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A sexual assault trial involving two former University of Ottawa hockey players has been delayed again, this time until 2018.

Former team captain David Foucher and assistant captain Guillaume Donovan were charged with the sexual assault of a 21-year-old Lakehead University student.

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The two players are alleged to have sexually assaulted the woman at a hotel in Thunder Bay on Feb. 2, 2014.

The trial, which was originally slated to begin in August 2016, was delayed until August 2017 after one of the attorneys representing the defendants asked for a delay due to a medical emergency in the lawyer’s family.

The trial’s new date is set for February 2018.

The Ministry of the Attorney General’s office confirmed the newest delay was also requested by the defence but would not say why.

The players were charged by police following a months-long investigation into the alleged assault, which began after a friend of the woman contacted the U of O with a complaint.