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Australian Olympic Committee's John Coates Quiet On Ian Campbell's Gold Push

The Australian Olympic Committee "has refused to comment or offer support as yet for the push to correct past Olympic wrongs and for Australian athletes to be awarded medals" retrospectively, according to Michael Gleeson of THE AGE. AOC President John Coates has said that he will wait for the IAAF "to review the cases of Ian Campbell and Shirley Delahunty before he comments or endorses the application for retrospective medals to correct past injustices." Athletics Australia "has applied for additional medals" -- a gold and a bronze -- to be retrospectively awarded to triple jumper Campbell for an injustice in the fouling of him for his 1980 Moscow Olympics jump and to Delahunty for the fact that photo-finish footage not referred to at the time of her 200m final in '48 revealed she finished third, not fourth. Coates said that "issues such as the application for Campbell were the responsibility of the various sporting bodies' judgment first -- in this case the IAAF -- and only once that sporting body had made a decision would the AOC comment on the merit of the case or consider backing the application for it to be taken to the IOC." This is despite IOC presidential candidates Sergei Bubka and Sebastian Coe "both supporting Campbell's case" (THE AGE, 7/29).

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