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Tennis Australia board breaks silence to commend Craig Tiley following Novak Djokovic saga

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Original article by Emma Kemp
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 19-Jan-22

Tennis Australia has issued its first public statement on the Novak Djokovic visa controversy. Tennis Australia’s board says it respects the decision of immigration minister Alex Hawke to cancel Djokovic’s visa and the federal court’s ruling against the Serbian tennis champion’s bid to have it reinstated. The board has also praised Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley, who has been under pressure to resign in the wake of the Djokovic crisis.

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Delaying the NRL grand final is an option

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Original article by Dean Ritchie, Jeremy Ritchie
The Australian – Page: 23 : 1-Oct-21

Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys says the NRL Grand Final due to be played on 3 October could be postponed if Queensland’s COVID-19 crisis worsens and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk bans crowds from attending the game at Suncorp Stadium. Stating that the game must be played in front of a crowd, he says the NRL’s preferred option would be to switch the game to Townsville. Any decision to switch the game to Townsville will have to be made by late on 1 October to give officials enough time to make all the arrangements, but Townsville has also been impacted by COVID-19.

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Chef de mission salutes gold standard

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Original article by Jacquelin Magnay
The Australian – Page: 27 : 9-Aug-21

Australia’s chef de mission Ian Chesterman has praised the nation’s Olympics team for its performance in Tokyo, as well as the organisers of the Covid-delayed sporting event. He believes that Japan is the only nation that could have successfully held the Olympics during a pandemic, and describes the Tokyo Olympics as "the Games of our times". Australia won a record-equalling 17 gold medals in Tokyo, plus seven silver and 22 bronze. The nation finished sixth overall on the medal tally; Japan was in third place, behind China and the US.

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‘Heartbreaking’: Grand Prix cancelled again

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Original article by Patrick Durkin
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 7 : 7-Jul-21

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Victorian government to cancel the Australian Formula One Grand Prix for a second year. The 2021 race had already been rescheduled from March to November; the government has attributed its cancellation to factors such as the pace of the national vaccination rollout and a recent decision to slash the weekly cap on international arrivals. The logistics involved in the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for drivers and support teams is also said to have contributed to the Grand Prix’s cancellation. The Phillip Island round of the MotoGP world championship will also not be staged in 2021.

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Big team but little expectation on Games

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 6-Jul-21

Australia will send a team of 472 athletes to the Tokyo Olympic Games, including 254 women and a record 16 indigenous athletes. Australia will compete in 33 sports at the coronavirus-delayed Olympics; however, the team’s chef de mission Ian Chesterman says the Australian Olympic Committee has chosen not to issue an official forecasts about the number of medals that the nation will win. The Australian team fell short of medal expectations at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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NRL players under tight COVID-19 restrictions, State of Origin III may be moved from Sydney

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abc.net au – Page: Online : 29-Jun-21

The Australian Rugby League Commission will meet on 29 June to decide how to progress the NRL competition in the wake of the current COVID-19 situation. Four Sydney clubs are preparing for matches without crowds, but could find themselves being moved after the meeting. Players and officials have been placed on level four biosecurity protocols, which include restrictions such as not having visitors to their home, while the ARLC needs to decide whether to move the third State of Origin match on 14 July from Sydney. Newcastle is an option if it wants to keep the game in NSW, while Gold Coast and Melbourne are interstate options.

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Australian Open could be forced offshore due to coronavirus border closure

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Original article by Catherine Murphy
abc.net au – Page: Online : 17-May-21

Tennis players are said to be unwilling to go through two weeks of hotel quarantine again before the Australian Open if the nation’s international borders remain closed until mid-2022. It is believed that Tennis Australia is prepared to move the 2022 Australian Open to Doha or Dubai if it and the federal government cannot come to an agreement on less rigid quarantine arrangements. Melbourne’s Formula One grand prix will also need quarantine arrangements to be eased if it is to go ahead in November, after it was switched from March.

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Tennis year unworkable if quarantine remains, says Djokovic

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Original article by Greg Baum
The Age – Page: Online : 17-Feb-21

Novak Djokovic says there is a growing view among players that the 2021 tennis season will be unviable if they have to quarantine for 14 days before each tournament. The world number one-ranked men’s player has raised the possibility of staging the rest of the year’s major tournaments in a single location, and contends that the issue must be addressed quickly given that the season has begun. Djokovic adds that players had accepted the Australian Open quarantine measures as it is a grand slam, but notes that many ATP tournaments in 2021 will have reduced prizemoney.

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Fans dunked as NBL postpones season opener on virus outbreaks

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Original article by Jessica Gardner
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 7-Jan-21

The first game of the 2021 National Basketball League was due to be played in regional Victoria on 10 January between the NBL’s two Melbourne teams. However, the recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne has seen that game postponed, and the first game will now be held on 15 January between the Cairns Taipans and the Hawks in Cairns. The first two rounds of the season will be restricted to virus-free locations, while the postponed Melbourne derby has been tentatively scheduled for Bendigo on 31 January.

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Reduced capacity an income bouncer

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Original article by Glenda Korporaal
The Australian – Page: 13 & 16 : 7-Jan-21

Venues New South Wales chairman Tony Shepherd says the Sydney Cricket Ground will lose money on the third Test as a result of the reduced capacity of 12,000. Shepherd, who is a former president of the Business Council of Australia, notes the SCG only gets money from the sale of tickets and food and beverage, but that it respects the decision of the NSW government and health authorities regarding reduced crowd numbers. Shepherd says it is very important that sport continues at the present time, as he says it is what keeps people healthy and "holds this country together"

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