Liz Cambage determined to move on after race spat
Liz Cambage insists she and Opals teammate Alice Kunek have moved from the āblackfaceā saga, with her immediate focus on overcoming an inflamed Achilles tendon.
Cambage on Tuesday attended her first camp with the Australian womenās basketball team ahead of the Rio Olympics since rupturing her Achilles on the eve of the 2014 world championships.
She was controversially left out of their Rio qualifying series last year after attending a music festival and missed a Games test event in January as she continued her return from injury in China with Shanghai.
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But the 24-year-old admitted the stint took its toll on her body, playing three games a week.
āIām dealing with a bit of tendonitis in my Achilles, so thatās been a little setback,ā she told AAP.
āIāve been playing with it, Iāve been training with it. But we have such good medical staff, great massage, great doctors, great physios, so Iām in good hands.
āWeāll just take it each day as it comes.ā
Cambage has spent recent weeks training in Melbourne alongside Kunek, a month after their very public spat.
The superstar centre expressed her outrage on Twitter after Kunek posted a photo of herself online dressed as Kanye West at an end-of-season WNBL party.
While the pair havenāt spoken about the issue, Cambage said everyone had moved on.
āI donāt feel like thereās a need to talk about it or bring it back up,ā Cambage said.
āItās not a thing. She knows what happened. Sheās learnt from it; a lot of people learnt from it.
āI think weāve all just moved on and basketballās the main focus. Weāre all just doing our thing and training hard.
āWe are having team building sessions this week and Iām sure weāll speak about it then.ā
The use of social media has been forced higher on coach Brendan Joyceās agenda following the incident.
Veteran Suzy Batkovic āĀ who admittedly rarely uses the likes of Twitter, Facebook or Instagram āĀ reckons itās best to avoid them during the Olympics and instead focus on the Games.
But Cambage says itās different for everyone.
āIāve had it since I was like 18, so Iāve been on it for like six years,ā she said.
āIāve always been the type of person that whatever anyone says to me on Twitter, it doesnāt offend me. Like, I donāt even know who you are so why would your opinion affect me in any way?
āI was on it at the (London) Olympics. I guess Iām pretty known for what I can get up to on social media. But I donāt even post that much even more.ā
-AAP
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