Olympics are meant to be about role models… so how can it be that among athletes is a man who raped a 12-year-old?

AS the Olympics began in Paris with a stunning ceremony on the River Seine, we all knew that disgraced dressage star Charlotte Dujardin wouldn’t be there among the 10,500 athletes.

And she didn’t deserve to be.

GettySteven van de Velde was 19 when he travelled to Milton Keynes from the Netherlands in 2014 and raped a 12-year-old girl[/caption] GettyCharlotte Dujardin isn’ t competing in the Olympics after being filmed whipping her horse[/caption]

Footage from four years...