‘No Need to Worry About Security,’ Australian Team Chief Tells Olympics Athletes

Australia's Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt compete in the mixed-team curling qualifying tournament for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Eleven Cities Hall, in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, on Dec. 8, 2021. Vincent Jannink/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Australia’s chef de mission for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Geoff Lipshut, said he has no security or safety concerns for athletes competing this February, meaning the team will take no special protective measures such as burner phones.

This comes after Australia joined the ranks of the United States, Britain, and several allies in a diplomatic boycott of the Games to protest human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party.