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Australia Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll has spoken to ABC News Breakfast about Australia’s decision to join the diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Prime minister Scott Morrison yesterday confirmed that Australian officials will not attend the 2022 games, joining the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the event. Morrison said a deterioration in the diplomatic relationship between Australia and China led to the decision, but said athletes will still attend.
There are two parts to that, we leave the diplomacy to the government, and theOlympic Games are on, the team is attending, the athletes have been preparing for four years, theOlympic Games sign on a acolyte on the country that is holding it, that athletes are free to make comments about anything, so those issues are not forgotten, they are very important by the importance of our sport as it brings the world together. The world is coming toBeijing, my counterpart I was talking to yesterday, UK, Canada,New Zealand, US, teams are going, so the world ‘s athletes will come together in Beijing, and shine a light.
Emergency services received a report of a sedan being swept off a street and into a nearby creek in Pullenvale as a result of moving floodwaters about 4.40pm on Wednesday.
The body of a 75-year-old Taringa woman, the sole occupant of the car, was recovered.
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