Should Stephen van de velde be in the Olympics?

[soready]

He pre-planned and raped a child, and is now celebrated by his fans in the Olympics do you feel this is right or do you think he's served one year of his sentence so he'd paid for his crime?

No

Why should the olympics be a profession from which ex offenders with spent convictions are barred though?

it’s not that difficult to work out. How do you think the victim and their family feel seeing her rapist competing in the international stage and spotlight of the Olympics?

This. His victim will have to deal with the trauma for the rest of her life, she should not have to be retraumatised by seeing her rapist lauded on the world stage.

Plus the despicable git isn't even really remorseful - he calls it a mistake that HE will have to live with (even though it appears to have had no impact on his career), no consideration for her at all. Flying to another country deliberately to rape a child you know to be only 12 is not a fecking "mistake" .