The New Zealand Herald

Aussies settle in

- — Agencies

A near-diplomatic incident — as Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes termed it — came to an end yesterday at the Rio Olympics. The Australian delegation gave the mayor a tiny “boxing kangaroo” doll, and now says it’s happy with its rooms at Rio’s Olympic Athletes Village after refusing to check in three days earlier because of water and gas leaks, electrical shorts, malfunctio­ning toilets and general filth.

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