It doesn't really surprise me at all, as a former competitor in the Australian University Games. We were hungover before all of our baseball games (but still won gold!). Sport and partying just go hand-in-hand for Aussies.
In contrast, in 2016 I was on a flight from Madrid to Beijing with about 100 Chinese athletes on their way home from the Rio Olympics. They were very well-behaved, subdued even, but maybe that's because it was a long flight. When we landed the airport was like Beatlemania. I think some of the athletes I was sitting next to on the plane turned out to be megastars in China.
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Shot down in Flames!
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