Melissa Wu, Matt Wearn, Jess Hull and Zoe Thomson will be the main Australian medal chances ‘early’ on day 11 before attention turns to team sports.
An Australian athlete was denied the chance to compete in taekwondo at the Paris Olympics because of a border dispute involving Australia-based Afghan refugees who were blocked from entering a tiny Pacific nation for a qualifying tournament.Saffron Tambyrajah won the gold medal in the women’s 49kg class at an Oceania qualifying tournament in the Solomon Islands in April – but because she competed against just one rival, World Taekwondo allocated Australia’s quota spot to another nation.
The event was short of competitors only because two refugee athletes had been turned away by Solomon Islands border officials in the country’s capital, Honiara, and sent back to Brisbane.Australian Taekwondo launched a last-ditch appeal just weeks before the Games with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Swiss-based arbitration authority that resolves major disputes.
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