Former Australian shot prima Craig Foster has urged Basketball Australia (BA) to beryllium much transparent astir superstar Liz Cambage's exit from the Opals' Tokyo Olympics campaign.
In the lead-up to the Tokyo Games, the WNBA superstar withdrew from the Australian squad, for which she flagged intelligence wellness issues, including panic attacks.
In Cambage's absence, the Opals got thumped successful the quarter-finals by Team USA.
But anterior to the 30-year-old's withdrawal, Cambage was progressive successful a heated clash during a warm-up crippled against Nigeria, getting into a carnal altercation and exchanging words with the opposition.
Following an autarkic BA reappraisal into the matter, Cambage wasn't fined oregon suspended contempt being recovered blameworthy of 1 charge.
"The panel, aft introspection of the grounds earlier it, determined that Elizabeth Cambage did prosecute successful behaviour that brought Basketball Australia into censure successful narration to 1 of the incidents charged," BA said successful a statement.
Foster, who was discussing the substance alongside netball large Liz Ellis, suggested BA's connection failed to springiness fans and outsiders a amended knowing of what went down.
"In presumption of the sanction, I agree... nary 1 is the wiser arsenic to what's gone on," Foster told Nine's Sports Sunday.
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"I person wide mistrust anyhow of overmuch of what athletics does erstwhile it closes ranks and galore of the panels and enquires that some of america (Foster and Liz Ellis) person sat connected galore times.
"I deliberation it's important for radical to cognize conscionable a small spot of clarity astir what happened, what was the existent charge, what was the incident?
"Not astir Liz (Cambage), but successful sport, the inference tin ever beryllium that the prima players are indispensable for the crippled and we privation them to play successful the adjacent one.
"I'm not saying that's the lawsuit here. What I'm saying is - that immoderate clarity connected what goes connected wrong these chambers, successful sport, I deliberation it's truly important."
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