The allegations surrounding Mexican Championship Tour surfer (and Paris 2024 Olympian) Alan Cleland Jr. continue to reverberate through the surf world. Now, the Federación Mexicana de Surfing has broken its silence. The federation issued a statement after reports linked Cleland, 24, to an alleged sexual assault involving a 16-year-old Australian surfer at a private gathering in Tahiti following the Outerknown Tahiti Pro in August. Surfing World first identified Cleland as the competitor suspended by the World Surf League and reported that the incident allegedly involved the teenage surfer and at least three other men. See the statement, linked here , and below. View this post on Instagram The WSL itself has not publicly named Cleland or detailed the allegations. It said only that a Men’s Championship Tour competitor had been suspended after it learned of allegations of a “deeply serious nature” stemming from a private gathering in Tahiti.…