Athletics Australia plays down 'double standards' claim as Olympians stay in Sydney during lockdown

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Athletics Australia says it chose to keep eight of its Tokyo-bound athletes in Sydney rather than move them to Cairns amid suggestions the Queensland government is giving NRL players preferential treatment.

AA determined the athletes would gain greater benefit remaining in their "home training environment in Sydney".

"Our high-performance team looked at every consideration and decided against a two-week hotel quarantine in Queensland, which meant the athletes would still not have been with the rest of the team in camp," AA president Mark Arbib told The Ticket. "That decision was made earlier this week, but when the NRL news broke, naturally it raised concerns for us about preferential treatment.LIVE UPDATES: Read our blog for the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic

But she said they had at least been provided with a degree of certainty about where they stood before leaving for Tokyo.

 

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The Olympics should be cancelled immediately...

Why? Because basically politicians have no fucking idea..... but we still keep paying them every month while the rest of Australians go broke

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