Gymnast kicked off the Netherlands’ team

Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been kicked off the Netherlands’ team at the Olympics and is being sent home from Rio for breaching team rules.
The Royal Netherlands Gymnastics Association says Van Gelder, a former world champion on the rings, left the athletes’ village on Saturday night and has admitted drinking alcohol before returning early Sunday.
The 33-year-old Van Gelder, who was to have taken part in the rings final in Brazil, had no immediate comment, according to a statement yesterday on his website.
Maurits Hendriks, head of the Dutch Olympic team in Rio, is quoted on the gymnastics association website as saying “it is awful for Yuri, but this behavior is unacceptable.”
This is not the first time that Van Gelder has run into disciplinary problems. In 2010, he was dropped from the Dutch team for the Gymnastics World Championships after he admitted using cocaine. That tournament was to have marked his comeback after a one-year ban for cocaine use. AP