What Jackson walked into after Cambage saga

Opals seasoned Lauren Jackson says the Australian squad has moved connected from the Liz Cambage saga up of Thursday's FIBA World Cup opener against France successful Sydney.

The 41-year-old Jackson volition travel disconnected the seat successful the team's archetypal lucifer of the tourney aft a rigorous six-month authorities to escaped the erstwhile WNBA prima of her "retirement body."

Jackson's enactment to play astatine the FIBA World Cup represents 1 of the top comebacks successful Australian sport, aft chronic genu injuries forced her into planetary status successful 2013.

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Cambage decided to measurement distant from the WNBA successful August and besides withdrew from the Opals earlier the Tokyo Games aft she was accused of utilizing a radical slur successful a lukewarm up crippled against Nigeria.

"In presumption of culture, they person been moving hard since their quarter-final nonaccomplishment astatine the Tokyo Olympics and I person ne'er met a squad that is much attuned to each other," Jackson said.

"I americium not definite what happened with the full Liz (Cambage) thing, to beryllium honorable - nary 1 talks astir it and everyone has moved on.

"This is simply a squad that takes attraction of each different disconnected the court, and connected the tribunal it has been physical.

"I was apprehensive walking into that archetypal grooming camp, the girls were from a overmuch younger procreation but they embraced maine from time one."

Why Liz Cambage near Opals

The seven-time WNBA All Star returned to play for NBL1 broadside Albury-Wodonga this year, playing location games astatine a stadium named successful her honour, portion averaging 32 points per crippled successful her archetypal twelvemonth connected tribunal since 2016.

Jackson said her ain quest to get the champion retired of her assemblage during her vocation was not lone derailed by injury, but besides the deficiency of probe astir the pistillate body.

"Female bodies person decidedly suffered owed to deficiency of knowledge," Jackson said.

"The norm for probe has ever been the antheral jock … we haven't seen athletics subject code pistillate issues similar the menstrual rhythm which adds an other furniture of complexity to performance," Jackson said.

"The occupation with this is trying to construe the existing probe - based connected men - to females.

Opals fable Lauren Jackson. (Stefan Postles/Getty Images)

"I've suffered severely from endometriosis my full career; a batch of women bash but we don't speech astir it and we conscionable get connected with it … but I deliberation it's going to beryllium unthinkable erstwhile we travel to understand, accept, and genuinely enactment pistillate athletes.

"That is going to beryllium the infinitesimal for women's sport.

"True equity has galore facets. Visibility is important, resources, facilities … and present research. So, I deliberation there's an statement that we haven't seen immoderate pistillate from immoderate athletics astatine her champion - due to the fact that she hasn't been supported by the science."

Even though she's enactment up awesome numbers successful her instrumentality to the court, the Opals large approached a sports scientist earlier coming back, alert investigating times laic ahead.

"I conjecture it's however you respond to it," she said.

"For me, I've ever had a beauteous affirmative outlook. It's conscionable putting 1 ft successful beforehand of the other.

"It doesn't substance what's happened. You've conscionable got to spell retired determination and support going."

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