“Some young people made a mistake, they had left the rooms in a condition that was unacceptable,” Team Australia chief Ian Chesterman told reporters Aug. 3, per Reuters. But the damage was “minor,” he insisted, and it was “not the hardest thing to break the cardboard bed. The rooms were not ‘completely trashed’ in any way.” Yes, there was a hole, he confirmed, but the walls were “flimsy” and “temporary” and the athletes had apologized for their behavior.
The country’s governing bodies for rugby and football (a.k.a. soccer) are also investigating accusations from national team officials that certain players caused a drunken disturbance on their 10-hour Japan Airlines flight back to Sydney, with some vomiting near their seats and rendering a toilet unusable.
The accusations were met with indignation, one unnamed athlete telling The Australian, “Who cares who f–king threw up, it’s not World War III! Why is rugby being dragged through the mud?” Another rugby player denied his team’s involvement, telling The Australian, “Well, if you look at where the vomit was, it wasn’t near our seating plan.” Yet another sportsman protested, “We were rubbish on the field but we can hold our alcohol.”
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