Convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde and the Netherlands reach the last-16 in the beach volleyball at the Paris Olympics... as the Dutchman is again booed loudly by spectators

Convicted kid rapist Steven van de Velde received a dispute reception again arsenic he was loudly booed by nan crowd during nan Netherlands' volleyball conclusion against Norway.

The 29-year-old is simply a convicted activity offender aft he antecedently raped a 12-year-old girl, but was controversially named successful nan Netherlands Olympic volleyball squad.

Van de Velde was jailed for 4 years aft he flew from nan Netherlands to nan UK to meet nan schoolgirl successful August 2014 aft nan brace started chatting connected Facebook.

The sportsman, who was 19 and knew really young nan woman was astatine nan time, was sentenced successful March 2016 to 4 years successful situation aft admitting 3 counts of rape. He was released successful 2017 having only served a twelvemonth of his sentence.

On Friday, he was fixed a frosty invited erstwhile stepping retired onto nan tribunal astatine the Eiffel Tower Stadium for their 3rd volleyball lucifer astatine nan Olympics successful Paris.

Van de Velde walked retired alongside team-mate Matthew Immers and was later deed pinch a chorus of boos and whistles from nan crowd erstwhile his sanction was publication retired to fans successful attendance.

Further shouts and noises of displeasure were besides audible astatine times erstwhile Van de Velde served successful nan 2-0 nonaccomplishment against reigning Olympic volleyball champions Anders Mol and Christian Sorum.

However, contempt losing, Van de Velde's Olympic travel will proceed aft reaching nan last-16 information of nan arena having won conscionable 1 of their 3 matches.

A judge antecedently Van de Velde that his promising profession was a 'shattered dream' pursuing his vile conviction, but against nan likelihood and nationalist outcry, made nan squad for nan Paris Games.

However, he is not staying pinch different athletes successful Olympic colony after the British Olympic Association aired concerns complete nan matter pinch nan IOC.

Dutch Olympic selectors supported Van de Velde's inclusion successful their squad and antecedently explained he had met each nan criteria needed to look astatine nan Games successful France's capital.

'Since 2018, Steven van de Velde has been participating successful world formation volleyball tournaments again pursuing an intensive, professionally supervised trajectory,' a spokesperson told Mail Sport.

'Meanwhile, Steven van de Velde has met each qualification criteria for nan Olympic Games and is truthful included successful nan group of athletes who formally passed complete connected July 4 from nan Dutch nationalist federations to NOC, who past becomes responsible for them during nan Olympic Games.'