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04 Aug 2021
Rugby Australia and Football Australia are investigating allegations of “heavily intoxicated” players acting inappropriately on a Japan Airlines (JAL) flight.
Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll told
The Guardian the two football codes had said they would take full responsibility following reports of incidents involving Australian athletes during a flight from Tokyo to Sydney last Friday.
Carroll said that while the airline had made no official complaint, the behaviour of the athletes was “unacceptable”.
“It’s extremely disappointing, but both rugby and football have told me that such behaviour is certainly not acceptable within their sports and have sincerely apologised to the Australian Olympic team,” he said.
August 04, 2021
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Australian athletes damaged their Tokyo Olympics athletes’ village rooms before departing, the Australian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday (Aug 3), while other teammates showed “unacceptable behaviour” on their flight home.
Australian media reported that a raucous gathering left damaged beds and a hole in the wall. Cleaners had to clear a pool of vomit in one room.
Team Australia chief Ian Chesterman played down the incident, saying that the offenders had apologised and would not be punished.
“Some young people made a mistake, they had left the rooms in a condition that was unacceptable,” said Chesterman.
He described the damage as “minor” and that it was “not the hardest thing to break the cardboard bed”.
Olympic swim stars enter quarantine on return to Australia
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Olympic swim stars enter quarantine on return to Australia.. Image Source: IANS News
Canberra, Aug 4 : Australia s star Olympic swimmers have returned home after winning nine gold medals in the pool in Tokyo.
More than 100 members of the Australian Olympic team arrived in the Northern Territory on Tuesday where they will undergo 14 days of quarantine, mandatory for all international arrivals to Australia.
Among the 115 athletes and support staff on board the flight were members of the swimming team that won a record nine gold medals in Tokyo, the number of which is more than at the previous two games combined, breaking the previous record of eight swimming gold set at the 1956 home Olympics in Melbourne.
Oz Olympians fly high, too high
published : 4 Aug 2021 at 13:30
1 Australian men s rugby sevens players react after their win over Canada in Tokyo on July 28. (Photo: Reuters)
Members of the Australian Olympic men s soccer and rugby sevens teams are facing investigations into unruly behaviour on their flight home from Tokyo.
Japan Airlines has submitted a written complaint to the Australian Olympic Committee alleging hours of rowdy and drunkenantics during the teams’ 10-hour return flight from Tokyo to Sydney, according to a report by Sydney-based The Daily Telegraph.
The report quotes other passengers on the flight, which touched down Friday morning, as saying some players refused to follow instructions by airline staff to sit down. Players also allegedly raided alcohol stored in the galley of the plane, despite pleas by the airline staff not to do so.