An elite player has been banned for four games for a homophobic slur against an opponent in a top-flight Australian rules football game, the sixth AFL-listed player suspended for a similar act in the past 16 months. Izak Rankine, who plays for the league-leading Adelaide Crows, admitted directing a homophobic slur to a Collingwood opponent in Adelaide’s three-point win last Saturday. “Izak has said he knew it was not acceptable,” the Australian Football League's general counsel Stephen Meade said Thursday in a statement announcing the ban.
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