The Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner announced on Wednesday that Canadian figure skater Nikolaj Sorensen has been suspended for at least six years due to “sexual maltreatment.”
Canadian figure skater Nikolaj Sorensen was placed on a minimum six-year suspension by the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner on Wednesday due to “sexual maltreatment.”
The ban is a result of an OSIC investigation into an allegation that Sorensen sexually assaulted an American figure skating coach and former skater in Hartford, Conn., in 2012.
Sorensen has denied the allegation, and it has never been established in court.
Sorensen has denied the allegation, and it has never been established in court.
The accusation has never been proven in court, and Sorensen has refuted it.
They had pulled out of the national championship in Calgary two months prior after a January USA Today article revealed that Soerensen had been accused of sexual assault by a former skater and figure skating coach in Hartford, Conn. It was Soerensen’s 23rd birthday.
At the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai later that month, Soerensen and Fournier Beaudry won a silver medal.
