I don't think thousands of athletes getting vaccinated is going to make a material impact on the speed of a rollout where several times that are vaccinated each week.
I fully expect that certainly by the time we get to 2B (if not before) that professional athletes in general may well get priority e.g. footy players, cricketers, netball players etc. The financial impact of any disruption to professional sport is significant.
If that were only the case.
With first hand knowledge of the AOC & its 'modus operandi' - there are typically 3 to 4 non-athletes for every athlete. Some are indeed coaches, physios, sports med etc but the majority are the 'snouts in trough brigade'.
If you ever come across the book by two UK investigative journalists "Lords of the Rings: Money, corruption, politics" (I think those were the three issues highlighted) - BUY it. Virtually nothing has changed since then (as keeps getting revealed every so often).
For example at Sydney 2000, of the 1,600 (I think it was the capacity) seats for Table Tennis (who knew so popular) - 1,586 were reserved for every period for IOC 'snouts' & 14 open to the public lottery. None of those 1.586 were for coaches, physios etc - all for the snouts. Coaches etc were only allowed access to the change rooms.
However given that the Fed Govt has around 500,000 Pfizer doses available for injection but not yet injected before this weeks 130K dose batch - it would only make a difference if the two private sector companies running the Aged & Disability Care rollout actually got their act in order. As of early last week on 35% of Aged care residents had received their 1st dose & under 20% their second. Virtually zero workers.
These were ALL to be vaccinated by Week 6 according to both Hunt & Scomo. That was the Friday before the 35% figure was reached.
There has been no delay in Pfizer deliveries - regular as a Singapore Airlines' weekly A350 flight into Sydney.