not charged following his attempt to acquire the substance in Paris on August 7, after completing his Olympic events. He appeared before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/images-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44432,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions\/44432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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