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MELBOURNE: Australian women's basketballer Liz Cambage has protested at a lack of racial diversity in Olympic photo-shoots of the country's ...

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Olympics-Basketballer Cambage says Australia "whitewashing" Games promotionsMELBOURNE: Australian women's basketballer Liz Cambage has protested at a lack of racial diversity in Olympic photo-shoots of the country's athletes and suggested she might boycott the Tokyo Games if the situation did not change.

"Also fake tan doesn't equal diversity," she wrote under a photo of athletes posing for Asics, a Japanese sports apparel firm."Y'all really do anything to remove POCs from the forefront when it’s black athletes leading the pack.She posted a video of Indigenous Australian Cathy Freeman's gold medal-winning 400 metres run at the 2000 Sydney Games and wrote:"Also just to remind you Australia's GREATEST sporting moment was thanks too BLACK INDIGENOUS WOMAN.

"The athletes made available to Jockey could and should have better reflected the rich diversity of athletes who represent Australia at the Olympic Games," the AOC said in a statement."The AOC does however have a very proud history of celebrating and promoting diversity in all its forms. The 29-year-old Cambage, who won a team bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, is in the United States preparing for the upcoming WNBA season with the Las Vegas Aces.

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