Skier slept in igloo to escape coach, trial told

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The advances continued throughout 1996 and into 1997, she said, adding Charest invited her over to his house several times for sex during that period.

In Austria in early 1997, Charest brought her to the bathroom of a hotel, locked the door and had sex with her while she was sitting on a sink, she testified.

During her morning testimony she said they went back to that hotel several times during the trip.

However, during crossexamination, she clarified she only fully remembered having sex in that bathroom on just one occasion.

She added Charest never used condoms during any of their sexual encounters.

The witness said it was only in the summer of 1997 she finally had the courage to tell him to stop.

She was alone with him at the Toronto airport and they had missed a connecting flight to New Zealand, she said.

“He rented a single room with one bed,” she testified.

She said that when he tried to be intimate with her, she left the room and spent part of the night sleeping in the bathtub.

“In Toronto, when you said no, was that the last time?” Crown attorney Nathalie Tremblay asked.

“Yes,” she responded. was free.”

During cross-examination, defence lawyer Antonio Cabral asked her if there was anything positive about her years as a student under Charest. “It was hell,” she said. He then showed her a signed, mounted photo of herself skiing in Italy when she was 15, toward the end of her first full year with Charest as her coach.

The photo is signed, “To my coach and accomplice, thank you for everything.” Included in the signature are three marks that symbolize kisses.

“How do you send a gift to someone who made you suffer through hell?” he asked her.

“I wanted to continue my career,” she replied, “to hide what was happening.”

While Charest worked with Alpine Canada’s women’s development team between 1996 and 1998, some of the charges involving Tuesday’s witness and other alleged victims are related to alleged incidents that preceded his spell with the national organization. “I