The Australian mens basketball team have been buoyed by the return of star center Andrew Bogut, who had his first hit out in more than six weeks in the Boomers 82-53 Olympic Games warm-up win against China. Leo Nomellini Jersey .Bogut took straight to the court with his knee heavily strapped against the Chinese and played the first six minutes of the match in a good sign hell be right to participate in the Boomers Olympic campaign.And it didnt take long for the newly minted Dallas Maverick to be in the thick of the action, the 31-year-old remonstrating with Chinas NBA draft pick Qi Zhou for apparently elbowing him in the face.Bogut went on to play nine minutes and finished with three rebounds and an assist.Joe Ingles led the way for the Boomers and looked in fine touch with a game-high 21 points on nine of 12 shooting as well as six rebounds.Coach Andrej Lemanis used 11 players in the Australians final warm-up fixture, though point guard Patty Mills sat out the match.Assistant coach Luc Longley was happy to see Bogut back on court.I think his first game back from an injury is always difficult. Were fairly happy with how he moved, how he looked on the court and will build from that, he said.Former NBA No.1 draft pick Bogut had been under an injury cloud but was named in the Boomers squad for the Games, the Australians desperately seeking his defensive nous and physicality to improve their chances of a maiden mens Olympic basketball medal in Rio.Bogut had sustained a knee injury after a heavy fall during the fifth game of the NBA Finals, in which his Golden State Warriors fell to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and had not played since mid-June.He was subsequently traded to the Mavericks for the 2016-17 season.A championship winner with Golden State, Bogut has spoken little about his injury over the past month, and has instead been in the headlines more for a Twitter feud with Australian womens player Liz Cambage.The Boomers offered up a mixed bag in their past four matches, book-ending the clashes with wins over world No.4 Argentina and China but suffering substantial losses to Brazil and Lithuania.Australias Olympic campaign starts with a match against France on Aug. 6, the U.S. also featuring in their group.Were ready [but] we havent played great yet, Longley said. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The International Olympic Committee calls its president and executives volunteers.They receive no salary but do collect substantial cash handouts: a $250,000-annual allowance for volunteer president, Thomas Bach, and $900 per diems for executives on IOC business.However, when IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Thursday that volunteers are the backbone of the games he wasnt talking about his bosses in the Olympic movement.Theres another variety of volunteers who are the lifeblood of every Olympics -- ones who arent ensconced in the lavish hotels, wined and dined by the great and the good, and enjoying the best seats at any event in Rio.Theyre the people who pay their own way to Rio -- often crossing the globe at great personal expense- while finding and funding their own accommodation.There are no per diems for these volunteers -- just food when they work -- and they fill often thankless roles far away from the sporting action, from manning information desks to driving people around.Its little wonder some dont stick around after collecting the head-to-toe leisurewear uniform. Some 15,000 volunteers a day arent showing up for their unpaid but essential jobs.Of the 50,000 volunteers involved in the delivery of the Olympic Games, we have an average attendance rate of just over 70 percent, Rio organizers told The Associated Press. This number allows us to operate at a comfortable level as some volunteers not showing up was factored into our plans.Organizers scrambled to add another 180 drivers to the workforce on Monday as shortages hit the transport network, Rio Games spokesman Mario Andrada said. It was a paid driver on the media bus that was attacked by stones in Rio, but other drivers are exposing themselves to potential dangers are being paid nothing.Its a risky business relying on a workforce for an event that isnt under coontract. Bernie Casey Jersey. If we have a tough day, Andrada said, next morning some of them dont show up.The IOC could afford to pay volunteers, given the organizations revenue is set to reach $5.6 billion for the four-year period ending in 2016, while sitting on cash reserves of $874 million.But the IOC has stressed its not an issue of setting aside $100 million, for example, to ensure every games worker is paid but preserving the spirit of volunteerism.The IOC said it redistributes more than 90 percent of its income, equating to $3.25 million a day, said Adams, the organizations paid media chief in Rio.And Adams points out: Even the president is an unpaid volunteer of this organization. The IOC members are all unpaid volunteers.But spending three weeks in Rio for pre-games meetings and the Olympics would earn 14 members of the IOC executive board more than $20,000 each. The next tier of regular IOC members can rake in around $10,000 in per diems at an event where so much free food and drink is provided on top of their hotels.The disparity between the IOCs paid volunteers and the volunteers who drive them around and tend to their needs is clear.But games organizers are oversubscribed with willing volunteers, rather than having to beg people to work for nothing.The number of volunteers we have and the great spread of volunteers we have means we cant fund them in that way (like IOC members), Adams said. They get other kind of perks of course and they get the perk of being at the games. ... They get a great deal out of being volunteers and being a member of the Olympic movement for that short period is tremendously rewarding.---Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '