Olympic marcher Inês Henriques denounces ″sexual harassment during training″

Olympic marcher Inês Henriques denounced this Monday a situation of “sexual harassment during training” in Rio Maior, admitting to having been “apprehensive and afraid” of the situation.

“Pyropes sometimes happen, I don’t like it! Because I’m doing my job and I like to be respected, but unfortunately it has become a banal thing. A situation like this makes us apprehensive and afraid! tranquility has to be denounced,” he wrote on Facebook.

Inês Henriques, 41, European champion in Berlin2018 and world champion in London2017, in the 50 kilometer march, accused an individual of “black race and over one meter and ninety” of having “exhibited her penis” during a conversation in which he was warming up for training on the Caniceira road, in which he has been training “for over 30 years”.

“I’m usually nice to everyone and I said good morning. He looked, stopped and asked me if I was an athlete. I said yes and we were having a circumstantial conversation, I felt he was getting very close to me and I walked away I got up and continued to prepare for my training. I opened the car, to take off my shoes and, when I look at him, all this in less than two or three minutes, the guy was already showing his penis”, he revealed.

The athlete from the Rio Maior Swimming Club, who was waiting for coach Jorge Miguel, said that she “reacted with aggressive words”, as she “did not admit such a lack of respect” and later filed a complaint with the GNR assuming that she could only identify the offender, ” that did not advance and went away”, in case you see him again.

“As it was serious, it is a crime and as a woman I must not shut up! No woman should shut up in the face of a situation of sexual harassment, in any form! I am publicizing the situation to warn and (women) to be careful”, concluded.

Inês Henriques was 20th in Athens2004, 15th in London2012 and 12th in Rio2016.

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