Rio de Janeiro: Australian Olympics boss Kitty Chiller has "read the riot act" to Australia's men's sevens players after a drunken night out in Copacabana.
Fairfax Media can confirm some players staggered into the athletes' village around 9am on Saturday, much to the bemusement of team officials.
![Australian players look dejected in defeat after the Men's Rugby Sevens match against Argentina.](/web/20160816182136im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/r/z/v/k/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gqrzs1.png/1471135148008.jpg)
Captain Ed Jenkins, according to sources, had lost his accreditation but eventually found it and was allowed back in. It is understood an annoyed Chiller spoke to sevens team leader Luca Liussa, who was not out drinking with the players but was asked to convey her message to them.
Before these Olympics, Chiller had made a hard and fast rule about no Australians being allowed to drink alcohol in the athletes' village, nor could they be drunk around athletes who were still competing.
![Australian Olympic Team chef de mission Kitty Chiller.](/web/20160816182136im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/h/7/x/f/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.gqrzs1.png/1471135148008.jpg)
She was also particularly concerned about athletes being drunk around Rio de Janeiro late at night, such is the issue with crime in the Olympic city.
"Yes, I read them the riot act," Chiller said when contacted by Fairfax Media on Saturday night.
The Australians were knocked out of the men's draw at these Olympics by South Africa at the quarter-final stage.
No further action is expected to be taken against them, but it serves as a strong warning to the rest of the team as competition ends and the celebration begins.
It also comes as Chiller released tougher security arrangements for all members travelling outside of the Olympic village.
They include the banning of athletes from stepping onto the sand of iconic Ipanema and Copacabana beaches after 6pm, and a warning about wearing team uniform and accreditation in those areas when the sun goes down.
Team officials have already been the victims of petty crime in those areas, targeted no doubt because they were wearing team uniforms.
Chiller would prefer athletes stayed around the Barra area, near the athletes' village and Olympic park, instead of venturing into the party areas of Rio.
While the rugby sevens players have hardly committed the crime of the century, and there is no evidence of misbehaviour, Chiller had to talk tough after making so many noises about discipline before the team left Australia.
In an interview with Fairfax Media on the eve of the Rio Olympics, she said: "I have a zero tolerance for disruptive behaviour. It's not about having no alcohol. Am I going to go out and have a few drinks? Absolutely. It is behaviour as a result of alcohol, of being a dickhead, of being disrespectful.
"It's not about having a breathalyser test. It's a questions of, 'Are you impacting on the performance of other athletes who are yet to compete?'. I don't want to send three people home because they're drunk. If someone gets rolling drunk, and tip-toes down the corridor and goes to bed and sleeps for 12 hours, there's a warning but they won't be sent home.
"I don't want to send someone home every three days."
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