Basketball: Liz Cambage Says She’s In Talks To Represent Nigeria
Basketball: Liz Cambage Says She’s In Talks To Represent Nigeria
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Liz Cambage says she’s in talks to leave the Australian team to represent Nigeria in the Olympics.
She maintains she did not use a racial slur towards the Nigerian team during a scrimmage ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
(via Taylor Rooks X)
Liz Cambage says she’s in talks to leave the Australian team to represent Nigeria in the Olympics.She maintains she did not use a racial slur towards the Nigerian team during a scrimmage ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics(via Taylor Rooks X) pic.twitter.com/8VOWEMtUzH— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 7, 2023
Interviewer: The altercation with the Nigerian team. Obviously there were reports of a physical and verbal altercation between your Australian team and the Nigerian team and a report says that you called the players monkeys and told them to go back to their third world country. You have vehemently denied these reports, but there are also a group of people that say that you did say these things. Why are these stories so drastically different?
Liz Cambage: A lot of girls don’t like me. I don’t really lean towards racially backed insults. That’s not how I go. I’m very pro-black.
Interviewer: So you maintain that you did not say these things?
Liz Cambage: I did not say these to these girls.
Interviewer: Why would something as bad as this happen?
Liz Cambage: Because the truth looks a lot worse for other organisations involved, than using me as a scapegoat. Like why does Nigeria want me to leave Australia and go represent them?
Interviewer: You’re saying right now?
Liz Cambage: We’re filing for me to leave the Australian team so I can represent Nigeria.
Interviewer: Because Nigeria would like you to join the team.
Liz Cambage: I’ve been in cahoots. I’ve been talking with them since all of this happened. This is what I mean, people don’t know the truth.
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