Liz Cambage Threatens Olympic Boycott Over ‘Whitewashed’ Team Pics

Liz Cambage has threatened to boycott the Olympic Games over a photo set, complaining that the shots meant her country “doesn’t represent me” and had been “whitewashed.”

“If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times,” said Cambage on Instagram, accompanying her words with the pictures of the team in official apparel before breaking into capital letters in an accusatory tirade that included the hashtag “whitewashed Australia”.

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If I've said it once. I've said it a million times:

HOW AM I MEANT TO REPRESENT A COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T EVEN REPRESENT ME

– Liz Cambage Australian Basketballer #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/1j5vjISuQV

— Solo Monk (@JJKALE2) May 7, 2021

The Las Vegas Aces center used a follow-up post to say she was shunning this summer’s scheduled showpiece.

“Y’all really do anything to remove POCs [people of colour] from the forefront when it’s black athletes leading the pack,” she alleged, before finishing with a photo of indigenous Aussie sprinter Cathy Freedman winning 400m gold at the the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

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Australian basketball star Liz Cambage is threatening to boycott this year’s Olympics after a promotional photo shoot featuring Australian Olympians and Paralympians failed to include any athletes of color https://t.co/D7qoIQvab8

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 7, 2021

In another series of Instagram stories, Cambage went further in her criticism of the AOC and Jockey, and said she would not be speaking to the media about the issue.

“It’s sad, the whitewashing is sad,” she said.

“Your black athletes lead you everywhere — Indigenous athletes are some of the best athletes we have, and you don’t use them at all.

“And Jockey Australia, you knew exactly what you were doing. You need me to send you a list of all the POC athletes that are trying to make it to the Olympics right now that you could use? I can do it!”

The rescheduled Olympic Games in Tokyo kick off on July 21st, with the women’s basketball program starting on July 26th.

We’ll see if she follows thru on her threat.

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