<div class="cli cli-embed cli-embed--header-media cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject"><div class="connatix-wrapper" style="width:100%;height:auto;display:block;position:relative"><div class="loading-message"><span class="loading-message__loading">LOADING</span><span class="loading-message__error">ERROR LOADING</span></div><div data-ready="true" class="connatix-player" style="position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;height:100%"><img fetchpriority="high" class="connatix-thumbnail" aria-hidden="true" alt="" src="https://img.connatix.com/e2f72aab-1286-4c37-807f-31514a2a00ec/1_th.jpg?crop=480:270,smart&amp;width=480&amp;height=270&amp;format=jpeg&amp;quality=60&amp;fit=crop" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:auto;aspect-ratio:16/9" width="100%" height="auto"></div></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>A hockey player who represented Australia at the 2024 <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/topic/olympics" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Olympics" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="66b3496ee4b09cb4a56b5bca" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="/topic/olympics" data-vars-target-content-type="feed" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0">Olympics</a> in Paris was arrested in the French capital on Tuesday.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Police at midday local time on Wednesday continued to hold the male athlete in custody, the Australian Olympic Committee confirmed to HuffPost in a statement.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>“No charges have been laid,” the committee added. “The AOC is continuing to make enquiries and arrange support for the Team member.”</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>The committee did not identify the player, who <a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/jo-de-paris-2024-un-membre-de-l-equipe-olympique-australienne-de-hockey-sur-gazon-en-garde-a-vue-pour-trafic-de-stupefiants_6711909.html" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="French media reported" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="66b3496ee4b09cb4a56b5bca" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/jo-de-paris-2024-un-membre-de-l-equipe-olympique-australienne-de-hockey-sur-gazon-en-garde-a-vue-pour-trafic-de-stupefiants_6711909.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1">French media reported</a> was arrested while allegedly buying cocaine.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>The Australia men’s team reached the quarterfinals of the hockey tournament but lost to the Netherlands on Sunday.</p></div>

Police detained the player in the French capital.{ai:summary}<p>In the shadowy streets of Paris, an Australian hockey player found himself in a bind more tangled than a dirty alleyway. Arrested on suspicions of cocaine purchase, he’s held while the Olympic Committee scrambles to piece together what went wrong.</p><p>With the team’s aspirations dashed in the quarterfinals, this athlete's Olympic dreams now hang in the balance, a fleeting whisper of glory drowned out by the sirens of scandal. #crime</p>

Olympian Arrested In Paris, 2 Days After Team's Loss

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