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Australiaâs 3x3 womenâs basketball team missed their flight to Europe for their Olympic qualifying tournament after Basketball Australia failed to secure them travel exemptions to leave the country.
The five-player squad was due to fly to Austria for its FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament from Melbourne Airport on Saturday at 11pm, but the players arrived to find they didnât have the exemptions needed to leave the country. Despite last-minute attempts, the players could not get them in time to fly out.
Outspoken Australian basketball star Liz Cambage s said her defiant attitude comes from her childhood where she felt so out of place she once wanted to kill herself.
Cambage, 29, polarised sport fans when she called out the Australian Olympic Committee over a perceived lack of racial diversity in its promotional photos.
The basketball superstar lived with her Australian mum Julia after a split from her Nigerian father in 1991 and was bullied and teased as dirty at school in Melbourne.
Liz Cambage (right) has said her mum Julia (left) taught her how to be true to herself and not take any s
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Australia s Liz Cambage wants to see more racial diversity in the promotion of Australia s team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics | REUTERS
REUTERS May 7, 2021
Melbourne – Australian women’s basketball player Liz Cambage is protesting the lack of racial diversity in Olympic photoshoots of the nation’s athletes and has suggested she might boycott the Tokyo Games if the situation does not change.
Cambage, a two-time Olympian, criticized pictures of Australian Olympic and Paralympic athletes, taken at sponsors’ photoshoots, on her Instagram account.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian women’s basketballer Liz Cambage has protested at a lack of racial diversity in Olympic photo-shoots of the country’s athletes and suggested she might boycott the Tokyo Games if the situation did not change.
FILE PHOTO: Australian Olympians pose in front of the Sydney Opera House at the unveiling of the team uniforms for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in Sydney, Australia March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Nick Mulvenney/File Photo
Twice Olympian Cambage criticised pictures of Australian Olympic and Paralympic athletes taken at sponsors’ photo-shoots on her Instagram account.
“If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times. HOW AM I MEANT TO REPRESENT A COUNTRY THAT DOESNT EVEN REPRESENT ME #whitewashedaustralia,” Cambage, who was born to a Nigerian father, captioned a photo for underwear sponsor Jockey.