Swans AFLW Team Faces Charges Amid Sexual Assault Investigation, Five Men’s Players Stand,
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With the Swans, none of the five players stood down for breaching club standards amid a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault have been charged – and may not be – though all have been suspended for events at the Pullman Hotel in the wee hours of last Monday morning.
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Swans AFLW captain Lucy McEvoy and coach Colin O’Riordan are speaking for the first time since five of the club’s men’s players were stood down for breaching club standards, and a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault continues.
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The Swans AFLW team are playing as part of a double-header at the SCG on Sunday. It will be just the second time the women’s team have played for competition points at the historic ground, but the occasion has been overshadowed by the sexual assault allegation surrounding members of the men’s team.
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01 BBC Sport Published Ospreys have confirmed the return of former Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones as a director.
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02 SMH Sport Between Scots, St Gregory’s and the Swans, it has been a shocking week for famously male environments which have generated appalling allegations of sexual assault.
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