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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nine Australians have been fined about $A4100 each for tampering with their Olympic accreditation but have avoided a conviction and potential jail sentence.But the Australian Olympic Committee says its not the fault of the athletes, saying they are disappointed the group was detained by Brazilian authorities for about 10 hours.However, Australias chef de mission Kitty Chiller says the athletes knew their accreditations had been tampered with ahead of trying to enter an Olympic venue to watch the Boomers basketball semifinal on Friday night.Very disappointed that our athletes had to go through what they did go through last night, Chiller told reporters on Saturday.I think its very important to note that the athletes were definitely not at fault.And we have, and continue to, provide as much support and counselling to them and their parents and that has already commenced.I cant be any more specific at this point in time until we have completed our own investigation.The nine Australians, charged with falsifying a document, have also been placed on a two-year good behaviour bond.They are cyclists Ashlee Ankudinoff and Melissa Hoskins, rugby sevens player Ed Jenkins, archers Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack, rowers Olympia Aldersey, Fiona Albert and Lucy Stephens, and hockey player Simon Orchard.Cyclist Matthew Glaetzer was not charged but was detained as a witness.International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach was told of the incident on Saturday morning.We respect fully here the laws in Brazil and the legal authorities, Bach told reporters.With regard to the Australian swimmers (sic) ... it happened obviously last night, I got only information this morning, I cannot yet comment.Australias Chiller, asked how it could not be the fault of the athletes, replied: I will repeat: We will complete our own internal investigation about how the circumstances arose that the athletes arrived in the venue with accreditations with a different access code to their own.Chiller again repeated the same answer when asked if there were other people involved in the tampering.Stickers were placed over the original accreditations of the athletes.Its unfortunately a practice that has been traditional not only in Australia but other countries as well for many Olympic Games, putting a sticker on your accreditation with another venue access code on it, Chiller said.The athletes must pay the fines - 10,000 reais ($A4100) each - before they are allowed to leave Rio, with their passports surrendered to a Rio court.But the AOC said it would pay the fines and hoped the athletes would be able to leave Rio with the rest of the Australian team on Monday night.The athletes were charged after attempting to gain entry to Olympic venue Carioca 1 for the Australian mens basketball semifinal against Serbia on Friday night. Cheap Custom NHL Jerseys . Calgary scored on the first shift, and Michael Cammalleri scored twice as the Flames cruised to a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals on Saturday. Wholesale Custom Hockey Shirts . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. http://www.nhljerseyscustom.com/ .Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have recalled forward Kevin Porter and defenceman Chad Ruhwedel from the minors as part of a five-player roster shuffle made by the NHLs worst team. Authentic Custom NHL Jerseys . PETERSBURG, Fla. Discount Custom NHL Shirts . Pirlo limped out of Sundays 1-0 win over Udinese after just 13 minutes. Juventus says Pirlo underwent tests on Monday which revealed he has "a second-degree lesion to the collateral medial ligament in his right knee. MIAMI -- Fulton Walker, the first player to score on a kickoff return in a Super Bowl, has died at the age of 58 in his hometown of Martinsburg, West Virginia.The Miami Dolphins said Walker died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack.Walker scored for the Dolphins on a 98-yard kickoff return in Super Bowl XVII in 1983. His touchdown put Miami ahead, but the Washington Redskins rallied to win 27-17. Walkers return is still tied for third-longest in Super Bowl history.dddddddddddd.He played in the NFL from 1981 to 1986 for the Dolphins and Los Angeles Raiders. He led the NFL with a kickoff return average of 26.7 yards in 1983, and with 692 yards in punt returns in 1985.Walker played in college at West Virginia University. ' ' '