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AOC chief wins defamation suit against Sydney broadcaster
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Australian Olympic Committee, John Coates, president of an action for damages against a broadcaster, the alleged Sydney Coates cover the details of a controversial rowing at the 2004 Olympics. Justice Michael Adams in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Friday Coates awarded 360,000 Australian dollars (US $ 329,000, € 210,000) on the observations of 2GB veteran broadcaster Alan Jones for his program in December 2004. The AOC said in a statement that Jones, a former coach of the Australian rugby team, which will also take place in a bill for the Olympic Committee legal costs. Coates sued for libel after it claimed Coates Jones ordered a coverup of the rowing course of the incident with the eight women in Athens. In the race, one of the Australian team, Sally Robbins, who was arrested near the rowing at the end of the race, which seemed to be exhausted. Robbins was in the same for the races, which previously made headlines and Australian newspapers had synchronized their “capacity of the plant Sally.” Jones said later in his radio programme, which lacked Coates and intimidated rowers to say that at a press conference. A jury took place, shipments were defamatory and, in its judgement Adams said that the emissions Jones were “false". Coates, who are not in court Friday, said he would be “happy to be in court. Assertions Mr. Jones was wrong. They were a flagrant violation of me and the Australian Olympic Committee.” |
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