She’s In, Baby
Liz Cambage has given up her Olympic boycott and is now prepared to play hooptyball for Australia in Tokyo.
Racial warrior Cambage apparently changed her mind due to the attractiveness of Australia’s basketball costume:
The basketball star confirmed she would be taking part in the Olympics after last week threatening to boycott the Games in protest over Australia’s lack of recognition of athletes of colour in its promotional material.
“For everyone so desperately wondering what my decision is for the Opals, I’m in baby. I’m in baby! I’m in! Wooooo!” she said in a video …
“How can I sit out when we have the bodysuits back? I’m going to look so good in it.”
Generous Liz is doing it for the kids:
“I’m going to play with my sisters that I’ve been playing with since I was a wee little thing and I’m going to ball out for all those young brown kids back in Australia watching me, baby. I’m going to do it for you!”
The England-born 29-year-old then lashed out at “people that are intimidated and scared and insecure and hide behind fake profiles and talk s**t because you’re too scared to do anything":
“I’m out here talking my s**t with my big-a*** mouth, being a big-old b***h, making change, baby …
“I’m not going to stop for no one or nothing.”
Except for a pretty piece of fabric.
UPDATE. The Guardian’s Associated Press copy omits Liz’s line about the Australian outfit. Why?
UPDATE II. Fifteen-year NBA/NBL veteran Andrew Bogut calls out Cambage’s “poor form”:
Speaking on his podcast Rogue Bogues, Bogut cautioned against “counting” diversity in photos …
“Counting the amount of different skin colours in a photo is just poor form,” Bogut said.
“It’s a pretty slippery slope once you start counting.
“Some of our most prominent people of colour that play for Australia, Patty Mills and Ben Simmons, they’re playing in the best league in the world right now, they can’t even come to that photo shoot.
“I don’t think Cambage can, she’s probably overseas.
“There’s a lot of different factors that go into it, this is made out like it was a blatant effort to whitewash the photo, to make Australia look white.
“C’mon. Not in today’s day and age, you’d be an idiot if you’re running the AOC to do that, because you’re going to get blow ups.”
Cambage’s response:
Mr Bogut’s obsession with me so strange, it’s been like 10 years of you speaking on my name.... if you want me just say that ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜
— Elizabeth Cambage (@ecambage) May 11, 2021
Bogut wins:
Love ya @ecambage ! ðŸ˜
— Andrew Bogut (@andrewbogut) May 11, 2021
Could you please not use all yellow emojis and use a more diverse range of emojis next time.
Thanks! https://t.co/dlnPDETtRn
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