Canadian swimmer Mary-Sophie Harvey said Wednesday via Instagram that she was drugged on the final night of the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in June.
In the post, Harvey says that there is a “four-to-six hour window where I can’t recall a single thing.” In addition to a statement, Harvey shared photographs of bruising that she received while unconscious. Harvey added that there are other bruises she didn’t feel comfortable sharing.
Harvey was competing in her first World Championships meet since 2017. She swam in the 200-meter individual medley and finished in eighth, and she won a bronze medal as part of the women’s 4×200 freestyle relay team. Harvey also competed for Canada at last year’s Olympics.
In her post, the swimmer said she has “never felt more ashamed.”
“It felt like the body I was in, wasn’t mine (it still feels this way),” she wrote. “I got home and found a dozen bruises on my body. Some of my friends told me afterwards that they had to carry me while I was unconscious and it probably explained why.”
Harvey wrote that she wound up going to the hospital where she received testing and treatment. There, it…
