Photo Sparks Olympic Boycott
This is currently front page news in Australian newspapers
Australia’s biggest women’s basketball star Liz Cambage has threatened to abandon the Tokyo Olympics after taking issue with a team photo.
The photos
Cambage, 29, who has played for our national women’s basketball team the Opals at the past two Olympics, made the threat on Instagram on Thursday in a series of posts.
She shared two images — one of athletes showing off Australia’s uniform for the Games and another promoting the official underwear sponsor of the team — she said were examples of whitewashing and did not represent the diverse backgrounds of Australia’s athletes.
“If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times, HOW AM I MEANT TO REPRESENT A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EVEN REPRESENT ME,” Cambage wrote.
“Y’all do anything to remove POC (People of Colour) from the forefront when it’s black athletes leading the pack,” she added.
It's interesting I have noticed a demographic shift in our Olympic athletics and basketball team not being represented by the AOC webpage or their marketing. She may have a point.
Well, turns out she isn't exactly "boycotting" the games:
The 29-year-old Las Vegas Aces centre sensationally bowed out of the Tokyo games earlier this month citing mental health reasons after she was involved in a clash with players from the west African nation in a warm-up match.
The fiery confrontation is still under investigation by the sport's national governing body Basketball Australia.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9830311/Aussie-basketball-star-Liz-Cambage-posts-bizarre-video-supporting-NIGERIA-Tokyo-Olympics.html
There is also the problem of:
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The WNBA star also denied she went outside the Opals team bubble, declaring: “I’ve been in here (hotel room) and the only time I left this goddamn bubble was for the All-Star game.”
However, multiple sources close to the playing group have told NewsCorp that Cambage had been seen out in Las Vegas and wasn’t in the team hotel for long periods of time.
The incident against Nigeria and other behavioural issues have privately frustrated Opals teammates for some time, prompting player-led discussions around the centre’s future, including her potential removal from the team.
But just hours after the AOC confirmed there was an investigation into the Cambage altercation against Nigeria, the Opals’ best player released a statement saying she was withdrawing from the Tokyo Games due to mental health concerns.
Source: https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/olympics-basketball-star-liz-cambage-is-officially-under-investigation-after-quitting-the-tokyo-games/news-story/195de801d2577413d55c4b0d02ab67a3
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