Australian Winter Olympics chef de mission Geoff Lipshut holds no security or safety concerns for athletes competing in Beijing this February, allowing the team to take no special preventive measures such as burner phones. This comes after Australia joined the ranks of the United States, Great Britain and several allies in a diplomatic boycott of the Games to protest against human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party. Lipshut said he didn’t expect any safety issues to be upcoming, reasoning that the Olympics would remain one of the safest places in the world for athletes. “I think our first aerial team went there in 2003 or 2004 and we’ve been going back every year since and there haven’t been any issues,” Lipshut said on Jan. 23. “During the Olympic Games, I would expect the IOC to have done a lot of work and…the old saying is if you want …