Aboriginal Australian Football League (AFL) footballer Adam Goodes holds the Commonwealth Games' Queen's Baton at Farm Cove in Sydney's Botanical Gardens January 26, 2006. REUTERS/Will Burgess
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Adam Goodes, a champion Aboriginal footballer and a former Australian of the Year, has been given time off by his Sydney Swans team after suffering months of jeering from spectators in the country's premier sports competition.
Anti-racism activist Goodes has been booed by crowds for most of this Australian Football League (AFL) season, alarming Aboriginal advocates and shining a spotlight on race relations in a country that sees itself as a beacon of tolerance.
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