“You no longer know what is happening to you”
Athlete talks about gelaked sex video
Updated on 07.08.2025 – 10:57 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A teammate takes intimate video recordings by athlete Zoë Sedney. Now she talks about the incident.
A Dutch athlete was secretly filmed during sex – by a teammate. In an interview with the Dutch magazine “Runner”, the Olympic participant Zoë Sedney now reported on the incident that is said to have occurred in 2023.
Accordingly, she was invited to a meeting with the association during the summer break in 2023. “I had no idea what it was about,” she said. Then she had been shown that there was an anonymous message to the association. “They said I was admitted in a private situation when I was intimate with one of my training partners and that these pictures were spread,” she reports to the sports magazine. She knew nothing about the recordings and did not allow its spread.
The world collapsed for them. “You no longer know what is happening to you. You are so vulnerable. Terribly,” she recalled. The athlete who took the recordings had to leave the training center in Papendal, but had returned a short time later. “Suddenly I had to train with him again,” said Sedney. Sedney decided to file a complaint about sexual abuse. However, since the “difficult process” could possibly take longer than two years, she decided to drop the lawsuit.
She criticized the behavior of the Dutch athletics association. “There was no open and honest conversation, no honest explanation or statement. Nothing happened that gave me the impression that he worked on himself and had learned from the situation,” she said. You could no longer trust the training partner at the time.
The then technical director told her that he did not know about a return of the athlete, but it was clear to her. Then he reappeared in Papendal. “I was apart from myself. A feeling of complete powerlessness,” she described the time back then. She grabbed her things and left the training center. It was also clear that an Olympic participation in Paris was no longer possible. Sedney returned to her parents and initially got out of athletics.
She had severe depression and it took months for her to feel better again. Now she trains with the para athlete team under the former athlete Guido Bonsen. “I can honestly say that I have never been so happy in my life. I feel good,” she said “Runners”. She works on her bachelor’s degree, researches the human musculoskeletal system. Her belief helped her to forgive and get back on her feet. She is now optimistic about the future: “I am very excited about what is still coming.”