Paraguayan Olympic swimmer Luana Alonso shot again at her nation’s claims she was kicked out of the Olympic Village final 12 months for creating an inappropriate setting, slamming it as a lie and “false rumors.”
Alonso, 21, competed for her native Paraguay within the ladies’s 100m Butterfly on the 2024 Summer season Video games, however failed to achieve the semifinals.
Throughout her time in France, Alonso was accused of making an “inappropriate atmosphere,” forcing the Paraguayan Olympic Committee to take away her from the opposite athletes.
She had waited 11 months to handle the scenario.
“Let me make this clear: I left the Olympic Village on my own,” Alonso wrote on her Instagram Tales on Wednesday.
The 2-time Olympian reportedly grew to become problematic after she didn’t make it out of the warmth races and took a day journey to Disneyland Paris as an alternative of supporting her compatriots, angering the nation’s Olympic officers.
She documented her journey to the theme park on social media, posing for an image carrying Mickey Mouse ears and holding a champagne flute.
“Her presence is creating an inappropriate atmosphere within Team Paraguay,” Larissa Schaerer, the pinnacle of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee, stated in a press release printed by The Solar on the time.
Alonso fired again, saying the accusations weren’t true.
“The Paraguayan Olympic team claimed I created an ‘inappropriate environment simply because I decided I didn’t want to swim anymore,” she stated. “They tried to take my accreditation away, but that’s not something they had the right to do. I chose not to hand it over and apparently that was ‘inappropriate’ to them.”
Her costume type, which featured “skinny clothing” and socializing with athletes, was additionally famous as a distraction throughout her keep on the Olympic Village in Seine-Saint-Denis.
She made headlines earlier than the beginning of the Paris Video games when she debuted a brand new tattoo on her hips of the 5 Olympic rings.
After she was faraway from the Olympic Village, Alonso reportedly checked right into a Parisian lodge and visited high-end shops and eating places.
The Southern Methodist College alum claimed Paraguayan swimming officers had pleaded for her to return to the pool for the Pan American Junior Video games being held within the nation’s capital, Asunción, in August.
“If I had been treated with basic respect, maybe I wouldn’t have stepped away,” she added.
Alonso says she all the time had “given everything” for her nation however when she stood up for herself it was seen as an issue.
The 2-time Olympian threatened to sue information shops who ran tales in regards to the accusations introduced in opposition to her by the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
“I’m seriously considering legal action against the magazines and media outlets spreading false rumors like that I was expelled from the Olympic Village. Really? Who came up with that nonsense? Well that it’s not true,” she wrote.
Alonso additionally teased that she could be releasing a video to raised clarify her pondering.
“Seriously this (sic) lies are wild and affecting my life and that’s why I decided I’m keeping my life lowkey,” she stated.
Alonso retired from aggressive swimming shortly after the Olympics concluded, however made a sudden about-face weeks later when she returned to coaching.
In Might, she teased her return to the pool in a cryptic message, not ruling out competitors or the Olympics.
“Next year I’m coming back,” she wrote to a fan’s query. “But I don’t know if I will be back to competitive swimming.”
