{"id":508387,"date":"2022-07-08T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=508387"},"modified":"2022-07-09T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T14:04:12","slug":"i-didnt-feel-like-the-body-i-was-in-belonged-to-me-mary-sophie-harvey-opens-up-about-drugging-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/i-didnt-feel-like-the-body-i-was-in-belonged-to-me-mary-sophie-harvey-opens-up-about-drugging-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Didn\u2019t Feel Like the Body I Was in Belonged to Me:” Mary-Sophie Harvey Opens Up about Drugging Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI Didn\u2019t Feel Like the Body I Was in Belonged to Me:” Mary-Sophie Harvey Opens Up about Drugging Incident<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Mary-Sophie Harvey<\/strong> returned to Canada last week, the bruises were the first reminder. But even as they\u2019ve started to fade and the swimmer has returned to training, a broader, scarier feeling of dissociation has followed her.<\/p>\n

A successful World Championships in Hungary ended under frightening circumstances when Harvey reported being drugged on a night out with swimmers. Her physical wounds \u2013 widespread bruising, a rib sprain and a mild concussion \u2013 are healing, she\u2019s still working on restoring her psyche.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a good World Championships as well. It was one of my best meets in a while and I was really pleased with the performance I had,\u201d Harvey said on a Zoom call with media Friday. \u201cIt was my first big international medal that I got there. I just remember opening the box back home and I didn\u2019t feel like it belonged to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t feel like the body I was in belonged to me. I was just going through the motions, and I think that\u2019s the sad part about it. Because this wonderful meet I had was tarnished by this event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the healing was what Harvey volunteered Friday. She announced the incident on social media Wednesday<\/a> \u2013 also the day she tested positive for COVID-19 and had to isolate \u2013 and decided to speak up in an effort to alleviate for others some of the compounding shame she\u2019s struggled with.<\/p>\n

Details are scant, and the subject of an investigation referred by Swimming Canada\u2019s to the nation\u2019s SafeSport body. FINA, in a statement Thursday<\/a>, said it is \u201cdeeply concerned about her well-being and \u201care in contact with Swimming Canada and the Local Organizing Committee\u201d in Budapest. Harvey said she has not had contact with FINA, but Swimming Canada has made resources available to her.<\/p>\n

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