Aces star center Liz Cambage has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics and will not play for Team Australia to "take care of myself mentally and physically," she wrote in a statement Friday.
"Anyone that knows me knows one of my biggest dreams is winning an Olympic gold medal with the Opals. Every athlete competing in the Olympic games should be at their mental and physical peak, and at the moment," Cambage wrote. "I'm a long way from where I want and need to be."
The four-time WNBA All-Star wrote that recently she has been "really worried" about heading into a "bubble" Olympics, saying that "it's honestly terrifying" for her and that over the past month she has been having panic attacks, not sleeping and not eating.