https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinXRugby\/status\/1422477740809334792?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n "Rugby Australia expects the highest standards of all its employees, modelling the values of our game – respect, integrity, passion and teamwork," RA said in a short statement.<\/p>\n The AOC later released its own statement, saying it had been made aware of unacceptable behaviour by team members on a return flight to Sydney on July 30.<\/p>\n The AOC convened a meeting with the chief executives from sports that had representatives on the flight and rugby and football had advised AOC boss Matt Carroll "that they are taking full responsibility for their players."<\/p>\n "While there has been no formal complaint from the airline, unacceptable behaviour was brought to our attention and I directly raised the issue with our member sports CEOs," Carroll said.<\/p>\n "It's extremely disappointing but both rugby and football have told me that such behaviour is certainly not acceptable within their sports and have sincerely apologised to the Australian Olympic Team.<\/p>\n "The CEOs have undertaken to take the appropriate action and report back to us."<\/p>\n Australian chef de mission Ian Chesterman had already confirmed the men's sevens and rowing teams left a hole in the wall in the athletes accommodation at the Olympic Village.<\/a><\/p>\n "There was a hole in the wall, but that's pretty easy to do," Chesterman said.<\/p>\n "I understand there's some big people and some very flimsy walls, temporary walls as well. I don't think you had to do much to put a hole in the wall."<\/p>\n The Aussie men finished a disappointing seventh in Tokyo after winning just one group game and being shut out 19-0 by gold medallists Fiji in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n "We came to Tokyo with ambitions to perform at our very best as individuals and as a team," coach Tim Walsh said after the tournament.<\/p>\n "We fell short despite our absolute best efforts. It has been a challenge and a privilege to work with Rugby Australia to qualify and prepare the team for the Tokyo Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n "The growth, experience and overcoming of the obstacles we faced will undoubtedly prepare us better for future events. I'd like to thank the people of Japan, the AOC and the IOC for allowing us to play in what I suspect is some of the most challenging conditions the games have faced."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A miserable Olympic Games campaign has got even worse for Australia's men's rugby sevens team. Rugby Australia has begun an internal investigation after the Australian […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110895,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110893\/revisions\/110895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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