Ana Peleteiro: “I didn’t report because I didn’t know what was happening to me”

The Galician athlete Ana Peleteiro, The European champion and Olympic triple jump medalist at Tokyo 2020, defended himself on Tuesday against people They criticize him for not reporting before the competent bodies sexual assault and psychological abuse that he suffered from a former partner, whose name he did not give.

“Obviously, if this happens to me now, so what I am a woman with a higher sexual education than Ana to whom this happened and I have to suffer from what I suffered in the past, maybe the first day it happened to me, the first, I will run to the police and file a report.”, explained the athlete in a video published on his TikTok account.

The problem, in Peleteiro’s opinion, is that there are many victims of “this kind of situation” They don’t know that this is “not normal.”as it happened to him at that stage.

“I I thought it was a normal relationship and those things are completely normal and I have to put up with them, that’s why I put up with them”, he assured.

In his story, the national record holder (14.87 meters) admitted that, as a result of go to therapy and talk to your friends and familywas when he realized that his former partner’s behavior ““They’re not normal.”.

“These are thoughts that are terrible”Peleteiro was criticized, recalling that in 2022 he publicly denounced what he suffered on Sindy Takanashi’s ‘The Nails’ program. “sexual abuse” by her ex-partner.

“Today the same thing will not happen to meI was about to report and go to the police. Although there is no proof, perhaps, I would have filed a complaintbut at that moment I couldn’t because I didn’t realize what was happening to me.”, he emphasized.

The athlete justified his decision not to speak to the media because “I don’t want to make a circus here”but he said that if he published these videos it was because “maybe other people who are going through the same thing they feel recognized and come out to report“.

In this sense, he clarified that “if this happened to me today, I will go to the police first. My only way to raise awareness and find both physical and psychological abuse is by shedding light on what I experienced. I don’t care about people who don’t believe me.”.

Ana Peleteiro had a five-year relationship – between 2016 and 2021 – with the Portuguese Olympic champion, of Ivorian origin, Nelson Evora. Months later, he began his relationship with Benjamín Campoaréthat he has a woman with him.