Arbitrator overturns suspension of Canadian figure skater Nikolaj Sorensen for sexual maltreatment

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 3:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

An arbitrator has overturned Canadian fig skater Nikolaj Sorensen's suspension of astatine slightest six years for intersexual maltreatment.

Skate Canada said successful a connection that it has lifted its sanctions against Sorensen aft receiving Thursday's determination by the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

The governing assemblage suspended Sorensen successful October 2024 aft the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner investigated an allegation that helium sexually assaulted an American fig skating manager and erstwhile skater successful Hartford, Conn., successful 2012.

He appealed, and successful the determination from SDRCC, arbitrator Carol Roberts ruled that the Director of Sanctions and Outcomes incorrectly concluded that OSIC had jurisdiction to analyse the allegations erstwhile deciding Sorensen's punishment.

In a transcript of the determination obtained by The Canadian Press, Roberts said Sorensen did not expressly consent to beryllium retroactively bound to the UCCMS (Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment successful Sport), the nationalist maltreatment argumentation that governs behaviour successful Canadian sport.

Sorensen was not a Canadian national and was not competing for Skate Canada astatine the clip of the alleged incident. He has besides denied the allegation, which has not been tested successful court.

The 35-year-old Sorensen competed for Denmark, his state of birth, earlier switching to Canada erstwhile erstwhile crystal creation spouse Laurence Fournier Beaudry, of Montreal, was incapable to get Danish citizenship up of the 2018 Olympics successful Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Fournier Beaudry announced earlier this twelvemonth that she's forming a caller concern with Guillaume Cizeron that volition correspond France this season.